Sentences with phrase «as high a burden»

«Negligence» should be understood in an untechnical way to denote failure to act with the competence reasonably expected or ordinary members of the profession, but an applicant for a wasted costs order had as high a burden as in an action for negligence.

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Costs are both financial, including listing fees and the expenses associated with mandatory disclosures and other regulatory requirements, and less tangible, such as the perceived burden of quarterly earnings releases, the risk of being targeted by activist investors, and higher visibility that can result in political or competitive pressure.

«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.

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Early responses from the survey suggest that 46 percent of employers would take steps to cut costs with new strategies such as high - deductible health plans - which shift the burden of initial medical costs to patients, but have lower monthly premiums.

Georgia ranks 17th for total taxes paid but 15th for taxes paid as a percentage of income because the median household income is higher here than in some states with lower tax burdens.

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.»

The decision represents one of the most high - profile examples of the push by the Trump administration to dismantle what it sees as unnecessary regulatory burdens erected following the 2008 financial crisis.

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.

Unless China is able, very improbably as I have argued, to reform the financial sector deeply enough and quickly enough, the cost of a more competitive (i.e. more highly subsidized) export sector is ultimately a rise in the debt burden, unless of course Beijing is willing to tolerate higher unemployment or to implement greater wealth transfers from the state to the household sector.

-LRB-...) «As funding rates rise, the burden from higher borrowing costs will end up stressing corporate America, which means companies will look for other ways to reduce expenses,» Minerd said.

In addition, indicators of financial stress — such as loan arrears — remain low, suggesting that the high debt - servicing burden is not yet imposing a significant constraint on consumer spending.

* Cities are ranked from highest to lowest student loan & housing costs as a percentage of monthly income (i.e. highest to lowest student loan and housing costs burden).

New Dole looks to be massively undervalued, will still hold very good high value assets, especially saleable land, has some future potential catalysts that could help unlock value, it should be able to compete better with Fresh Del Monte and Chiquita, and new Dole will now be freed up to make acquisitions and improvements to its business and operations after the transaction with Itochu closes as it will not be burdened by the massive amount of debt that it has carried for years.

These are the ones the most worry policy - makers, and is one of the reasons they have pledged to be cautious as they take interest rates higher; anyone so burdened will be extra sensitive to higher borrowing costs.

To ensure their ultimate benefit is realized by innovators, the government should ensure that these tax measures are as streamlined as possible and do not become a burden of paperwork for the high - growth firms.»

They have seen daughters as a burden and as only having value for breeding purposes or in higher circles for forging political alliances.

I find they also have a somewhat higher standard of living, and their overall tax burden is about the same as ours.

As Lewis Lapham says, the barbarism in Washington today doesn't dress itself in the costumes of the Taliban, but wears instead the smooth - shaven smile of a Senate resolution sold to the highest bidder — for the drilling of the Arctic oil fields, for the lifting from the rich the burden of the capital - gains tax, for bigger defense budgets, for reduced medical insurance, for enhanced surveilance, or for some new form of economic monopoly.

There can be no question about the value of machines that make it unnecessary for men to serve as beasts of burden, greatly increase the efficiency of the craftsman, and release human beings for higher forms of activity.

As education to ever higher levels became a general obligation, it assumed more and more the aspect of a burden rather than an opportunity.

Singleness can be Accepted as a Burden - or as a Higher Calling Single people must not stifle what is best in themselves, nor give themselves over to dreams that can not be satisfied.

At that instant of time when I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.

As Christians, we understand through a Biblical lens that there is no «higher» race, and that sin patterns, financial burdens or physical disability don't make us more or less human, and certainly don't make our future children more or less worthy.

«Imbalanced diets, such as diets low in fruits and vegetables and high in red and processed meat, are responsible for the greatest health burden globally and in most regions,» said lead author Dr Marco Springmann.

While in principle AFSA supports strengthening permit triggers, application requirements and referral arrangements for genuine intensive animal industry applications (as per a new definition that excludes genuine small - scale free range farms), caution must be applied when increasing regulatory burden on the farming sector, which is already subject to a high regulatory burden.

we can't even get rid of players that have barely mannered to us for several years... which is incredibly annoying considering that our beloved owner would never risk his own financial resources whether he brought in some new blood or offloaded several failed Wenger projects for less than market value... he would simply make a little less and the burden would fall squarely on other sources of income, primarily us... I don't know about you but I would gladly use all the money they have been stockpiling to rid ourselves of those that don't meet acceptable standards and to replace them with a few higher priced gems... I know, I know, Wenger and his minions have been scouring the globe for years now to find anyone that was as good as our current lot to no avail, but I've just got to believe there must be two or three guys somewhere out there that can play this crazy game

The idea (to put it crudely) was to make fathers as unattractive to employers as mothers; to mount a real challenge to work - heavy work - place cultures (found mainly in the private sector); and to encourage mothers (who, with fathers playing a larger part at home, would feel less burdened) to have more children and to spend more years in higher level jobs.

