right-wing government
collocation in Englishmeaningsofright-wingandgovernment
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right-wing
adjective
uk/ˌraɪtˈwɪŋ/us/ˌraɪtˈwɪŋ/
supporting the political right and traditional ideas about society; relating to the belief that there should be low taxes, and that property and industry should be ...
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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 ofright-wingandgovernmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In 1993, the newly electedright-winggovernmentreformed the basic pension system for private sector workers only.
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Imposed by aright-winggovernmentsupported by business interests, this decision was strongly contested by labor unions.
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Furthermore, theright-winggovernmentis proposing the merger of hospitals, even though some wards do not have sufficient beds for all the patients and always need to be supplemented.
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Due to the 2005 introduction of the single tax rate by theright-winggovernment, an excessive polarization of society has occurred, as well as an increase in poverty.
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When fighting broke out between the leftist guerrilla movements and theright-winggovernment, journalism became a dangerous profession in the country.
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The entire left-wing boycotted the elections of 1920, which resulted in a right-wing victory and continuedright-winggovernmentfor the inter-war period.
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Critics argued that the policies of the ruling coalition were more right-wing than those of the previousright-winggovernmenthad been.
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Her humanitarian and political sympathies made her the target of an oppressiveright-winggovernment.
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Though it lost significant support in the months before election, the party was leading in polls, as parties ofright-winggovernmentwere highly unpopular.
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They find-as expected-increasing expenditures prior to elections for both left- and right-wing governments, albeit geared to a different clientele.
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In principle, right-wing governments would seem to be ideologically more inclined to privatise than left-wing ones.
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The global spread of the neo-liberal ideology through western right-wing governments and intergovernmental organisations further confirms the belief of local policy-makers in the superiority of the free market doctrine.
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The literature on political economics generally agrees that left-wing and right-wing governments have distinctive preferences regarding the objectives and policies to be pursued once they are in office.
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This has not been a neutral crisis but a crisis inflicted by specific policies, mostly by right-wing governments.
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Interestingly, you only stand up for liberties when in doing so you can attack right-wing governments.
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Unfortunately, numerous right-wing governments have abandoned their policies combating the gender gap, under the pretext of the recession.
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Right-wing governments around the world have had very considerable trouble with public sector deficits.
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The crisis, brought about by financial market players, is being used as an argument by our right-wing governments to call for budgetary cuts, especially in social expenditure.
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The move was widely perceived as a way of cleansing the higher ranks of the officers appointed by previous right-wing governments.
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