Sentence examples for pristine government from inspiring English sources

After all, swapping pristine government bonds for dodgier assets lowers the quality of the Fed's balance sheet and $200 billion represents around a quarter of the Fed's asset base.

For all its glittery new buildings — the glass and steel of the Hauptbahnhof railroad station drawing the eye toward the pristine government quarter around the glass-domed Bundestag, or Parliament, and onto the high-rises of Potsdamer Platz — Berlin seems more like a work in progress, a city still striving for a heart, an identity to embrace past and present.

Mullah Omar never graduated, our guide explained, "but we gave him an honorary degree anyway, because he left to do jihad and to create a pristine Islamic government".

Former president Bharrat Jagdeo came up with this unorthodox plan to keep Guyana's rainforest pristine and the Norwegian government has already agreed to participate, paying millions of dollars to Guyana to offset Norway's carbon use.

Requiring farmers to set aside part of their land for natural vegetation looks odd to foreign eyes, used to governments holding pristine land as national parks and letting private owners do as they wish.

Milton Friedman, the apostle of pure unfettered capitalism, sent many of his finest students to Chile for years to spread the message that markets must be allowed to work their pristine logic unhindered by governments.

They set up a local government to protect pristine beaches from commercial development.

Rolling pastures have given way to technology firms, swathes of companies that thrive on government contracts and pristine neighbourhoods with large houses.

Kárahnjúkavirkjun, the largest dam in Europe - a mega project built by the Icelandic government in the pristine east fjords of Iceland to provide Alcoa with cheap electricity for an aluminum smelter.

Those business interests know they can far more easily get their greedy hands on these pristine areas if the federal government is out of the picture and the only people they need to influence are malleable state legislators and timid local officials.

Dozens of parks, biological reserves, and other protected areas have been established in Brazil's vast wildernesses, many of which remain pristine; however, state and federal governments have not adequately maintained many parklands, and some have been modified to allow for new highways or other construction projects.