So the government decided to preclude future problems with its drastic decision to end the live-chicken trade.
Consider what happened in South Africa after the government decided to be strict about enforcing minimum wages.
Earlier this year the government decided to intervene and try to bring the children back to India.
Here, a look at some of the reasons the government decided to act and the implications for taxpayers.
In December, the government decided to build the trail down the hill, over Trail Creek and around the trestle.
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What seems more likely is that, in consultation with the Americans, the government decided to prevent further disclosures of intelligence.
Never in the history of the United States has the government decided to shut down an entire industry for six months.
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The government decided to retire the HMS Ark Royal and its fleet of Harrier jump jets in 2011, five years early.
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For example, the government decided to extend the earnings period used as the basis for calculating pensions from 15 to 40 years.
The government decided to do something about it in 2010 and put in place a number of restrictive policies that prohibited speculation.
On top of that, the government decided to provide generous incentives to companies or people who built wind-turbines or installed solar panels.
Then in 2003 the government decided to make a payment to those with hepatitis C but those who died before 2003 weren't eligible.
If there were one, Rick Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors, would not have been fired when the government decided to take over his company.
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Well-known groups like Ketageta(ph) were mixing jazz with Afro-Cuban rhythms, so the government decided to host an annual jazz festival, which drew crowds from all over the world.
In late 2011, the government decided to cut fuel subsidies.
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As part of its defence spending review in 2010, the government decided to "mothball" one of the two aircraft carriers, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Queen Elizabeth, ordered by Labour.
Less than three weeks ago the city council said it would consider taking legal action if the government decided to axe the super-casino, a move Sir Richard has refused to rule out.
At the time Mr Conti was shocked that the government decided to sell, at the top end of the price range, more than 30% of Enel, instead of the 20% originally planned.
There's also the question of those who had already invested in solar schemes - in the reasonable expectation of benefiting from the Feed-in Tariff - before the government decided to change the rules.
How times have changed: it was only ten years ago that the government decided to block the extradition of Augusto Pinochet, a former Chilean dictator, on the grounds of his supposed ill health.
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On February 8th, despite much spluttered outrage from ministers at the farmers' antics, the government decided to meet their demands half way, offering to buy 50, 000 tonnes of their pork at a decent price.
When the government decided to offer new shares, some of them were bought by Mr Tan direct, and the rest were acquired by four special-purpose companies that were financed, it turns out, by loans from banks linked to Mr Tan.
When the government decided to replace the Post Office Department with the U.S. Postal Service in 1971, it exchanged a taxpayer-dependent bureaucracy with a government-owned business that was supposed to rely on the sale of postage, mail products, and services for revenue.
This week, after the Japanese yen had surged to a fifteen-year high against the U.S. dollar, the Japanese government decided to intervene in the foreign exchange markets.
Speaking to the Commons environment, transport and regions committee, Environment Minister Michael Meacher denied the government had decided to delay the measure until after a general election.
The Welsh government decided to allocate the money to improve school buildings and create apprenticeships as part of a budget deal with the Welsh Liberal Democrats.
Yet it is likely that the interim government decided to take the gamble because it believes that the high court and Congress, which both voted overwhelmingly to strip Mr. Zelaya of the office, will stand strong.
The Indian home minister said the government had decided to send the victim overseas on the recommendation of her doctors.
In March, Health Minister Norman Lamb announced that the government had decided to amend the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) Regulations.
India's Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said in a statement said the government had decided to send the victim overseas on the recommendation of her doctors.
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