Sentences with phrase «heavy economic burden»

Crowded animal shelters not only add to the suffering of innocent animals, they present a heavy economic burden to taxpayers.

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The countries that place the heaviest burden of regulation on businesses, according to the World Economic Forum, include many in Europe (Serbia, Croatia, Italy) and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela).

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

The present heavy emphasis on economic opportunity puts a terrific burden on winners as well as losers; for there is the very - present fear that one misstep will have you tumbling down the ladder.

As the state with the heaviest tax burden and the least economic freedom, New York ranks at the top in the export of jobs and productive citizens.

Not only do they share the same set of economic assumptions (those of CBO), but they both place the heaviest burden of deficit reduction on discretionary spending, the category that includes R&D.

The economic, social, and emotional tolls of these deaths are substantial, but some parts of the US are bearing heavier burdens than others.

During tough economic times, a heavy debt burden can be crippling because bank lending dries up.

High cost debt is a particularly heavy burden during times of economic uncertainty.

Canadians households are stretched thin already, and heavy debt burdens are putting more Canadians at risk of financial default in the event of interest rates increases, unemployment or other economic hardships.

Alaska, New Mexico have heaviest card debt burdens — A combination of economic forces and individual financial discipline gives some places a heavier debt burden than others... (See Debt)

The economic uniqueness of the climate - change problem is not just that today's decisions have difficult - to - reverse impacts that will be felt very far out into the future, thereby straining the concept of time discounting and placing a heavy burden on the choice of an interest rate.

The economic costs of climate change are already being felt, and some of the world's poorest nations are bearing the heaviest burden.