Sentences with phrase «propose a raise in»

Mahoney did not propose raises in her budget, even though she said when she once vetoed a raise for Comptroller Bob Antonacci that the budget was the only appropriate time to consider a raise.

In the UK, the whole debate over the proposed raise in fuel duty (3p a litre), has been over the politics and «economics» of it (with a 19th paragraph quote form FOE in the BBC).

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In a statement, Broadcom said it «strongly disagrees that its proposed acquisition of Qualcomm raises any national security concerns.»

U.S. yields have risen in recent weeks with increased inflation expectations due to the proposed polices of President - elect Donald Trump, as well as the belief that the Federal Reserve will also raise interest rates again this month.

Responding to Tory charges that the NDP's proposed cap - and - trade system would wind up raising gas prices by 10 cents per litre, Jack Layton blamed Stephen Harper «s subsidies to big oil companies and support for the harmonized sales tax in Ontario for higher gas prices.

The Fight for $ 15, a worldwide effort to raise wages and strengthen unions, has successfully led to better pay in many places since its launch in 2012, and a proposed federal minimum wage of $ 15 an hour was part of the Democratic Party platform in 2016.

The competition watchdog has raised concerns over South32's proposed $ US200 million acquisition of Peabody Energy Corporation's Metropolitan Colliery in NSW, on the grounds that it may lessen competition in the region.

The proposed tariffs, which targeted 1,300 Chinese products, including industrial robots and telecommunications equipment, dramatically raised the stakes in Trump's effort to punish China for alleged theft of American technology.

A bigger problem for Trump and the GOP: Whatever reduced rate ends up in proposed legislation, critics are bound to point out that there's little evidence to support the idea that corporate tax cuts create jobs or raises wages.

The barrage of identical messages, which appeared in the last three days, have raised questions about whether the comments represent legitimate public feedback on the FCC's proposed rules or whether the messages could be the work of automated computer «bots.»

A proposed EB - 6 «startup visa» — a component of the bill that passed in the Senate but stalled in the House — would offer a path to permanent citizenship tailored to entrepreneurs, allocating up to 10,000 visas annually to foreign - born founders whose companies raise at least $ 500,000 from qualified investors and create at least five full - time U.S. jobs.

In the immigration bill under consideration in Congress, the number of H - 1B visas is proposed to be raised from 65,000 to 115,000, with escalators to rise until the number caps at 180,00In the immigration bill under consideration in Congress, the number of H - 1B visas is proposed to be raised from 65,000 to 115,000, with escalators to rise until the number caps at 180,00in Congress, the number of H - 1B visas is proposed to be raised from 65,000 to 115,000, with escalators to rise until the number caps at 180,000.

«Lattice remains of the view that the proposed transaction does not raise any national security concerns that can not be addressed by the comprehensive mitigation measures that Lattice and Canyon Bridge have proposed to implement,» Lattice said in its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

What Walden is suggesting is not quite the issue — Nadler and others in the media have proposed issuing the coin to continue paying the nation's bills in the case that the debt ceiling is not raised.

Dayen raised the issue recently in his analysis of controversial rule changes proposed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which coincide with SEC efforts that could water down already inadequate corporate disclosures.

The Waterloo, Canada - based tech company announced today that Fairfax Financial Holdings, the investment firm that proposed the takeover bid but was unable to raise the necessary funds, will instead invest $ 1 billion in BlackBerry.

Oracle should raise its offer to buy NetSuite to $ 133 per share from the $ 109 - per - share it had proposed in July, NetSuite shareholder T. Rowe Price Group said.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

«There is a great deal of enthusiasm in the marketplace for crowdfunding, and I believe these rules and proposed amendments provide smaller companies with innovative ways to raise capital and give investors the protections they need,» said SEC Chair Mary Jo White.

Zippon.in, an on - demand logistics aggregator for relocation services, had shut shop in February as it could not raise fresh funding after a proposed deal to sell out to a larger rival fell through at the eleventh hour.

Layton was responding to criticism from Jack Mintz — the economist oft - quoted by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper as justification for his tax policies — that the cap - and - trade system the NDP proposed to cover the cost of $ 3.5 billion worth of green initiatives in the first year would raise gasoline prices by 10 cents per litre.

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.

At the meeting Yindjibarndi elders and senior people raised serious concerns about the proposed agreement including the failure of Rio Tinto to engage in any proper negotiations or consultation with all Yindjibarndi people.

