Sentences with phrase «government than at any time»

Instead, Democrats emerged from the election with less political clout on the national and state levels of government than at any time since 1928.

Not exact matches

• XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis: «We're living at a time when individual entrepreneurs are more powerful than governments» (by Andrew Nusca)

In 2000 the Supreme Court ruled (in Christensen v. Harris County that local government can compel employees to take accumulated comp time rather than take it at any time of their choosing.

«The evidence for economic reform to date is scant and based on purported private statements rather than government pronouncements,» wrote Bruce Klingner, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former CIA official, in an October op - ed for the Los Angeles Times.

In my NYT bestselling book, Killing Sacred Cows, I warn people of the 15 major problems of the 401 (k), including: you're not the owner but only the beneficiary of your 401 (k), the government can change the rules at any time, you can't get to the money until 59 1/2, and the fees are typically much higher than most investments out there because you've added complexity and layers of administration and legal fees.

«At a time when young adults and families are struggling more than ever to pay for higher education, they simply can't afford to have more financial support eliminated by this tax plan,» said Reid Setzer, Young Invincibles» director of government affairs.

It's trading at less than 10 times earnings, partly because of the Ontario government's desire to slash auto insurance rates by 15 %.

«It is the first time the Libertarian ticket will have more government experience than the Republican ticket, and that is astonishing,» says Stan Veuger, a resident scholar and economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Despite the fact that economic growth for this year is now forecast to be substantially lower than that expected at the time of the April Budget, Mr. Oliver is still confident that the federal government will record a surplus in 2015 - 16.

At a time when markets are pointing to the problem over the next generation as being inadequate rather than excessive inflation, central bankers need to spur demand and co-operate with governments.

It was a really forward thinking decision at the time - one that other governments didn't follow - as the number of Canadians receiving retirement benefits from the government will more than double between 2003 and 2030.

You can increase competition with anti-trust enforcement, and regulate natural monopolies and both (in the case of the newly merged Time Warner Cable), create greater transparency of prices, use government purchasing power, restore previous price controls (and please a federal usury law at no more than 15 %, to prevent debt bubbles of higher inflation).

Bottom line: Google builds an insecure messaging system controlled by carriers who are in bed with governments everywhere at exactly the time when world publics are more worried about data collection and theft than ever.

With the national unemployment rate at 4.1 percent, a 17 - year low, there are more job openings in the retail industry than at any time since the turn of the century, government data show.

Instead, the government at that time decided to use the average of private sector economic forecasts rather than those produced by the Department of Finance even though E&Y had concluded that the Department's economic forecasts were consistently better than those in the private sector.

It is tragic, therefore, that in the United States today, federal infrastructure investment, net of depreciation, is running close to zero, and net government investment is lower than at any time in nearly six decades.

Plus it takes the government more than 20 % of tax revenue each year just to pay INTEREST on its debt — and that's at a time when rates are actually NEGATIVE.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

It brought a long - desired prescription drug benefit to Medicare for the first time, at less cost than if the government had paid for it — and indeed, for less money than its own projected budget (last time I checked).

I'm sure I'm not using the right wording but it is easy to say something is outdated dogma by only looking at the last line of a book that has been in process for 2,000 years (i.e. 9 times older than the government trying to tell it what to do).

Government hire investigaters or set up a hot - line... My sister - in law - is on medicade has been to the hospital more than 200 times in the last 3 - 4 years... days and sometimes weeks at at time... who is paying that friggin bill we are.

I believe in government; that men can not live together without rules but that they should be kept at the bare minimum of safety; that there is no form of government ordained from God as being better than any other; that the anarchic elements in society are so strong that it is a whole - time task to keep the peace.

No, never and at no time was greater internal damage done to Christianity than in these fourteen years when a party, theoretically Christian, sat with those who denied God in one and the same Government.

As of 1990, more than three billion people were living under such governments: over four - fifths of the population of the less - developed regions of the earth at the time, and nearly two - thirds of the population of the entire globe.

Unfortunately, at the same time that many world leaders are recognizing the limitations of the neo-liberal economic system, the United States government is even more fully committed to this than in the past.

At the same time, record government deficits raised the national debt from about $ 900 billion in 1980 to more than $ 2 trillion in 1988.

