Sentence examples for precede government from inspiring English sources

Activists say air strikes often precede government ground offensives.

Our Constitution provides for limited majority rule as a means to an end: the protection of individual rights that precede government.

Mr Blair would no doubt blame those on the preceding government and get away with it.

"This government will be spending more on flood defences than any preceding government and we are spending £2.3bn going through to 2021".

Running the great administrative machine of Whitehall, foisting policies on a largely neutered parliament, reversing the executive orders of the preceding government, these are the acts that make up true political success.

While campaigning for prime minister, Trudeau made clear his intentions to reverse the recalcitrant position of Stephen Harper's preceding government, which refused to address legalization even after the Canadian supreme court ended a ban against it in February 2015 and gave government a one-year window to develop regulations.

By contrast, there was no improvement in these scores in the three years preceding government turnover in these countries.

That may be because voters are tired of it: several preceding governments did not last nearly as long as three years.

The preceding governments of the Institutional Revolutionary Party had a cosy arrangement with Mr Castro under which they withheld criticism of him so long as he refrained from backing guerrillas in Mexico.

TODAY'S recommended economics writing: Here's a word about mortgage mods from the New York Fed:Using data on subprime modifications that precede the government's Home Affordable Modification Program, we focus our attention on those modifications in which the borrower was seriously delinquent and the monthly payment was reduced as part of the modification.

Cable says the ultimate mistake preceded joining government.