Sentences with phrase «aid cuts through»

Matt Foot, solicitor at Birnberg Peirce, won Legal Champion for his campaign against legal aid cuts through the Justice Alliance.

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«Societies rise and fall on trust; that is the currency of development and when we enter into trust - deficient communities and engage through tactics that further erode trust all in the name of bringing Jesus, democracy, gospel, development, aid, help, whatever, we cut off our nose to spite our face.

We have arrived at a point where we desperately need the aid of some rudimentary principles (let's call them «postulates») that enable us to cut through the underbrush, refocus mission and move forward.

Allow to cool on a wire rack, then remove to a cutting board and when it's completely cooled, cut lengthwise through the middle with the aid of a serrated knife.

I go through a box of princess band - aids almost once a month... most of them are for my daughters - but I swear I get more cuts when I have them around too.

Some observers, including the editorial staff of the Saudi Gazette, have expressed sympathy for Egypt's position, stressing Cairo's need to defend its territory from Islamist militants: «Egypt's curbs on movement through its crossing with the Gaza Strip is a security decision that had to be taken even though it has cut off imports of medicine and aid to the impoverished coastal enclave... Egypt had no other recourse but to seal the tunnels although it is not a decision without physical and political risks.

Government plans set for April will cut # 220 million from the # 2 billion annual legal aid budget, predominantly through a 30 % reduction in fees for complex, high - cost cases and an 18 % cut in fees for other crown court work.

Lawmakers said they were still working out exactly how school aid would be distributed; Heastie said there was yet not a deal over how much money would flow through the Foundation Aid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardeaid would be distributed; Heastie said there was yet not a deal over how much money would flow through the Foundation Aid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardeAid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardest.

But Syracuse thus far has avoided a crisis, in part through cost cutting and an extra $ 21 million in state aid in 2012.

The 2016 - 17 budget included a roughly $ 1.4 billion increase in school aid — including all aid categories, a $ 627 million increase in Foundation Aid, and $ 434 million to restore recession - era cuts put in place to help fill the state's revenue shortfall through the gap elimination adjustment (GEA) formuaid — including all aid categories, a $ 627 million increase in Foundation Aid, and $ 434 million to restore recession - era cuts put in place to help fill the state's revenue shortfall through the gap elimination adjustment (GEA) formuaid categories, a $ 627 million increase in Foundation Aid, and $ 434 million to restore recession - era cuts put in place to help fill the state's revenue shortfall through the gap elimination adjustment (GEA) formuAid, and $ 434 million to restore recession - era cuts put in place to help fill the state's revenue shortfall through the gap elimination adjustment (GEA) formula.

Amid a fiscal crisis, taxes rose, and school aid was cut through a program called the Gap Elimination Adjustment that focused most on wealthier, suburban districts generally represented by Republicans.

Isn't there ANY independent, honest, and believable source of analysis that can cut through all this hooha and simply lay out the truth about the impact of state aid to education and proposed school budget cuts??

Paonessa favors cutting the state workforce through attrition and doing away with some business incentives that he considers corporate welfare, such as the $ 22 million in aid that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy gave the Bridgewater hedge fund this year.

In addition to scrapping the Common Core, Hawkins would improve schools by restoring aid cut during the state's economic downturn, encouraging desegregation through voluntary interdistrict transfers and returning curriculum decisions to local school boards.

Aid to localities in the budget was cut through the «gap elimination adjustment» (GEA), a program passed by the Legislature in 2010 to reduce and eventually eliminate the state's deficit.

The budget closes a $ 10 billion state budget deficit by cutting the state workforce by 9,800 (mostly through attrition), closing several prisons, and significantly reducing aid to public schools, colleges and Medicaid programs.

A spokesman for the Traditional Healers Association of South Africa said that the sangomas feared contracting AIDS through their frequent treatment of patients by cutting skin (to release evil) and rubbing powders into the wounds.

Unlike most hearing aids, which fail to cut through the background noise, Miles» devices allow a user to home in on specific sounds and conversations by copying the presternum's design.

