Sentences with phrase «harder than the government»

Not only is modifying an operating system a lot harder than the government makes it out to be — much harder than handing over a pen register.

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It's hard to convince small business owners that if they work extra hard or take on additional risk to expand their businesses, that the government is entitled to more than half of the rewards.

The Federal Reserve's ultra-low interest - rate policy since the financial crisis may have lent support to a listless economy and made the government's massive debt a lot easier to finance, but it's been more than hard on retirees and conservative savers.

Similar legislation «would be a hard pill to swallow» in Canada, which is often less comfortable with government intervention than Iceland, said van Biesen.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has defended the country's economic policies, repeating that there was more opportunity than risk and vowing that there would be no hard landing for the world's second - largest economy if the government pressed ahead with reforms.

Huge federal, state and local government unionization — much higher unionization rates than in the private sector, including manufacturing — makes it very hard to trim fat from the government.

The local government's crippling debt of more than $ 73 billion and PREPA's own obligations of $ 9 billion made it hard to keep up with critical maintenance like trimming tree branches away from power lines, let alone make upgrades to make the energy network.

States tend to allow fewer deductions and credits than the federal government does, but especially in states with state - level Earned Income Tax Credits, eliminating deductions and credits outright (perhaps except for a standard exemption, but even that could be hard to implement) would be a significant change, and potentially a tax hike on poor families.

Nowhere has low oil prices hit harder than in Alberta, and the government's finances in particular

Despite any talk of a democratic ICON Republic, in the long run it's hard to imagine the voting rights being dominated by anything other than large financial institutions or governments.

Many American Muslims feel singled out by government anti-terror policies; significant minorities have been called names or had their mosques attacked; and most say it's harder to be a Muslim in the United States now than it was before September 11, 2001.

It's hard to find a policy with a more consistent track record of failure than government job - training programs, but throwing more money at government schools without any structural reform is one of them.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

Hence the Beijing «consensus», a «soft» document with no binding character on governments or the UN as an intergovernmental body, proves stronger than hard law, which it reinterprets by stealth.

Hard just war theory reverses these emphases, replacing them with the following: a presumption against injustice and disorder rather than against war; an assumption that war is tragic but inevitable in a fallen world and that war is a necessary task of government; a tendency to trust the U.S. government and its claims of need for military action; an emphasis on just war theory as a tool to aid policymakers and military personnel in their decisions; an inclination to distrust the efficacy of international treaties and to downplay the value of international actors and perspectives; a less stringent or differently oriented application of some just war criteria; and no sense of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Nick Gibb, the school standards minister was quoted by The Times as saying: «Thanks to the hard work of teachers and this government's continued focus on raising standards and increased emphasis on phonics, six years are reading better than ever before.»

Crucifixes are all over Italy in public places and it will be hard for that person not to notice a crucifix in any public place INCLUDING the public schools there... so I don't know why this person would suddenly sue the government for having a crucifix at a walking or sitting at a PUBLIC school which does not teach religion any more than a walking at a PUBLIC pedestrian where you would probably find more crucifixes as you walk by.

The Northern Territory government's plans come after a wide - ranging review of alcohol harm last year, with wine to be hit harder than beer because of the higher levels of alcohol per package.

I don't think that's a power the government can be trusted with (and mind you, where I'm from, education in state curriculum is far harder to avoid than in the US - homeschooling etc. is mostly reserved to kids with «medical reasons»).

That post should have given wavering «yes» voters pause for thought; the path to independence is harder and riskier than the Scottish Government's optimistic White Paper claims.

However, many warn that the economy is running too hot — around 25 % actual inflation per year (although the non-credible, official rate put out by the government's statistics bureau is less than half that amount, another point of criticism) and some expect there to be a possibly disruptive correction (a «hard landing») sometime following the election.

«We are working hard to tackle this issue and levels of positive drug tests remain lower under this government than they were under the previous one.

It is telling that the government has more public debates than an opposition thinking deep and hard about its past and future.

«Some of them have been small, others large, but together they have turned the party inwards rather than outwards, looking to the past rather than to new ideas, resting on easy rhetoric rather than taking hard decisions — and above all seeking to distance ourselves from our time in government, rather than building on it, in terms of both policy content and political culture and dynamic.»

