Sentences with phrase «as a burden on»

If we introduce euthanasia / PAS as a legal, medical option, would we risk discriminating against vulnerable groups — such as those with AIDS, Alzheimer's or spinal cord injuries — that are perceived as burdens on the system and on society?

We've forgotten that the Babylonians» gods were heavy idols that had to be trucked around, «These things you carry,» Isaiah jabbed, «are loaded as burdens on weary animals» (Isa.

In the email, he also pointed to the paid family leave bill as another burden on businesses.

The government thus claims to protect the interests of the demos over non-citizens, who are described as a burden on the Canadian system.

This is absolutely wrong and would remain as a burden on you forever.

Ned, the guileless ne» - er - do - well brother, is seen as a burden on his three more mature sisters, but in fact is far more happy and less stressed than they, with their relationship problems and other adult woes, are.

Domestic employment laws originating from the EU legislature, such as the much vilified Working Time Directive, have often been described as a burden on business, inflexible, uncompetitive and inefficient.

Following that assertion, Aboriginal title is conceived of as a burden on the Crown's underlying title.

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It can help lessen the burden on your loved ones because they aren't guessing as to what you'd want done, Florian said.

Immigration policy, from potential burdens of reporting and verification to visa needs for highly skilled positions, are also critical to small business owners, as is Dodd - Frank's impact on lending to small business.

Pharmaceutical giant Valeant (vrx) earned some reprieve Tuesday, with shares of the company rising as much as 15 % on news that it had moved to ease its troubling debt burden.

While it's not as generous as taking the grant approach, it does eliminate the tax burden on the employee and it means any gains are taxed at a long - term rate depending on the holding period.

Not only do our developers have to adapt to changing processes, this demand also increases the burden on existing infrastructure as well as challenges IT professionals to manage more devices and wireless activity.

As a result, the entire burden of funding education in Manitoba will fall on working - age taxpayers.

With April 18 nearly upon us, make sure you're up to speed on any credits you may be able to claim, as that could make a serious dent in your tax burden or even result in the IRS writing you a nice check.

Remember, though, individual tax rates have generally gone down as of Jan. 1 and a new 20 percent deduction on certain income for small businesses (which includes solo workers) could reduce your tax burden even further.

«These freelancers come on board as subcontractors and save the small business owner the burden of paying overhead associated with payroll taxes and expenses such as health insurance and worker's compensation, as well as the space constrictions that growing a company in - house can present.»

But at the same time, we have prices at the pump rising out of control, the burdens of insurance costs (which also keep going up), as well as complicated taxes, and you can see why small business owners continue to proceed with caution on hiring.

Road warriors and companies that don't want to take on the burden of buying videoconferencing equipment themselves can rent videoconferencing rooms by the hour at FedEx Office, formerly known as FedEx Kinko's.

«My reputation as a high - profile philanthropist will, I hope, give some pressure to other rich people,» Chen explains, before adding that the pressure on him is a burden.

The smaller burden of red tape required for WTO rates, which still involves forms but nothing as complicated on rules of origin, can deliver real cost savings, says Mathew Wilson, a senior vice-president at Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters who helps advise Canadian NAFTA negotiators.

Jan 5 - Neiman Marcus Group Ltd on Friday named Geoffroy van Raemdonck, an executive at upscale clothing manufacturer Ralph Lauren Corp, to succeed Karen Katz as chief executive officer of the debt - burdened luxury retailer next month.

«My assessment is that U.S. sanctions eventually bring more harm to Europe than to Russia, also as a result of our counter-sanctions that create burden costs for the European economy,» Arkady Dvorkovich, told CNBC on the sidelines of the Ambrosetti Forum in Italy.

While the tariffs aren't as bad as they were before, they still «represent a burden on forestry workers and communities right across the country,» he said.

As for the Canadian companies operating primarily on the TSX, however, Oliver advocated for a set of «Made - in - Canada» improvements to the country's securities regime in order to avoid burdening small and medium companies with «excessive regulation.»

«Since the fall of»08 we have lost one community bank a day seven days a week... as a result, quite truthfully, of, obviously competition from nonbanks, but most particularly by a huge regulatory burden, some 12,000 pages of proposed and final rules in Dodd - Frank,» Frank Keating, president and chief executive of the American Bankers Association, warned in a television interview on Tuesday.

