Chinese banks, acting mainly as policy arms of the government, poured loans into economically inefficient projects.
Apparently in exasperation, President Jonathan said last year that Boko Haram members or sympathisers had penetrated into all arms of the government.
Similar lawsuits challenging other arms of the government are likely.
Tim Otty QC, for the former detainees, told the court that an additional document, also just disclosed, raised questions about Downing Street's involvement in the case of Martin Mubanga, one of the men suing various arms of the government.
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Yet it probably commands more public respect than either of the other arms of government: the presidency and the Congress.
Google's relations with some arms of the Chinese government have remained rocky.
In a key change, the inspector general would be housed within the city's existing Department of Investigation, which acts as an inspector general for many other arms of the city government, Quinn said.
But it is hard to see how arms of the central government, particularly the State Planning Commission and the Ministry of Finance, will resist securing a say in the destiny of many transferred enterprises at least until someone has carried out the giant task of auditing these companies to get the full measure of their mismanagement and value.
Three MPs who are also members of the Southern Movement are being pushed into the arms of the southern alliance by the government.
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In each case, the main challenge for the Treasury is political to nudge the other arms of government gently in the desired direction, and in any event take the credit if things go well.
In the letter, the foreign secretary makes its clear that the UK has made no decision about the future of the arms embargo but restates the government's view that it may need to be amended, or even lifted, in the event of a "grave deterioration" in conditions or a specific incident.
Another concern expressed by Sir Richard was about the lack of openness on the part of the government over arms sales.
Secretary of State John Kerry, on a surprise one-day visit to Baghdad, pressed Iraqi officials Sunday to cut off the flow of Iranian arms to the Syrian government and warned that future American aid to Iraq could be at risk if it doesn't.
To be sure, the utterly addled idea of ridding the planet of nuclear arms has been a rhetorical goal of the U.S. government for some time.
This is the story of how the British Government agreed to an arms sale which they thought could breach the European Code of Conduct, the cornerstone of their policy.
Government should not be in the business of cronyism and theft, and liberals should be up in arms when government enriches private corporations at the expense of ordinary citizens.
The College of Arms said nothing could be done because the edict was part of the Local Government Act of 1972.
In the meantime, our Ambassador, General Eikenberry, is working every day, pushing the Afghan government to step up its efforts to tackle corruption, and devise a plan of reintegration for the portion of the Taliban that is ready to lay down its arms and join the government.
One of the things I emphasized to President Karzai, however, is, is that the incentives for the Taliban to lay down arms, or at least portions of the Taliban to lay down arms, and make peace with the Afghan government in part depends on our effectiveness in breaking their momentum militarily.
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No one knows how the Islamists would treat minorities if they controlled both arms of government, or how they would revamp the judiciary.
Israeli law prohibits government officials from undermining the lawful functioning of both elected arms of government.
While the government moves to rid the streets of arms, experts say it now needs to move with alacrity to amend terms for energy sector contracts.
Labour MP Barry Gardiner - a long-time campaigner for greater regulation of the arms trade - said the government's position was "neither morally right nor politically astute".
Syrian state media reported that "a number of terrorists" had been killed when government forces captured a cache of arms and ammunition in the area.
He questions whether the Founding Fathers would have welcomed the idea of people taking up arms against their newly hatched constitutional government instead of using governmental procedure to settle differences, which sometimes is referred to as the "ballots vs. bullets" debate.
On Wednesday the UN Security Council, which had been accused of inaction, called on the Tamil Tigers to lay down their arms and urged the Sri Lankan government to allow international aid agencies into areas of need.
The government in Delhi is greatly irritated by western talk of an arms race on the subcontinent.
The suspension of international financial aid starved Mr Aristide's government of cash, driving it ever further into the arms of the drug dealers.
If too many voters are scared into Coalition's arms, Mr Klaus may be cut out of the next government and so of any chance of the presidency.
But they should also show restraint and not "bring themselves into conflict unnecessarily with other arms of government" unless they had to in the court case before them, he argued.
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