MHRP is dedicated to bringing about an AIDS - free future through cutting - edge research aimed at developing a globally effective HIV vaccine and discovering therapies that can lead to long - term HIV remission.

I recommend it to patients — and use it myself daily — as a digestive aid to cut through sluggish bowel movements.

Emergency fiscal aid from the federal government helped prevent even deeper cuts but ran out before the economy recovered, and states chose to address their budget shortfalls disproportionately through spending cuts rather than a more balanced mix of service cuts and revenue increases.

While offering undergraduate students more Pell aid, the administration is proposing to cut federal work - study funds that help students work their way through college by $ 487 million.

Walker's policies pushed through the largest cuts to school aid in state history and the largest per pupil cuts in the country in 2011 - 2012.

For the purposes of this comparison of the levies anticipated in the Partnership Plan and the actual / preliminary levies for the period covering the 2009 - 10 through 2011 - 12 budgets, what is most important is that while cutting general school aids for the years 2009 - 10 and 2010 - 11, the Democrats increased the Levy Credits and that the Republicans in power have maintained these increases.

The «Air Breather» aerodynamic aids behind the front wheel arches are present, as is a rising swage line that cuts through both door handles and terminates just before meeting the wraparound taillights.

What is different though is rather than just have a horde players must cut through in rounds, they instead need to defend various objectives like a drill or helicopter that is aiding in their goal of eliminating the enemy species.

Nobody, but nobody, could cop attitude like Clyfford Still (1904 — 80): «I held it imperative to evolve an instrument of thought which would aid in cutting through all cultural opiates, past and present, so that a direct, immediate, and truly free vision could be achieved.»

The human brain is an amazing pattern recognition device which can generally, sometimes with the aid of some basic filtering / smoothing, cut through the clutter and identify what is truly happening.

Lord Bach makes the important point that the rule of law and legal rights do not mean much unless citizens are able, through the legal system, to have them upheld, and that cuts to legal aid have made that impossible for many, especially the most vulnerable in society.

Criminal legal aid practitioners are furious, as most are feeling the impact of the reducing numbers of cases going through the system and can see no justification for the cuts.

He said that he believes cuts to legal aid may have been a false economy because the rise in litigants in person means that judges have to spend time helping litigants through a case.

The meeting took place against the backdrop of the uproar concerning further cuts to the legal aid fees paid to practitioners following the recent additions to the Advocates» Graduated Fee Scheme («AGFS»), a matter which naturally made its way into the conversation through constructive questions and statements.

What is fundamentally different between the implementation of Woolf and Jackson is that the reforms in the Woolf era provided a cut in access for claimants through legal aid but greater privately funded access through conditional fees.

Against the backdrop of cuts in legal aid and local authority spending on legal advice, the profession attempts to facilitate access to justice; most notably through pro bono work which assists many individuals who would, without it, ultimately, be deprived of access to justice.

However, with free legal advice centres having to fight harder to secure funding while legal aid budgets are coming under continued pressure, there are concerns that many people who have been disadvantaged by cuts will be unable to assert their rights through legal action.

A study carried out by The Times last year showed that around 40 % of people have stopped using lawyers in their divorce, this is largely due to the cuts in legal aid and people going through amicable divorces looking to save money and time.

Our members have appeared in many of the leading cases in this area, from the swaps litigation of the 1990s, through the claims arising out the collapse of the Icelandic banking system, to current challenges to Government sanctions and legal aid cut decisions.

Giving the lead judgment, Lord Sumption acknowledged that although litigants in person are often representing themselves through no choice of their own due to the well - publicised stringent cuts in legal aid over the last eight years, whilst the Court may be able to make allowances in respect of case management decisions, a lower standard of compliance with Civil Procedure Rules or Orders of the Court could not be justified.

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They've tried to cut funding in every way possible: by illegally preventing Planned Parenthood health centers from serving patients enrolled in Medicaid, or serving patients through essential programs such as Title X, and they've also gone after our participation in specific initiatives like the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program; the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); the Minority AIDS Initiative; and STI prevention programs.