Many supporters of delay also argued that the President's Memorandum has rendered the ultimate fate of the Fiduciary Rule and PTEs uncertain and that proceeding with the April 10, 2017 applicability date in the face of this uncertainty would impose unnecessary costs and burdens on the financial services industry and result in unnecessary confusion to investors inasmuch as products, services, and advisory practices could change after completion of the examination.

The Paycheck Fairness Act pending before Senate «punishes employers for retaliating against workers who share wage information, puts the justification burden on employers as to why someone is paid less and allows workers to sue for punitive damages of wage discrimination.»

As Scotiabank mentioned in a note last week: «Higher interest rates are going to make the burden of refinancing the debt considerably heavier, and as more money goes into servicing the debt, it means less money is available to spend on other things, which could lead to less infrastructure spending and increased austerity.&raquAs Scotiabank mentioned in a note last week: «Higher interest rates are going to make the burden of refinancing the debt considerably heavier, and as more money goes into servicing the debt, it means less money is available to spend on other things, which could lead to less infrastructure spending and increased austerity.&raquas more money goes into servicing the debt, it means less money is available to spend on other things, which could lead to less infrastructure spending and increased austerity.»

«We are very pleased that the Supreme Court denied defendants» petition, leaving firmly in place the Second Circuit's precedential rulings regarding the necessity of utilizing event studies to prove market efficiency as well as the burden of proof required to rebut the presumption of reliance, both of which were highly favorable to investors,» the shareholders» attorney Jeremy A. Lieberman of Pomerantz LLP told Law360 on Monday.

Further, according to BofA - Merrill's analyst team at a midyear press conference on Wednesday in New York, any positive budgetary effect of the tax increases would be overshadowed by the growing burden of the U.S. debt ceiling as spending and hiring decisions are put on hold and the election heightens partisanship.

As a leading provider of defined contribution solutions, we can help reduce the administrative burden on plan sponsors, and help educate and empower employees to plan and save for the future.

The burden of proof is on you as a debtor to prove undue hardship.

Schnapp said easing the burdens on small business would go far toward reviving the economy, citing as an example the 17 different bureaucracies she would need to deal with if she wanted to open a winery in her Northern California home base of Sonoma County.

But the wider aim is for the regulation to harmonize as much as possible data protection rules across all Member States to reduce the regulatory burden on digital businesses trading around the bloc.

The revelation that Facebook data on as many as 50 million users appears to have made its way into a political data operation with no consent from users is Facebook's burden to bear alone.

«Hard as it might be, reducing healthcare's burden on the economy while improving outcomes for employees and their families would be worth the effort,» he said in a statement.

Such a tax system would place the greater burden of tax rising on consumption taxes such as the HST, and reduce the burden on income taxes.

The burden of these tariffs, as always, will be passed on to the American consumer.»

But both are planning on putting more of a burden on their publishing businesses than we've seen in previous splits, with Tribune's approach standing out as particularly Dickensian.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

But in the 1920s the Allies imposed an unpayably high reparations burden on Germany — largely to obtain the foreign exchange to pay the Inter-Ally arms debts that the U.S. Government insisted on collecting, rather than forgiving these debts as allies traditionally had done among themselves upon achieving victory.

In doing this, the Government will be reducing the tax burden on individuals, benefitting as many as two million British Columbians.

Why, in circumstances where Canada's security, policies and companies are already as fully protected as they can be, do we maintain a net - benefit test that does not show a bottom - line impact on Canada, imposes an unnecessary burden on investors and gives Canada a dubious (if generally undeserved) international reputation?

The guiding mentality of Tony Blair - style «New Labour» policy is economic loyalty to Europe's financial centers as government spending is slashed, public infrastructure privatized and banks bailed out with «taxpayer» burdens that fall mainly on labor.

Saudi Arabia's Khalid al - Falih said that his country was prepared to take on much of the burden in order to conclude the deal, but only if other countries offered something as well.

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The growing surge of content as a strategy and a marketing tactic has resulted in the unintended consequences of content proliferation and a burden on the part of buyers to sort through a continuous stream of messaging in various forms.

«Hard as it might be, reducing health care's burden on the economy while improving outcomes for employees and their families would be worth the effort.»

«It is not good for the world for the burden of solving this broader problem... to rest on the shoulders of the United States,» [5] insisted Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Wednesday, as if the spillover from U.S. quantitative easing and deregulation was not promoting the speculative dollar glut.