Sentences with phrase «of widespread cuts»

As the number of firms announcing redundancy consultations this week continued to rise — with news of widespread cuts at Berwin Leighton Paisner — new research from Legal Week has found a surprising degree of business confidence among partners in UK law firms.

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In 2009, state - sponsored bank bailouts led to widespread panic; despite deep budget cuts, Ireland plunged into the deepest recession of any EU country.

Add to that companies looking to cut travel budgets — and lower their carbon footprint — and you have the perfect combination of factors pushing online meetings into widespread use.

Attempts by Monti's government to cut spending caused widespread public anger, boosting the support of populist parties in the election.

Muni demand from banks and insurance companies should decline somewhat after the large corporate federal income tax rate cut from 35 % to 21 %, but we don't expect widespread liquidation of their portfolios.

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government is ignoring a report from the City of Prince Rupert that warned that ferry service cuts will do serious and widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy, say the New Democrats.

In the legislature, Trevena and fellow New Democrats pressed the B.C. Liberals for answers after an economic impact study by the City of Prince Rupert found that the government's ferry service cuts could cause «serious and widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy.»

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

The report reveals widespread «negative trends [that] often cut across national and regional boundaries,» including the use of anti-conversion laws.

If we establish the idea that people no longer have lifetime membership in the human family, the practice of abandonment could become widespread - strongly encouraged perhaps by insurance carriers to cut costs.

DuPont ™ Biomax ® Strong 120 overcomes limitations that have hold back widespread use of bio-based PLA, delivering remarkable toughening effects in brittle PLA materials, reducing crinkly film noise and cutting power consumption while increasing thermal stability during extrusion.

In order to cut through that, Miliband focused on two major issues at Gove and May's departments and used them to paint a picture of widespread chaos across government.

A leak exposed their intention to include a cut to holidays, as part of an overall below inflation three year deal, sparked widespread outrage within the NHS and wider.

Although DeFrancisco is hurt by widespread GOP support of Marc Malorino — his chief rival in the May nominating convention — voters should consider DeFrancisco's vow to cut taxes, his previous positions on the Syracuse City School District Board of Education and city council and his 40 - year undefeated record in political races.

«The reforms have created widespread public fear about the scale and impact of public spending cuts and the privatisation of public services.

The County Executive's Office credits the limited tax growth to fiscal prudence, targeted tax cuts, rising expenses, preservation of county services and widespread economic growth.

The majority of the public has confidence in the Government's ability to run the economy (55 %) and there is widespread confidence in its ability to cut the deficit (62 %).

The new prime minister cut a surprisingly warm and amiable tone in Europe, despite widespread fears among European leaders of a Conservative government.

Lhota has also refused to make service investments in Northeast Queens where it matters such as adding a Bayside / Whitestone / North Flushing to Lower Manhattan service which the MTA has admitted is a good idea; or having service on the QM2 and QM20 begin earlier in the morning which would better accommodate lots of people; or adding a 3rd Avenue branch to the QM20 bus; or restoring North Shore Towers to Lower Manhattan Express Bus service which the MTA quietly cut in 2008 without a public hearing, and at a time when there were plenty of service investments being planned, such as a Q45 extension to Atlas Park which drew widespread opposition in Glendale and by Community Board 5.

TUC head Brendan Barber has called for «co-ordinated strike action», the BBC walkout threatens to disrupt coverage of the Tory conference, the Police Superintendents Association has warned that the cuts will trigger «widespread disorder» and the defence select committee has attacked the strategic review as «money - driven, not threat - driven».

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled the first executive budget of his tenure on Thursday, a $ 73.9 billion spending plan that manages to fund his political priorities without widespread agency cuts or tax increases, thanks to higher - than - expected revenues and spending from two reserve funds.

The tax bill, which marks the first widespread reform in 30 years, directly threatens his legacy of cutting the state's high property taxes, Cuomo said.

This raises a challenge for policymakers and companies like Google and BMW, who support the widespread adoption of self - driving cars as a way of cutting pollution and saving lives.

With computers crashing and cell towers dropping offline, all of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties in California are instantly cut off from the outside world, so nobody beyond the immediate area knows how bad it is here or how widespread the damage.

In Florida, with widespread disease now endangering nearly 70 million trees (which provide 80 percent of America's orange and grapefruit juice), single tarps won't cut it.

Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, have used cutting - edge genome technologies to reveal the genetic makeup of a widespread skin parasite causing serious health problems.

