Sentence examples for setting government from inspiring English sources

A state of emergency was declared in nine provincial areas near Manila, setting government relief efforts in motion.

I don't think it's unreasonable to think that major corporations have a hand in setting government policy today.

Mr. Peterson was eloquent in discussing ambiguity and risk in setting government policies, pointing out, for example, that China eliminated sparrows, only to experience an unexpected increase in crop-eating insects.

Disturbances over rising food prices and chronic unemployment spiraled out from Algiers, the capital, on Thursday, with youths setting government buildings on fire and shouting "Bring us sugar!" Police helicopters circled overhead, and stores closed early.

Yesterday hundreds took to the streets in protest against government increases in the prices of gasoline, cooking gas and heating fuel, blocking roads, setting government buildings on fire and vandalising shops in Maan, Tafila and Karak.

Ralph Reed, Georgia Republican chairman and former executive director of the Christian Coalition, said he hoped that Mr. Racicot's fierce loyalty to Mr. Bush, and the fact that he would not be in the cabinet setting government policy, would satisfy conservatives.

Approved in 2007, the original COMPETES legislation committed the government to providing healthy funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science, while also setting government-wide spending priorities to be coordinated by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Protesters ripped down police shacks and set government buildings alight.

In the months ahead of the party congress, in which the CPC set government agenda for the next five years, an Internet crackdown was carried out.

Ms. McMahon criticized Mr. Blumenthal for supporting an energy bill that would set government limits on emissions of pollutants, calling it an "energy tax" that would hurt consumers.

He had become the most important wool merchant in England, helping to set government trade policies and lending money to the major nobility.