Sentences with phrase «of dire financial straits»

Speaking via video — Hurricane Sandy forced Lippman to cancel plans to travel to D.C. — Lippman said the idea for the requirement came out of the dire financial straits facing civil legal services organizations at a time when demand for legal services for low - income individuals is on the rise.

The Courant endorses state Sen. John W. Fonfara for re-election to his 1st Senate District seat with the hope that the Democrat will help get the city and state out of its dire financial straits.

What bothers me... is it's taking too long for everybody to recognize what kind of dire financial straits we're in.»

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Often, entrepreneurs end up putting themselves in dire financial straits by trying to fund their businesses out of pocket by using personal credit cards, leveraging their homes for a second mortgage, and selling off their possessions.

If we hadn't then we wouldn't be in the financial dire straits we are in the middle of right now.

On May 28 2002, a three - man «independent commission», appointed by the FA, concluded that Wimbledon Football Club — who were in dire financial straits following Sam Hamman's chairmanship and an abortive move to Dublin — should be allowed to move from the London borough of Merton to the commuter town of Milton Keynes, some seventy miles to the north.

It appears that the magic of the FA Cup does not extend as far as helping out a lower - league club in dire financial straits.

«A consultant at the Kaduna Business School concludes that the first point to note is that states are in dire financial straits today because of poor management of fiscal and other resources that occurred in the years preceding the report.

Miner's city is in dire financial straits — so much so that she asked former LG Richard Ravitch to come in and lend a hand in hopes of righting the fiscal picture.

Yet the Tickners adapted quickly, adopting a suite of strategies to manage the increasingly hostile land and turn a profit, even as farmers around them were in dire financial straits.

The effects of DL 180 are even more onerous than the original law at institutions in the direst financial straits; those institutions will not be allowed to replace anyone.

Doubtless because of Philips's dire financial straits, the company is now cutting back and running single - page adverts in the same vein.

One reason why: well, the majority of college students in the US finish their education with an average debt of $ 30 - 40,000, with some longer programmes forcing students into much direr financial straits.

Falling on dire financial straits because of her loss of income from the ballet, she faces expulsion from her paid - for apartment and the loss of medical insurance for her ill mother (played by the wonderful actress Joley Richardson).

Determined to do a great job as maid of honor despite her dire financial straits, she's immediately undermined by Lillian's beautiful, wealthy bridesmaid Helen (Rose Byrne), who upstages Annie at the engagement party and declares that Lillian is her best friend, despite them knowing each other for less than a year.

With the company in dire financial straits, Howard's minority partners Whit (Edward Norton), Claire (Kate Winslet), and Simon (Michael Peña) conspire to wrest control by hiring three struggling actors (Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, and Jacob Latimore) to randomly sneak up on him on the subway or while he's eating and pretend to be personifications of death, love, and time while an unscrupulous private eye secretly records their interactions and doctors the footage so that it looks like Howard is talking to himself.

It's mainly the story of a guy on financial dire straits who has an opportunity to trade his morality and integrity for depravity in order to provide for his family, but it's actually so much more.

It stayed that way until 2011, when the pension fund was in such dire financial straits that the legislature increased the minimum service requirements back to 10 years to reduce costs at the expense of teachers.

Now California, in fairness, is listed as a state with «mixed results», but why would the governor promote the growth of this sector in his state while the traditional public schools are in such dire financial straits were it not for the huge sums of money dangled before him?

The Chester - Upland School Districts is in such dire financial straits that administrators are worried about having enough cash on hand to make payroll and keep schools open through the rest of this school year.

When some of the Altons find themselves in dire financial straits, they begin renting it as a wedding venue.

The likelihood of one bank being in dire financial straits while the other five banks are not is remote — I think we can agree on that.

While deferment can be of great help to those in dire financial straits, please be aware that interest will accrue on the balance of the loan, so it may not necessarily be the best option.

Most lenders will not simply let that go because they know they can try to mine as much money as possible out of consumers who are in dire financial straits.

While it might be tempting to extend the length of your loan when refinancing to get those payments down even further, unless you are in dire financial straits, this likely isn't a good idea.

If you watch a lot of television, there is no shortage of pundits shouting from the rafters that we are all in dire financial straits, but how correct are they?

Now consider this for one moment, because it affects a lot of people who are in dire financial straits with insurmountable debt — your health and well - being are more important than any problems that you have with finance at the moment.

The rate of foreclosure jumped by 81 percent (225 percent from two years prior), an unforgiving economic climate left many in dire financial straits.

Because of this and the significant cost of medical care and food for its animals, the oldest animal shelter in Delhi recently found itself in dire financial straits.

Ford is not in as dire financial straits as Chrysler and GM, but lobbied for the bailout to prevent a failure of the other two automakers from disrupting the industry.

Ford, which has said it is not in as dire financial straits as the other two automakers, has pledged to speed up development of battery - powered vehicles.

A bereaved family will often find themselves in financial dire straits if they have paid out for a funeral and there has been a reduction of income into the household.

Though money was the main public focus of the lawyers» contract demands (a pay increase of 10 per cent over four years, the same conditions an arbitrator awarded Quebec's 450 Crown counsel), Dion says the real driver that triggered the civil lawyers» strike on Oct. 24, 2016 — and fuelled their desire to stay out even after the LANEQ's war chest was depleted and many members were in dire personal financial straits — was their indignation over the government's refusal to grant them the same right to a binding arbitration process in exchange for the right to strike as they did to the province's 450 - member Crown attorneys» union (the Association des procureurs aux poursuites criminelles et pénales).

At a glance, someone who is comparing prices of different insurance companies can know whether they are dealing with a company that is in dire straits, is making a comeback from a financial blow, or is riding on top of the heap.

The high end of Washington clients may still need this coverage, but they are not in the dire financial straits that other Seattle clients may be facing.

Simply put, getting good rates will not help if your insurance company is in dire financial straits and may go out of business.

And if your company is in financial dire straits, you might be getting passed up for a promotion out of a pure lack of resources.

A family who is struggling with a situation that brings added stress, such as the death of a family member, addiction, or dire financial straits, may benefit from counseling to help them through their struggles to emerge on the other side as a stronger and more cohesive unit.