Most of the Exxon climate research ended around 1982, likely due to widespread cost - cutting at the company during a down - turn.

When I analyzed the latest «meat will kill you» study, I wondered if some of the (tenuous and often insubstantial when you correct for unhealthy lifestyles, cooking temperature / method, processed meat intake, etc.) connections between meat intake and early mortality can be explained by our widespread tendency to only consume muscle meat and eschew organs, bones, skin, and gelatinous cuts.

by Walter Chaw Its final cut a full thirty minutes shorter than the one that was shown to widespread derision at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny is laced with melancholy and a crushing sense of loneliness.

Cut to newbie real - estate agent Leigh (Catalina Sandino Moreno), working in an environment of widespread foreclosures and economic hardships.

But these subjects are under threat with widespread funding cuts and lack of available learning space.

Her position has alienated Moskowitz from local charter leaders and advocates, who have taken pains to draw a bright line between their support for school choice and the policies advocated by the Trump administration, which has proposed a widespread school voucher program along with billions of dollars in cuts to public education.

NEA, in conjunction with the Florida Education Association and the Miami Education Association, continues to sound the alarm about the widespread effects of budget cuts.

Chicago Public Schools has experienced deep budget cuts in recent years that led to widespread teacher layoffs and the closing of almost 50 schools located primarily in low - income neighborhoods, prompting months of protests and school board hearings.

«States made widespread and deep cuts to education formula funding when the recession hit, and close to half of the states still haven't fully restored the cuts nearly nine years later,» the report says.

I realize that much has changed in the last few years — widespread economic hardship, cuts in state aid by both Democratic and Republican state governments, much slower than anticipated growth in property values,, the opportunity to cut staff compensation under the threat of union busting, dramatic cuts to the revenue limit base — but despite all of these changes, if you go back to the principles and the details of Partnership Plan used to sell the 2008 Operating Referendum (which passed overwhelmingly) I think you can find plenty of justification for increasing property taxes in order to achieve the mission of the district.

Duncan talks about the law, changes in public education and how to improve schools in the midst of widespread budget cuts.

The CEA's endorsement means that the leadership of all of the major public employee unions in Connecticut have thrown their support behind the candidate who has pledged that he will not propose or accept any tax increase during this second term, despite the fact that Connecticut is facing a $ 4.8 billion budget shortfall over the next three years.While Connecticut's millionaires continue to celebrate the fact that they have been spared the need to «sacrifice» by being required to pay their fair share in taxes, Malloy's policies will ensure massive increases in local property taxes for the middle class and widespread cuts in local education budgets.

There's no doubt that the Macan's interior feels a cut above those of its rivals, but thanks to widespread use of the colour black, it can still be a fairly dour and Germanic place to be depending on which model you're looking at.

2007, recalled some products, including Alpo Prime Cuts in Gravy, after widespread contamination of ingredients from China.

Already, at least one credit card issuer, Navy Federal Credit Union, has said it cut rates on two of its cards in response to widespread rate hikes.

Few collectors of emerging artists devote as much time, energy, and resources to ferreting out the cutting - edge as Michael and Susan Hort, who trawl the nooks and crannies of galleries and art fairs to find work by up - and - comers that catch their eye — and who often, with their support, go on to widespread renown.

Just as the artist Natalie Frank has begun to attract widespread attention for her expert paintings that collide art history, theater, and dread - inducing violence, she has deked into a new direction with her latest works, which trade her customary canvases for wooden board that she paints with enamel and then overlays with patches of cut - out canvas that she paints with oil.

(c. 1916 - 1917) Linoleum cut title page with watercolor & gouache additions from a portfolio of six linoleum cuts June 11 — August 18, 2008 This exhibition, which inaugurates a series of newly opened galleries on the Museum's second floor, surveys the widespread and recurring impulse toward geometric abstraction in modern and contemporary art.

Bangladesh will be under water, rural Asia and Latin America will have their fresh water cut off due to the disappearance of the glaciers which feed their rivers, the third world will be unable to buy enough food due to widespread drought.

The academies added that more cooperation is needed to cut the risk of widespread outbreaks of infectious diseases.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

The indifference reflects widespread public doubt that human activities play a significant role in global warming, a tone set by President Vladimir Putin, who has offered only vague and modest pledges of emissions cuts ahead of December's U.N. climate summit in Paris.

That's because they are seeing examples of bipartisan collaboration for clean energy and polls showing widespread support for cutting emissions from the electric grid.