Sentences with phrase «mean governments and businesses»

Increased energy demand in emerging markets, uncertain energy prices and international pressure to reduce carbon emissions, mean governments and businesses see the economic and security benefits of shifting to clean energy.

Not exact matches

The government's plan to reduce the small business tax rate to 9 % means Ottawa is foregoing $ 5 billion in annual tax revenue, according to Lanthier, and that other taxpayers will have to bear those costs.

Through manufacturer and government incentives, the purchasing cost has plummeted in recent years meaning it's not the upfront costly burden it once was, even for small businesses.

Less income for people and businesses means less tax revenue for the government.

So, the government will be spending less and consumers will be spending less, which really means that businesses will be spending less, which means you should expect less spending in your business and you got ta operate for a slow - down going forward.

Gavin de Becker and Associates owns and operates The Private Suite, which means the same national security services that have protected US government officials, business executives, and prominent families oversee these exclusive accommodations at LAX, one of the country's busiest airports.

Angus responded by arguing that Chan's role as the company's leading public policy person in Canada means he's in charge of engaging with government on a wide range of business issues that affect Facebook, which has 23 million users in the country and more than two billion worldwide.

The outcry is in response to Indiana's Republican Gov. Mike Pence signing into law a «religious freedom» bill that will free individuals and business owners from abiding by state and local laws that «substantially» burden their exercise of religion, unless the government can prove that it has a compelling interest and is doing so by the least restrictive means.

Among its suggestions is a recommendation that all levels of government use procurement programs as a means to support small and medium enterprises and minority - owned businesses, including requiring supplier diversity policies for federal crown corporations and agencies.

Uncle Sam is spending less, and that means that businesses are having to fight harder to win business contracts with the U.S. government.

Increased government spending, low but slowly rising interest rates, and the repatriation of business and corporate funds back to the US means it's a healthy, safe market for everyone.

The government explains that lower corporate tax rates were intended to apply only to active business income and not as a means of maximizing personal savings.

With various means of distribution, metro Atlanta is home to a variety of business, government, and school supply chain facilities and networks.

Trump and Kushner say that the government should be run like a business, but that would mean eliminating regulations and expenses that benefit the people says Michael Hudson.

Simplified acquisitions, small business credit, low cost fees, and flexible ordering types mean better solutions, better value, and better government.

I do not mean a narrow economist's definition, but rather the whole way of thinking about inflation in business, government and the community generally.

• Counter-cyclical, meaning they are capable of reducing the negative impact of recessions, because they can make money available for local governments and businesses precisely when private banks decrease lending.

That is too bad, because the campaign weakness of business executive candidates like Romney and Perdue means that the government might lose out on the experience and managerial talents of very accomplished men.

In its recent release, The Long Boom: What China's Rebalancing Means for Australia's Future, the Australia China Business Council says one in 58 Australian workplaces are now engaged directly in exports to China and the integration of our economy with China's is about to enter an intense phase as the Chinese government ramps up its «accelerated rebalancing» project.

I mean how many females want to be Engineer or Tradesmen which build everthing we see around us without which we'd have cow paths; or, own their own very risky business... take away services especially Government run, and tons of women would be jobless.

Plans by the government to further «open up» the welfare state will simply mean «big profits for big business» the Public and Commercial Services union says.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: «Camouflaged by the rhetoric of a «big society» and «cooperation», the government's plans will simply mean big profits for big business.

In his view, government must show more concern for local businesses and that should mean separating illegal miners from legal miners and allowing the latter to freely operate because they have done nothing wrong.

It means the following: far more government ministers meeting their American counterparts to talk about shared interests; more visible cooperation between the British and American military; talking about the benefits to British security from our close ties with US intelligence agencies; highlighting the creation of British jobs from the investment US businesses put into Britain's regions; and the promotion of pro-British American voices on a range of issues across the media.

A competing startup can disrupt the monopoly by creating new means of production (for real world example, see Microsoft disrupting IBM, Apple disrupting Microsoft (or Mozilla in browser space and Linux in server OS space), Uber / Lyft disrupting taxicab business even in the face of government capture by the latter.

