That's why the government will double the time workers have to wait before they can take a case to an employment tribunal.

At the same time, governments in industrial countries have more than doubled their borrowing to about 4.5 percent of economic output.

When the government almost doubled the land tax, the large landowners refused to pay.

Since 2001 the government has set up seven large reserves and almost doubled the sector of the budget earmarked for environmental protection.

IN the 1980's, the Swedish government doubled its stock transfer tax.

They note that the company's stock price was $43 on the day the government filed its case in May 1998 and has more than doubled since then.

Buying social peace, the government doubled its work force in recent decades.

In June 1968, the government doubled the penalty for the burning of registration cards.

The Iraqi government must double the size of its army, to 300,000 combat troops from 150,000 today.

Then the federal government doubled the area of the Gulf that had been closed to fishing.