Sentences with phrase «smaller governments often»

Smaller governments often mean that decision - makers are easier to find and speak with one on one.

Not exact matches

The Canadian Medical Association, argued in its pre-budget submission that the government should maintain access to the small business deduction for physicians, since they enter the workforce later in life and often with significant debt, and unlike small businesses are unable to pass on higher costs to clients.

This makes a DUNS number invaluable for many small businesses, since government contracts are often stable, lucrative sources of income.

At a higher, almost philosophical level, the government wants to disrupt the long - standing mechanics that enable a small business to both get through challenging times without resorting to layoffs or bankruptcy, and then reap their rewards during those precious, and often short, «good years.»

While government workers have gold - plated pensions often starting at age 55 and many employed Canadians have employer - matched RRSPs, the small business owner is counting on the value of the business — including any investments owned by the corporation — for his or her retirement.

FHA loans are government - insured mortgages that make sense for people with lower credit scores and smaller down payments, but they often don't let you borrow as much as conventional home loans.

Abortion, however, reveals, maybe better than any other issue, the brazen disingenuousness of such small - government posturing, and the convenient faux libertarianism often espoused by leftist proponents of greater centralized bureaucracy.

The government often serves as the mediator in this transaction by taxing the rich, and then running the money through a vast array of bureaucracies until eventually, a small portion of what was given finally makes it to the nameless masses of poor people, many of whom do not even need the aid, are taking advantage of the system, or could otherwise work but choose not to.

The bargaining process often sees businesses taking some steps to appease government and public demands, such as putting labels on food, but not ones that communicate clearly and effectively, or a voluntary (and small) reduction in television advertising of junk food to children.

Conservative MPs are currently rebelling less often than Labour MPs (in around 11 % of divisions in the first three sessions of the 2005 parliament, less than half the rate on the government benches) and they are doing so in smaller numbers; although a slightly larger proportion of Conservative parliamentarians has rebelled compared to Labour, few have cast more than a handful of dissenting votes, and even the most rebellious would not find themselves high up the PLP's league table of troublemakers.

Proportional representation often results in smaller parties enjoying disproportionate power as the big boys struggle to form a majority, and this may in turn result in less stable government.

Supporters also argue that electoral systems using proportional representation (PR) often enable smaller parties to become decisive in Parliament, thus gaining a power of leverage against the Government.

Though pension costs are often only a small part of local governments» total budgets - 5 percent in Suffolk this year and 3.7 percent in Nassau - they're a growing burden, officials said.

After independence in 1960, voters from the smaller English - speaking zone opted to join Cameroon rather than neighbouring Nigeria, but they have often felt marginalised by the Francophone government in Yaounde.

There is a need for such oversight, they said, because conflicts of interest are often an issue in small communities where nepotism can run rampant in government hiring.

This borough's 16,429 small businesses employ 66,300 New Yorkers, but as my Red Tape Commission found, too often government has been a barrier to success, rather than a partner in growth,» New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer said.

«The reason is because some local government officials are investing in those small coal mining companies,» he said, adding that the collusion of the local government and small coal miners thwarts Beijing's efforts to shut down the low - tech coal companies whose operations often harm the environment.

We have no particular concern with the federal government — or philanthropists and venture capitalists, big and small — helping to pay for those activities, as has been done so often in the past.

Many shun curriculum because content choices are often culture - war battles writ small and because government - mandated curriculum smacks of totalitarian regimes and brainwashing of kids.

While students, small businesses, and independent researchers are expected to be the major consumers of these mountains of content, this is a bold first move in helping civic leaders, publishers, and citizens see the value of open access, an often hotly contested topic especially where government funded and published research findings are concerned.

FHA loans are government - insured mortgages that make sense for people with lower credit scores and smaller down payments, but they often don't let you borrow as much as conventional home loans.

The challenge that governments and financial institutions face when looking to expand SME credit is that often these loan amounts are too small for creditors to earn enough, especially if they have a costly originations process.

The stress on shelter staff is significant: no room to put ever more dogs; having to euthanize dogs to make room for new dogs; performing triage on sick animals when space is limited; having to make hard choices about evening and weekend heating and lighting with a small budget; no veterinarian or vet tech on the staff; no evening or weekend staff; no time to network adoptable animals; no available homes in the surrounding communities; inadequate transport vehicles; little or no support from local government; an Animal Control Officer often doing double duty, responsible also for managing the shelter; counties lacking even a shelter or inside kenneling.

More often than not, even small ships fly the Dutch tricolour, and many vessels can be identified as naval or one of the many other government ships.

Regardless, recent changes have been too small to even notice and are often less than the government's estimates of uncertainty in the measurements.

In infrastructure history, the take - off phase has often accelerated when new technologies moved out of large corporate and government settings for adoption by individuals and smaller businesses.

Ken, Virtually everybody who needs legal services for real estate transactions (because you either own or are able to buy an asset worth hundreds of thousands of dollars), wills (because you have assets), powers of attorney (usually ditto), estates (ditto), notarizations, incorporations and small business transactions (because you have the wherewithal to be starting, buying or selling a business) can easily afford the very modest fees charged for those services (fees that are less than and often far, far less than, as applicable, the government charges, the realtor charges, the accountant's charges, the moving van company, the new appliances, etc. etc. etc.).

If that was not enough, the Government has placed a rule that in Small Claims Court you can not seek a declaration so ICBC often tries to stymie due process by arguing that the Small Claims Court has no jurisdiction to consider the insurance breach issue because it's a declaration of insurance.

The initial outlay of hiring an apprentice is often smaller than many companies think as a result of government funding and the fact that they are paid a smaller wage.