Intervention: Government intervention
government intervention (noun)
a. When the government enters into or regulates affairs it normally does not enter into.
b. When the government takes action that affects the economy or a market within the economy, such as buying or selling goods to control prices or regulating the price or supply of goods, or buying and selling foreign currencies to control the value of the currency.
government intervention
active government intervention
massive government intervention
positive government intervention
direct government intervention
minimum government intervention
decisive intervention
a forceful intervention
early intervention
a timely intervention
a successful intervention
an official intervention
central government intervention into Y
government intervention in the exchange markets
government intervention in the economy
government intervention to help the disadvantaged
state intervention
legal intervention
judicial intervention
personal intervention
watched for signs of government intervention in the exchange markets
heavy government intervention aimed at warding off a further crash in prices
a call for intervention
demand intervention
resist intervention
make a forceful intervention in Y
an effective intervention
economic intervention
ministerial intervention
government intervention on behalf of Z
Example sentences:
* "In practice, government intervention may be considered desirable to neutralize short-term disturbances in the exchange markets."
* Speculative investors have watched the deals closely for signs of financial trouble and potential government intervention.
* "The labour party stands for the redistribution of wealth, the maintenance of a national health and social security system, considerable government intervention in the economy and so on."
* "The essence of government intervention has been to limit and distort competition rather than to encourage it, to the detriment of the poorer areas."
* "They demanded development, investment, planning and greater government intervention, not an assault on the capitalist system."
* "Without government intervention, they argued, the future was one of reduced job opportunities, deteriorating housing, and a decline in public services."
* "The critical question remains unanswered: is there an approach, through central government intervention, decentralization, the encouragement of participation, or any other method, which avoids the insensitivities of bureaucratic welfarism, and yet produces results?"
* "Some believe that large scale induced development will not occur without positive government intervention."
* "The success of the project is dependent upon massive government intervention in land reclamation, in transport costs, and in education provision."
* "We believe that active government intervention in the housing market is now urgently needed before things get even worse."
* "Keynesian policies were directed at ensuring full employment and involved government intervention in the running of the economy using demand management techniques."
* There is a need for metropolitan government intervention of a swift and direct kind."
* "The only way the economy can get back on track is by rejecting government intervention, accepting the operations of a market economy, while paying attention to those whom free markets fail."
* "The local council is based on a delicate balance between political restraint and government intervention."
* "Government intervention can influence the demand for a particular nationalized industry's services."
* "The report points to the massive distortions caused to the housing system by government intervention including the effects of the Rent Acts, the subsidization of council house rents, the subsidy to owner-occupiers through mortgage tax reliefs, and planning restrictions on housing land."
* "The programme of motorway building played an important facilitating role, while direct government intervention made a substantial contribution in the form of the Location of Offices Bureau, large-scale slum clearance and the official overspill programme, the latter being expanded in the light of the mid-1960s projections of strong national population growth."
* "Minimum government intervention was the new ideology."
* "The factory legislation and the government intervention in the cause of factory health and safety has resulted in important changes in the role of the state."
* "There have been government efforts to influence the price of land and to curb land speculations, government intervention in the money market, and government manipulation of the costs and benefits of various statuses in the housing market by means of taxation and social security policy."
* Central government intervention into public health, sanitation and housing was cautious in comparison with what the socialist's wanted."
* "The war years were marked by considerable government intervention on behalf of the military effort."
* "They believe that a considerable amount of government intervention is necessary to improve the way the economy works."
* "Government intervention is not the only way to cope with the problem of socially inefficient resource allocation due to externalities."
* "The best that can be hoped for is that government intervention improves the social efficiency of resource allocation, rather than achieving optimality."
* "Treasury does, however, recognise a social dimension to education and recommends government intervention to help the disadvantaged."
* "Trade unions became an important part of the Keynesian revolution which prompted government intervention in the economy to overcome the inability of an unregulated free market economy to grow adequately or to distribute income fairly."
* "At times, Government intervention in the economy is required."
* "An austerity plan combined free-market reforms with strong government intervention in order drastically to reduce inflation and to eliminate a huge federal budget deficit."
* "Despite heavy government intervention aimed at warding off a further crash in prices, trading continued to be nervous."
* "Together with growing evidence of a deepening of the recession in the manufacturing sector, the slide in share prices caused a crisis of confidence in Japan's financial markets and fuelled demands for government intervention."
* "Nineteen factories have closed since then, despite Government intervention."
* "The official said there was little hope of government intervention but said he would be working strenuously to ease the plight of the workers."
* "The difficulty in defining coherent and stable goals has meant that in practice priorities among competing demands on the railways have frequently been established by ad hoc government intervention."
* "Even with greater commercialism and managerial autonomy, government intervention persists, partly because the drive to greater efficiency and economy in the public sector is a political process."
* "A notable example among many of government intervention to avoid a strike occurred in the pay negotiations."
* "Economists who are monetarists assert that the economy without government intervention will not be subject to any inherent instability."
