The government's inability to stem the wave of violence led President Goodluck Jonathan to fire his defense minister and national security adviser on Friday.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday began the most ambitious effort since the 1930s to help troubled homeowners, offering lenders and borrowers big incentives and subsidies to try to stem the wave of foreclosures.
The row has pitted the renewable lobby against Spain's three biggest utilities – Iberdrola, Endesa and Gas Natural – which have been urging the government to take action to stem the wave of subsidised renewable projects being built, particularly solar ones.
Yesterday, less than 48 hours after the Home Office unveiled new measures to stem the wave of stabbings on Britain's streets, friends of Knox described how they struggled to hold down the attacker, who was carrying two knives, until the police arrived.
At the same time, in close co-ordination with Egypt, Israel is offering to ease the blockade of Gaza, drastically reducing the list of goods it refuses to let into the territory.These measures, the Israeli government believes, may stem the wave of international opprobrium that swept over the Jewish state following the ship incident, in which nine Turkish civilians died.
In the past month, the government has offered various promises and initiatives to stem the wave of popular discontent sweeping the country and the region, but the impact of these gestures has been blunted by the fact that a comprehensive 10-year National Agenda for reform has existed, in theory, since 2006.
The local, regional, and state governments engaged in planning changes to the electricity system felt strengthened, but the federal government and the incumbent energy providers actually tried to stem the wave of decentralization.
Turkey and the EU agreed to a landmark deal last month that aims to stem the wave of migrants crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece in hopes of finding safety and a brighter economic future in Europe.
The rise in poaching -- with rhinos even being killed inside the heavily guarded Kenyan capital's national park -- show that poachers have little fear of tough new laws designed to stem the wave of of killings.