I thought for a few hours this might be a good thing anyway, but now suspect that the lack of a real - deal on PR will mean that Clegg can't do business - and as the other possible coalitions are unworkable, Cameron will end up trying to run a minority government with no formal agreement.

She launches into a defence of government attempts to help small and medium sized businesses, selling the stabilisation of the banking sector as a means of assisting them.

He even told them that the era of living in Enugu to run the affairs of the local government is over and he meant business when he said that.

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Mr Miliband said Labour would make up for the # 470m the spare room subsidy is meant to save by reversing some of the Government's tax cuts for businesses and George Osborne's «shares for rights» scheme.

«For years the small business community, municipal officials, and taxpayers have travelled this state pushing «Let NY Work,» a common sense platform of mandate relief proposals that will reduce mandated costs on school districts and municipalities, allowing local governments to live within their means while providing the services citizens need.

While workers, businesses and everyone who voted in the referendum just want to know what the government's approach to Brexit is likely to mean for their future and the future of the country.

Last week, alarm bells rang about a possible SNP ambush of the Finance Bill, forcing the House to sit through the night and knocking out the next day's business — meaning there would be no vote on the Government's new Welfare Bill.

Those proposals include a $ 500 million investment in broadband Internet access in rural upstate areas, the creation of an infrastructure bank, using $ 500 million from the state's surplus to further provide incentives to local governments to consolidate and share services and the Global NY initiative, meant to promote overseas trade of state businesses.

But the industry is not out of the woods yet, says Crowley: Although the government's incubator initiative supports its vision of Ontario becoming one of the top three biotechnology business regions in North America (behind California and New England), «by no means does such infrastructure development guarantee success.»

SBIR and its companion Small Business Technology Transfer program were designed to spur small businesses and research facilities to produce innovative concepts and designs meant to benefit the federal government, and is managed by the Science Technology Mission Directorate at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.

But the Government's focus on social mobility does show it means business on transforming the life chances of young people and I hope this is just the start of good things to come.

This means that if as a business your PAYE bill is under # 3m, which is an estimated 98 per cent of UK businesses, you are required to only pay a maximum of 10 per cent of the apprenticeship training and assessment costs with the government topping up the remaining 90 per cent.

And hopefully, the Becca Mills story will inspire us to take charge of our publishing businesses whether that means getting liability insurance or registering our copyright with a government office.

Businesses, governments and financial institutions issue money market securities as an inexpensive means to borrow money to cover short - term liabilities.

2) The Canada Education Savings Grant (CESG)-- You toss in a little and show the government crew you mean business, and they'll chip in some more (up to $ 7,200 more).

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Since the government is not doing it, there should be a consortium of powerful and influential small crafs owners (Hollywood types, business executives, etc.) whose means and environmental awareness could spur research and help transform GA in a petri dish of change, instead of the collection of antiquated technologies that it is today.

Rather, they're meant for businesses or organizations like schools and government.

And that's because Big Oil has always had, essentially, a veto power over what the federal government does, both because of its economic might — I mean, we're talking about the richest business enterprise in human history — and all the political muscle that comes from thAnd that's because Big Oil has always had, essentially, a veto power over what the federal government does, both because of its economic might — I mean, we're talking about the richest business enterprise in human history — and all the political muscle that comes from thand all the political muscle that comes from that.

In fact, making the changes necessary to deal with climate is going to mean a lot of «strong and slow boring of hard boards,» integrating climate into the ordinary business of government, assembling and disseminating information, drawing in new partners, and building up constituencies.

This week is the first American Wind Week, when businesses, schools, government and communities across the country are encouraged to share what American wind power leadership means to them.

As businesses grapple with the meaning of Australia's carbon tax repeal, they — and their government affairs units — may want to consider which type of policy environment would do them best: the current paradigm that taxes their income and inflexibly regulates pollution, or one that encourages clean innovation and the power of markets.

Then, the idea of Ecological Footprints emerges, co-developed first by Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and co-founder of Global Footprint Network, in order to reveal what individuals, businesses, cities, and countries demand from nature and highlight the role of governments in managing our natural capital more wisely to ensure all live well, within the means of our planet.