Sentences with word «onerous»

Ashcroft and the Tories have refused to answer questions about when Ashcroft fulfilled the less onerous task of declaring himself a long - term resident, which allowed him to continue to be a «non-dom» paying tax only on his UK earnings and avoiding giving tens of millions of pounds to the tax office on his substantial international estate.

This involves onboarding vendors across a range of markets spanning Asia, Africa and South America and making the Know Your Customer and credit approval processes less onerous for vendors.

Maximus's picture of deification glows almost brazen as he risks outstripping analogy by insisting that saints «become the Lord Himself, if such an idea is not too onerous for some to bear» (Amb.

«We've found that a toonie isn't too onerous on a customer's grocery bill,» says Peggy Hornell, senior director of community investment for Loblaw Companies Limited.

Sanctions showed up in 2011 when the Department of Education mentioned the common core in requirements for regulatory relief from some of the more onerous requirements of No Child Left Behind.

Top 10 regulations The European Commission is consulting on the most onerous regulations for small businesses and the FSB wants to feed your views in.

En route, enterprise customers may face a much more onerous process than do small - to - medium - size busineses, because the former have a procurement department involved (in addition to the businesspeople needing the solution).

Having said that credit checks cost $ 15.86 CAD through the agency that I use so these costs are not onerous in the larger scheme of things.

«As our nation struggles to recover from the current recession,» the senators wrote, «we are deeply concerned that the pending Clean Air Act boiler MACT regulations could impose onerous burdens on U.S. manufacturers, leading to the loss of potentially thousands of high] paying jobs this sector provides.»

Although it is tempting to try to obtain as many protections as possible in settlement agreements and releases, the terms must not be so onerous as to provide the dismissed employee with a reasonable basis to refuse the offer.

That's largely because employers and workers don't have to contend with onerous taxes, insurance, and other fees slapped on everything they do.

We'd then confront two equally grim scenarios: a high quality free service competing aggressively with booksellers and largely paid for by onerous terms thrust on publishers and authors by legislation.

Placing new onerous tax burdens on individual industries or sectors, many of which are already under great financial stress in this economy, is the wrong response.

So it is a separate area of admission that is now very onerous in terms of requirements.

Unless Justice Kennedy can be convinced that Texas has effectively outlawed abortion by imposing onerous regulatory requirements (thereby violating the Fourteenth Amendment), he will stick with the conservatives, and the Fifth Circuit's decision will remain in place: a conservative win, but one of no precedential value.

Expected changes may involve removing the particularly onerous provisions of the legislation relating to collective redundancies and business purchases and acquisitions.

Most practitioners would agree that it is helpful to have a set of cogent regulations for guidance when faced with difficult questions on conflict and confientiality, but few would agree that those regulations should place more onerous restrictions on the profession than those imposed at common law.

Yes, under NCLB's waiver authority, the Secretary has a lot of room to maneuver in terms of letting states and districts escape from onerous parts of the law.

In the past, schools in some states with particularly onerous requirements have won protection through the Free Exercise Clause.

Public revulsion against the oil and gas industry increases the likelihood that contentious expansions — such as new oilsands mines in Alberta, shale gas extraction in Quebec and the northeastern U.S., oil pipelines and tanker terminals in British Columbia, and TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL bitumen pipeline direct from Alberta to the Gulf Coast — will not go ahead, or at least be burdened by onerous new regulations and trade - offs with regional stakeholders.

As mentioned above, contracting States of the Convention should not impose more onerous conditions on the recognition or enforcement of international arbitral awards than those imposed on domestic arbitral awards.

In determining whether or not any particular restriction was necessary, anxious scrutiny should be given to the question whether the interests of the public could be protected by a less onerous obligation.

This was not a very onerous task.

The Association of British Insurers is warning that the host city has the most to lose if any overly onerous regulatory framework is agreed on Thursday.

Education savings accounts are too new to know for sure, but the hope is that they will avoid onerous rules because funds can be spent on multiple uses.

«Calling people to exercise their democratic rights in a situation where their security can not be guaranteed is a most onerous responsibility.»

Industry groups like the American Petroleum Institute have heavily criticized the rule as forcing U.S. companies into a competitive disadvantage through onerous disclosure rules that are not required by other jurisdictions.

If this whole process seems onerous and confusing, that's because it is.

Unduly hampering these small businesses with overly onerous financial constraints inhibits economic growth, and stifles the innovation in our society that typically occurs in these smaller workshops.

The Prosecutor should not request a surety unless all the less onerous forms of release have been considered and rejected as inappropriate.

«Different incentives are at work here, whether you're trying to provide access to justice, where an individual trying to advance their case is not going to get hit with extremely onerous costs for advancing what they think is a legitimate case,» says Macek.

As such, Gilbreth's ideas were often supported by unions, and Gilbreth himself supported unions, so long as they limited themselves to the welfare of workers, and did not create onerous work rules that unnecessarily harmed productivity.

Tesla sells its cars outside China's network of luxury - auto dealers, enabling buyers to avoid onerous fees.

Plaintiffs include Public Citizen and the law firm of Alexander & Catalano, which argue that the rules place onerous restrictions on commercial and noncommercial speech and, in doing so, regulate the content of the ads rather than their accuracy.

In Washington, science policy experts warned that, unless the scientific community could reassure the public and lawmakers that it could adequately regulate itself, the controversy could result in onerous new regulations.

But we strongly agree on the need to give elected school boards relief from onerous mandates that cost taxpayers more money and do little or nothing to improve the quality of public education.

Disclosure requirements in the listing particulars have been set at a level to provide such investors with sufficient information to make an informed investment decision regarding the listed securities but without imposing unnecessarily onerous demands on an issuer.

Then there are the often onerous fees, which, in the case of variable annuities with lifetime income riders, can sometimes total upwards of 3 % a year.

That's right, if all you do is try to fix the most onerous parts of NCLB, but don't «move the ball down the field» in terms of reform, you are copping out.

How to define a trend, enter trades, leverage and the best times to trade... The idea of trading due to a sudden change of mind and notion might seem intriguing but in reality it is increasingly onerous as compared to someone who has conventional way to perceive markets in a systematic way.

Is an arbitration clause which does not violate fundamental fairness rights a provision which is so unduly onerous that steps must be taken to draw it to the attention of other contracting parties?

The company is confident it will ultimately prevail in the Hogan lawsuit, but was not able today to obtain from the trial court even a brief stay without onerous conditions to seek relief from the appeals court.

I did find teaching geography and planning fieldwork activities quite onerous with so few trained teachers on staff.

It's how onerous regulations are.