successive government
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsuccessiveandgovernment
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successive
adjective[before noun]
uk/səkˈses.ɪv/us/səkˈses.ɪv/
happening one after the other without ...
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government
noun
uk/ˈɡʌv.ən.mənt/us/ˈɡʌv.ɚn.mənt/
the group of people who officially control ...
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(Definition ofsuccessiveandgovernmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It has also outlined howsuccessivegovernmentpolicies have been directed towards both consolidating this policy and ensuring it is implemented as widely as possible.
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The wide-ranging debate largely consisted ofsuccessivegovernmentcave-ins to the brewing interests.
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Successivegovernment; should take credit for that development.
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He was later recalled by thesuccessivegovernment.
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Successivegovernmentacts trimmed their property to 345,000 acres (1,400 km).
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Thesuccessivegovernmentinitiated a massive carbon-capture project.
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In order to do this, rival factions worked with successive governments to purge their enemies from their town councils.
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Successive governments (usually from the technocratic ministries) announced plans to push for market-oriented changes.
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Instead, successive governments have tried to cool down tempers and resolve the issues at stake at the local level.
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Despite successive governments' remarkable ability to enact and implement sweeping changes, the promised payoff in improved economic welfare was slow to materialize.
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The effects of the science policies of successive governments are there for all to see and should not make comfortable reading for the policy-makers involved.
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In the meantime, successive governments continued the policy of overvaluing the cedi.
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More generally, are social care markets structured in a way that will generate the efficiency improvements that successive governments expect of them?
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The first law of amnesty for already built gecekondu (shacks built "overnight") enacted in 194950 was followed by similar pieces of legislation under successive governments.
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Successive governments appointed in the 1980s failed to respond to the early stages of crisis much past rhetoric.
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Successive governments responded with import controls, which fell disproportionately on consumer goods.
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In addition, youth unemployment was given a high priority in employment policies under successive governments.
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Constraints on treatments are largely absent, and successive governments have struggled unsuccessfully to control health care expenditures.
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Five successive governments rose and fell in less than a decade.
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If all that was true in the relations between government and the broader society, it was even truer of relations within successive governments, of both political persuasions.
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