• It aims to make provision for Northern Ireland corresponding to the Westminster Pensions Act 2011.

    BBC: Pensions Bill - Consideration stage continued

  • Nelson McCausland was speaking on the bill's second stage which aimed to make provision for Northern Ireland corresponding to the Westminster Pensions Act 2011.

    BBC: Pensions Bill

  • The Welsh government has advised all local authorities to assess the housing needs of Gypsies and Travellers and make provision for sites where needed.

    BBC: Travellers caravans (generic)

  • It will also make provision for pension-sharing on divorce and introduce stake-holder pension schemes, offering a new, flexible and good value alternative form of pension.

    BBC: The Queen's speech in full

  • While swine flu was mild, a severe event could still occur at any point, and the department continues to make provision for this in its communications planning.

    BBC: Pandemic flu advert revealed by Department of Health

  • The government has published new planning advice to councils, the National Planning Policy Framework, telling them to make provision for more development and give more permission for new developments.

    BBC: Fears for green field sites with latest planning advice

  • Ministers want more pupils with special needs to enter mainstream education, and the Education Department says the proposed code would allow more flexibility to tailor-make provision to suit individual children's needs.

    BBC: Corbett's fears for dyslexic pupils

  • As for provision for military and other federal government employees, it seems to me that the federal government should make proper provision for them, just as a private employer should make proper provision.

    FORBES: There is No Cumulative Safety Net for the Armed Services

  • The important point is that the stress tests forced banks to make provision for losses on their loans to distressed nations, such as Greece, from a change in the terms of those loans that would fall short of actual default.

    BBC: Stress-test message to banks: Prepare for possible Greek default - BBC News

  • The result of Mr Darling's announcement is that about two-thirds of all UK companies will be exempt from the scheme, which is designed to offer a simple no-frills way for lower-paid workers to make provision for their retirement.

    BBC: Small firms exempt from stakeholder pension

  • It is therefore not surprising that whether to make provision for impeachment of the president became the focus of contention, especially in the context of concern whether, in our new republican form of government, the legislator ought to be entrusted with such a power.

    CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement

  • However the law is different in Scotland where councils have to make adequate provision for sport.

    BBC: Local councils cutting sports facilities - BBC survey

  • This private member's bill is designed to make greater provision for the support of the armed forces and their families.

    BBC: OFMDFM Committee

  • The health ministry says the plan upsets the ministry's own proposals for nursing-care insurance, which make no provision for foreign workers.

    ECONOMIST: Immigration in Japan

  • Prolonged economic growth tends to make people assume that future generations too will grow richer, and hence to make less provision for them.

    ECONOMIST: Social change

  • The Sainsbury family, which holds 18% of Sainsbury's shares, is expected to reject any bid that does not make proper provision for the pension fund.

    BBC: Justin King

  • Nor is there any reason why the state should not help to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance in providing for those common hazards of life against which few can make adequate provision.

    ECONOMIST: Daily chart

  • The health service plan was a ten year plan from July 2000 and you know we've got to make sure that we make whatever provision we can from whatever quarter we can to get the service better.

    BBC: News | BREAKFAST WITH FROST | Interview with Prime Minister Tony Blair

  • "It is open to the individual state, to make statutory provision for the imposition of a whole life minimum term, and in an appropriate case, as a matter of judicial discretion, for the court to make such an order, " he said.

    BBC: Whole life prison terms upheld by Court of Appeal

  • The struggle to make the provision of basic education in the United States more equitable has been an important domestic political issue since the civil rights and anti-poverty movements of the 1960s, and it was reinforced by a school finance reform movement that emerged in the early 1970s.

    UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

  • We believe that all small states of the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and South Pacific can now make some concrete provision against natural disaster to which global warming may sadly make them even more vulnerable.

    ECONOMIST: Trial by jury

  • The shadow minister regretted that the legislation "does not make any specific provision for costs or striking out claims".

    BBC: Defamation Bill

  • "As the change affects the requirement for statutory minimum increases, schemes may continue to make more generous provision, " it added.

    BBC: Pension changes 'are a nightmare', experts warn

  • His second-biggest was to make no proper provision for restoring order afterwards.

    ECONOMIST: George Bush is a fool for keeping Donald Rumsfeld in his job

  • Later, the government was defeated a second time when peers backed a move requiring contracts made with probation trusts to make "appropriate provision for the delivery of services to female offenders".

    BBC: Government suffers two defeats over Crime and Courts Bill

  • Critics have said this last provision would make it less costly for lenders to foreclose.

    FORBES: Rescuing Main Street

  • The legislation would strengthen taxpayers' rights in disputes with the IRS. One provision would make it easier for taxpayers to prove their case in court.

    CNN: AllPolitics - Republicans Gleeful At White House Switch

  • Chief fire officer Simon Pilling said the county's fire authority was likely to face budget cuts up to 2020 and had to make long-term provision to reshape fire cover.

    BBC: A fire engine leaving a fire station

  • Mulally traveled Wednesday to Washington, where he pressed U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and the Obama administration to make sure that a provision to eliminate U.S. tariffs on imported Korean cars was accompanied by countermeasures that would increase access to the Korean auto market for American companies.

    FORBES: Alan Mulally's New Ford Focus: Korean Free Trade

  • Unfortunately, as with many tax goodies, there's a provision designed to make sure folks who earn too much don't benefit.

    FORBES: Conversion Time

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