Today Government, which at the time of the death of God was celebrated by Time as the omnipotent progenitor of the Great Society, is no better than a «dispenser of largesse.&ratime of the death of God was celebrated by Time as the omnipotent progenitor of the Great Society, is no better than a «dispenser of largesse.&raTime as the omnipotent progenitor of the Great Society, is no better than a «dispenser of largesse.»

Ironically, such proposals come at a time when this form of government, which is but 200 years old, has been expanding rather than restricting freedom for all its citizens, and has been doing so despite massive immigration, legal and illegal, and despite having added «foreign» territories like Hawaii and Alaska.

Unison said the government will also have to refund more than # 27 million to the thousands of people charged for taking claims to tribunal since July 2013, when the Lord Chancellor at the time, Chris Grayling, introduced the fees.

When one considers the actual conditions that prevailed in the local congregations at the time of the Reformation and is mindful of the fact that the people themselves for many reasons lacked initiative so that, as objects rather than as subjects of action, they were dependent upon the leadership of the princes, magistrates, and church governments, one can understand why the actual calling of the ministers was in fact rarely the result of their decision.

The event came at a time when the packaging industry is under more scrutiny than ever before, with the government, media and consumers all calling for change.

Mr Palmquist said growers were at times $ US30 per tonne to $ US40 per tonne more expensive than their global peers and while this gap had narrowed to about $ US15 per tonne it highlighted the importance of improving the supply chains, including government - owned railways.

Previously over more than two decades, Pablo had professional policy and management roles at different times in all three levels of government, industry, the tertiary education sector, and not - for - profit organisations.

There were more unemployed women over the past five years than at any time under the previous Labour Government, and real wages for women have fallen year on year since 2010.

Delivering our Labour goals — supporting families and communities, tackling disadvantage, spreading educational opportunity, safeguarding our NHS, investing for the future — will be more difficult than at any time in our living memory, certainly since the post-war Labour government of 1945.

Thus the government's interference with the price of milk will result in less milk than there was before, and at the same time there will be a greater demand.

Peter Riddell is a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and wrote about politics for the Financial Times and The Times for more than 30 years

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

The International Secretary General of MSF, Oberreit, illustrated this method when, at the same time as the tweet was issued about «victims of EU policies», he called on European governments to change their priorities: «rather than maximising the number of people they can push back, they must maximise the number they welcome and protect.»

At the time, world leaders stressed the importance of rebuilding Libya, but government figures show that the UK has spent 13 times more on bombing the country than it has on reconstruction.

Indeed, at 24 per cent in 2012, it is considerably lower even than the ETR observed for the fifth North Sea hydrocarbons producer, the German Federal Land of Schleswig - Holstein, whose government has been increasing the statutory royalty rate in line with rising oil prices in recent years — from 12.5 per cent in 2003 to 21 per cent as of the time of writing — with the result that the ETR in the German sector of the North Sea in 2012 came to 33 per cent.

Our distinctive contribution was to look at government costs and performance over a much longer timescale than had been attempted before and we believe our own study will contribute to transparency and accountability through our unique publicly - available compilation of consistent long - term time - series of official data.

«Its proposed new government structure would dilute and disenfranchise people of color and other underrepresented groups at a time when greater participation in our civic process must be encouraged rather than diminished,» she said.

At the time, the choice to entrust the incumbent prime minister rather than the leader of the largest party with the first attempt to form a government had cross-party approval.

The government officially claims that more than half of those who breach their Asbo are imprisoned - but in reality they are actually being locked up for other criminal offences at the same time.

At age 79 and with more than two decades of service, Molinaro was entitled under the city's pension rules to collect two government checks at the same timAt age 79 and with more than two decades of service, Molinaro was entitled under the city's pension rules to collect two government checks at the same timat the same time.

The Government has a commitment to eradicate fuel poverty in all UK households by 2016, however rising energy prices mean there are now around 1.5 million more households in fuel poverty than there were at this time last year.

At the end of the day, he was recruited before me but he started several months later than me because of all the time needed to get certified copies and translations of all the required documents and for the visa application to make its way through various government offices.

The vote in 2007 was itself an FPTP vote on the future of the Lords, rather than a preferential vote, and I remember it being couched in no uncertain terms at the time as 100 % being the obstreperous option that would result in Lords reform progressing the slowest; indeed, despite wide - ranging support in the Commons for 100 % elected Lords, the Labour government indeed made no progress whatsoever on such legislation.