Sentences with phrase «long squeezed by»

Basic pensions, long squeezed by successive governments, were treated well, but child benefit was frozen, housing and invalidity benefit battered, child trust funds abolished, tweaks and tougher testing imposed elsewhere.

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LONDON, Feb 6 - Gold prices slipped on Tuesday, weighed down by a firmer dollar and as some investors were squeezed by falling stocks and cashed in long positions in bullion.

Their margins are also squeezed by the Bank of Japan's long - running negative interest rate policy.

In Denmark, long - standing establishment parties are being squeezed by the emergence of a populist movement fronted by the Danish People's Party (DPP).

While it's true this isn't the only tool you should use by a long shot, most people probably don't squeeze everything out of it they could either.

We are no longer just being financially dwarfed by Man City and Chelsea, we are now about to have the free run we have previously enjoyed in the French transfer market squeezed by the arrival of more Middle Eastern financial heavy weights to Paris St Germain.

I tried a few times to just let him get on himself, but when it became obvious that he wasn't going to do it on his own very quickly my midwife (who was also a lactation consultant) encouraged me to «shape up» the nipple by gently squeezing either side of it to make a longer, skinnier shape that would more easily fit in his mouth (check out this video for how to shape your nipple).

If the future of fiscal squeeze follows the pattern of the past, we can expect future squeezes to continue to bite harder on the spending than on the revenue element, to be orchestrated and planned within the central administrative apparatus rather than by outside commissions, and for the pain to be spread over longer periods with lower annual falls, rather than in sudden steep cuts.

I would still expect their support to be squeezed as we get closer to the election, as the race focuses more upon the binary choice between a Conservative and Labour led government but events, such as further defections now a by - election is no longer unavoidable, could easily push that off course.

The federal prosecutors, led by William Harrington, said Seminerio created a sham consulting agency, Marc Consultants, to squeeze $ 1 million out of Jamaica Hospital, the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, Plaza College in Jackson Heights, the Long Island Rail Road and other organizations while in office.

Our research, to be published in Westminster next Tuesday, shows how the cumulative impact of the welfare reforms has been to push people into survival mode, squeezing them to focus on short - term, day - to - day getting by and preventing them from being able to make long - term positive changes to their lives.

«There are those who contest that the UK has historically set far too much store by home - ownership and that we should be unconcerned that the average age of the first - time buyer is approaching forty but taken together, this trend, the spread of means - tested benefits, the regime for long term care, the damage done to private pension provision by one of Gordon Brown's earliest misjudgements, compounded by the current squeeze on household finances which has seen over a million people forced to abandon contributions to their pension funds, all amount to a massive turn away from a culture of property ownership with the responsibility and independence that goes with it.»

Residents across Long Island whose wallets continue to be squeezed by electric rates higher than nearly anywhere else in the country didn't need to read a 34 - page audit to know that current costs are unsustainable and unacceptable.

Then Earth reached a critical point 2.3 billion years ago when the fumes released when crustal rocks are squeezed and deformed could no longer absorb the oxygen produced by bacteria.

Recordings of drumming by eight adult males made between 2003 and 2011 revealed significant differences in how long the males liked to drum, their fondness for doublets and pauses, and how many beats they could squeeze into a drumming bout.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

If your gym doesn't have any of these, try hex dumbbell holds by grabbing two hex dumbbells at their ends and holding them for as long as you can, then take a short rest and repeat, or practice plate pinching by putting together two Olympic plates with the smooth side out, squeeze them together with your fingers and hold for as long as you can, then rest and repeat.

By squeezing in a few thigh - specific sets every time you hit the gym you will have long lasting results.

So, get your training in order, get your nutrition in order, and then if you want to fully optimize your results by including a few basic supplements to meet your specific needs and to squeeze out a few percent of additional results over the long term, then that's fine.

A strong sense of style, an observant screenplay, and the sort of performances that elevate standard fare into the realm of memorable buoy the picture over many of its rough patches and redundancies, but Lin needs to squeeze out his narrative with greater urgency and balance: long periods of high school drama and exposition separated by badly justified epiphanies undermine the picture's coherence and flow.

Stephen Root flits by long enough to squeeze out approximately one chuckle while assigning Chris a terrible task: to escort his ex-girlfriend Samantha James (Anna Faris) to record her new album, a hideous - kinky concoction with the lead - off single «Forgiveness» («To forgive is divine, so let's have a glass of wine / And have make up sex until the end of time»).

Yet, even with new forms of resistance ushered in by technological innovation, the stiff - gestured ideology of neoliberalism has arched towards a state of «human exceptionalism» where all of humanity is now supposed to feel free to exploit at will the relations between nature and society any way that it chooses, as long as profits can be squeezed out.

Take the 2016 Dodge Journey: Although its underpinnings are a bit long in the tooth by automotive standards, the Journey is positioned as the most affordable crossover in the United States, and Dodge squeezes out even more value for the 2016 model year.

Predictably, these businesses have responded by trying to fight e-book adoption, trying to protect their print book business for as long as they can, and squeeze out a few more profitable quarters.

Allow dog to shake off excess water, and follow up by squeezing the longer coat on the body with the towel.

Luckily the charging cable is pretty long and you can squeeze out a bit of extra life from the controller by lowering the brightness, but we'd have hoped for more juice in there.

The three vertical panels, in addition to referencing the traditional triptych format, appear to be horizontally subdivided into three regions: a relatively quiet area along the top, bordered by a long squeeze of red paint that crosses the surface from left to right; a densely layered strip across the center, where the majority of the collaged elements are concentrated; and a band of brightly colored stripes that fills the bottom.

Until the run up in oil prices started in 2002, boosted by the sad events around Hurricane Katarina, there were no material rewards for real long - term concerns, and the Bush Administrations throttling was only the worst of the squeezes that started under Pres REagan.

After a few hours toying with the emissions calculator at safeclimate.net, I had this epiphany: By squeezing four friends into a mid-sized car, I could cut our long - distance air travel emissions by more than half, per persoBy squeezing four friends into a mid-sized car, I could cut our long - distance air travel emissions by more than half, per persoby more than half, per person.

Unless you've been following the evolution of digital music for a long time, you might have seen the Mp3Tunes lawsuit as just another in a long line of attempts by the major record labels to squeeze money out of digital services, as they continue to fight the ongoing disruption of their business model.