Polluting industries have long ministered to their particular public relations problems and sought to delay regulatory action (or outright prohibition) by underwriting studies and reports — and sometimes entire university-based institutes.
In the long haul ministers will get the credit for their successes and blame for what flops.
We haven't got long because ministers have asked for the consultation period to end soon after parliament returns.
For a long time, ministers claimed that anyone who thought the UK was involved in renditions was a conspiracy theorist.
As a result, as long as ministers continue to authorise the agencies' eavesdropping, surveillance, and informant approval, the public will believe there is an unhealthy relationship between them.
Not so long ago, ministers saw the emergence of community-based housing enterprises as a spur for a short-lived volunteering initiative championed by David Cameron.
"The aviation industry has been selling our environment down the river for far too long - ministers must say 'no' to airport expansion and the climate devastation it would bring," spokesman Paul de Zylva said.
"The aviation industry has been selling our environment down the river for far too long - ministers must say 'no' to airport expansion and the climate devastation it would bring".
The prime minister, Meles Zenawi, has replaced several long-serving ministers with younger men.
"You will not have to wait long," Foreign Minister Igor S. Ivanov warned in a statement to an American television network.
But he has been hit by a lobbying scandal and a bungled cabinet shuffle, which saw two of his most popular, long-serving ministers quit.