«New York is harder hit than any other state when we are the largest state contributor to the federal government, sending $ 48 billion more to Washington each year than we get back.

Despite the coalition's determination to get the legislation passed quickly, enabling same - sex couples to marry as soon as this summer, the government may find it harder than it expects to get the bill through parliament.

Touting his government's work in the energy sector, he said, «it has taken a lot of hard work and effort fast tracking the deployment of emergency plants and speeding up the completion of ongoing plants ensuring that we added more than 800 megawatts of power over an 18 - month period.»

People in Wales have been hit even harder than those in the rest of the UK by this Tory - led Government's failed economic strategy, with wages down # 1700 on average, energy bills up # 300 and 40,000 families hit by the hated bedroom tax.

But Theresa May will know better than most that however hard governments try, events define governments as much as planned policy.

Rather than being a collective government or party initiative, they volunteered to do the hard legwork themselves.

He said he was «sceptical of those who claim to draw the answer to every problem from a loud ideology» and suggested that the government's popularity was about «focus, delivery and hard work» rather than «tacking right or moving left».

«Throughout this entire process, Supervisor Ron McGreevy and the entire Tyre Town Board have worked harder and more diligently than any local government body I have ever seen.

Despite being appointed by the Government to champion business in the UK, Lord Sugar seems to have no grasp of the hard work small businesses do and the role they play in employing six in 10 of the country's private sector workforce and contributing to more than half of UK GDP.

He also labelled the current government as a «super-incompetent» regime under which Ghanaians, according to him, are experiencing a level of hard times worse than the living conditions the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had claimed existed when he was in charge as President between 2012 and 2016.

I think Muslim governments are even more concerned with terrorism than anybody else and take very hard - line measures.

Since these groups are also more than likely to be amongst the same class that is being kicked hardest by the government's austerity measures, there is a danger that the socially ostracised and economically downtrodden could become politically voiceless to boot.

Committee chairman James Arbuthnot said: «The government should adopt a hard - headed approach to engagement with Russia, based on the reality of Russia's foreign policy rather than abstract and misleading notions of shared values.»

Dems will be working hard to prevent Mitt Romney from achieving separation from the House GOP, arguing that the Dem emphasis on a mix of tax hikes and spending cuts, along with more public investment to keep the recovery going, is far more balanced than the Romney / House Tea Party emphasis on gutting government at all costs.

The origins of the SNP's rise have little to do with the Liberal Democrats and pre-date the formation of a coalition government in 2010, but shacking up with the Tories and taking co-responsibility for austerity made life even harder than it would otherwise have been.

Public sector austerity and government spending cuts have hit women harder than men and increased relative disadvantage in ways that reduce incomes and childcare support, and may cut back women's employment and opportunities more broadly.

``... Just last year, after allocation, actuals, government allocated in excess of 700 million to the office of the President which is more than the 500 that we are allocating this year, so I find it very hard to understand why anybody will be interpreting this.

«There is no reason why a coalition government should lack ambition, and we will be working hard to ensure that the Emergency Budget contains a lot more spending cuts than have so far been announced.»

The Government said that as council tax had more than doubled since 1997, ministers were «determined to protect hard - working families and pensioners on fixed incomes.»

It is now hard to argue against the idea that the Lib Dems should have wielded their influence outside of government, holding the Tories to account in a more public manner than they could within.

And yet this is the same government that passed an emergency budget that could put more than a million workers on the scrapheap, that jacks up a VAT that lands heaviest on those who are the most hard - up, that floats shrinking some public services by up to 40 % — that almost gleefully drops the guillotine of cuts on the necks of the poor.

Her supporters argue that under Crown prerogative powers the government can take such decisions on its own but the precedent of the 2013 vote (which defeated David Cameron) makes this harder to maintain than it used to do.

On Talk of the Town, Tenney said government procurement rules made it harder to send the table back than to accept it.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called the proposal a «direct attack» by the federal government that would hit blue states harder than others.

People are working harder than ever, but will rightly feel that the government is working against them.»

Not since David Steel's famous call to his party to «prepare for government» has a leader of the third party tried harder to face his party with the thought of power than Clegg did in Bournemouth today.