Addressing the high cost of diapers for low - income families can help to take one more burden off those families as they strive to reach the middle class, and give the next generation the great start in life that all kids deserve.

One's baby is never felt to be a burden, at least to its parents, but the frickin» «heavy as sand» stroller your in - laws got you for the baby shower is often cursed up to the highest heavens because of a pulled back muscle, or an awkward child - in - one - arm situation.

The economic argument is debatable and opinions differ, but do you think the large numbers of struggling upstaters enjoy the high taxes, ever increasing fees (example: the cost to have your vehicle inspected DOUBLED from 2010 to 2011 and is now one of the highest in the nation) and endless financial burdens they as lower and middle class people endure while the rich bankers and CEOs downstate laugh at them?

Measures such as the higher personal allowance, the freeze in fuel duty, and abolition of the alcohol duty escalator will all ease the burden on hard - pressed families.

There have been studies that show a statistically significant relationship, but causality as you know is a much higher burden to prove.

New Yorkers finally can keep a buck for themselves as state observes nation's 3rd latest Tax Freedom Day, worst business climate, highest tax burden & 2nd highest income taxes

Burden described the change as «a significant shift of bulk away from the High Line along 10th Avenue that will greatly improve the feeling of openness from both the north and the south.»

Council spending now began to rise again, largely as a result of increases by the GLC, Merseyside and West Midlands councils; whereas Labour votes tended to be poorer and eligible for rate rebates, the burden of higher spending tended to fall on businesses and middle class homeowners.

David Willetts» unfortunate comment last week about higher education being a «burden on the taxpayer» suggests that not only will Liberal Democrat ministers have to continue to remind their Conservative colleagues of the importance of social mobility, but they will have to make the economic case for building a learning economy as well.

Even this change was limited to disputes involving «fiscally eligible» municipalities — defined as those with relatively high property tax burdens or fund balances of less than 5 percent.

President - elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo further pledged to reduce the tax burden on the private sector through lower corporate tax and the removal of import duties and VAT from some items while relying on revenue measures such as improving tax compliance, improving the quality of public finance administration and higher oil and gas production to finance these tax cuts.

The Fiscal Policy Institute has long proposed a circuit breaker as a solution to the burden of high property taxes on moderate and lower income families and to ensure that retirees are not forced out of their homes.

Beyond the climate change bill, though, we will need Labour and the Conservatives to be as brave as the Liberal Democrats in coming up with hard proposals for change: so far, only the Lib Dems have put forward firm plans for greener but not higher taxes, by switching the tax burden from good things like work, risk and effort to bad things like pollution.

As Gov, Andrew Cuomo had hoped when he first announced the panel in October, the commission's 13 - page report dwells heavily on relieving businesses and homeowners of the state's sky - high property tax burden.

An umbrella threshold, she said, doesn't capture the differences in households and property values across the city, so those with a high property tax burden would stand to receive the same benefit as those with a negligible one.

GR: Any study I have seen on overall state and local tax burden has New York as the highest or the second highest in the country.

He conceded yesterday at a fringe meeting that higher taxes bring in little extra revenue, but are there to ensure that - as he put today - «the broadest backs carry the biggest burden».

As associate professor and first - author Johan Bollen writes in an e-mail to Science Careers, they wanted their new system to «enable scientists to set their own priorities, fund scientists... not projects, avoid proposal writing and reviewing, avoid administrative burdens, encourage all scientists to participate collectively in the definition of scientific priorities, encourage innovation, reward scientists that make significant contributions to data, software, methods, and systems, avoid funding death spirals (no funding - > no research - > no funding) but still reward high levels of productivity, create the proper incentives for scholarly communication (publishing to communicate, not to improve bibliometrics), enable funding of daring and risky research, and so on.»

China leans toward cap and trade In a separate effort published yesterday, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report concluded that climate policy researchers who work in China would prefer an emissions trading market that puts the highest burden on energy - intensive regions and cities in eastern China and, as the market moves west, becomes less costly.

Lower - income individuals performed poorly if the repairs were expensive but did fine if the cost was low, whereas higher - income individuals performed well in both conditions, as if the projected financial burden imposed no cognitive pressure.

«This may be referred to as the «pertussis paradox»: an increasingly large disease burden, despite consistently high vaccination coverage,» he said.