It is worth remembering that Reagan, hardly a fan of reversing course or raising taxes, found it necessary to propose significant tax increases in 1982 and 1984 (the equivalent in today's economy of $ 3.5 tn over a decade) due to concerns about federal debt.

They have instead offered concessions like raising caps on foreign investors» stakes in Chinese financial institutions, and proposed eliminating import tariffs in narrow categories like drugs to treat cancer.

Western University is proposing pay raises that would result in over $ 400,000 in increased wages between give senior executives whose current compensation totals $ 1.7 million.

Raymond James representatives say the firm supports SIFMA's efforts to «raise industry and Congressional awareness of the potentially negative impacts» of the DOL's proposed change in the retirement account fiduciary definition.

Uganda is proposing a tax on social media use in a bid to curb gossip online and to raise billions of shillings in government revenue.

The proposed tax aims to raise funds to tackle a crisis that was linked to the death of 169 homeless people in 2017.

Abe had proposed to raise sales tax from 8 percent to 10 percent in 2019 to pay the debt.

And the Department of Labor's proposed fiduciary rule, while not fully implemented, has certainly raised a flag in the minds of financial intermediaries regarding costs.

But this isn't the first time Feinstein has raised concern about bump stocks in Congress — she brought up a similar restriction in 2013 that proposed banning all semiautomatic weapons that could accept a «military feature» like a detachable stock.

While I agree that the tax system should be fair and equitable for all, I am very concerned that the proposed changes will negatively impact hardworking small and medium - sized business owners, lawyers, accountants and physicians who play by the rules, create jobs in our community and are also raising young families in Riverbend.

Did Hillary Clinton actually propose raising middle - income taxes in a recent speech?

And although proposing a bill to address sexual harassment in venture capital or trying to eliminate the unconscious bias of the fund managers might help raise some awareness, it's not likely to solve the problem anytime in this century.

A series of proposed megamergers in the global agrochemicals and seed industries — capped by Bayer's record $ 66 billion cash bid for Monsanto — raise fears of a pricing monopoly in the farm - supply industry and threat to the global food supply.

Earlier this month West Australian Premier Mark McGowan said a bank tax would raise more than $ 800 million over four years and required serious consideration after a proposed increase to the gold royalty rate in the state, expected to raise $ 392 million, was blocked.

The company was reported last month to be looking to raise as much as $ 10 billion through the sale of non-core assets in order to help pay down some of the $ 50 billion or so it has proposed to borrow to pay for EMC.

Securities regulators in Canada should reconsider their proposed ban against investment funds in Canada raising capital through one of the equity crowdfunding exemptions.

He therefore proposed a constitutional amendment in late 1875 that would have rewritten the First Amendment — applying it to the states, and adding that «no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools... shall ever be under the control of any religious sect.»

Henry had proposed a bill to raise taxes for salaries of clergymen in all those churches that would accept such aid.

Sensing many of the same difficulties Neville has raised against my temporalistic interpretation of genetic successiveness, John Cobb has proposed this constructive alternative: In addition to temporal successiveness, Whitehead conceives of another order of successiveness, which he calls genetic or microcosmic.

In the meantime, our new leader is proposing to deal with the unprecedented problems of the city, child - care, education, homelessness, and the environment without raising taxes.

In this article Johnson provides what he calls a «rough description» of modern evolutionary biology, raises a series of arguments against evolution, and finally proposes a creationist view of the origin of species.

Some years ago, an ugly row broke out when secularist politicians raised (abortion - related) objections to the proposed involvement of the Sisters of Charity in managing a new maternity hospital on the site.

Khan raised the issue during a discussion aired Sunday on ABC's «This Week,» which spent this week's broadcast focusing on American Muslims and the fears evoked by the proposed Park51 Islamic center in New York and by mosques in other parts of the United States.

Even to propose it as the solution to the racial morass raises derisive hoots in the black community and patronizing shrugs and smiles from whites.»

While we do not think the solutions to the three points raised in the ad are as simple as those proposed, we are encouraged that prominent evangelicals are joining the discussion, acknowledging that religious people have something to say to secular decision - makers.

Considerations that are connected with recent progress in understanding self - organizing chemical and physical systems lead me to propose a criterion for application of the category of actual entity that retains many of the distinctive features of the philosophy of organism while dealing with some of the objections raised against that system, and including aspects of the Buchler - Wallack approach.

One important way of countering the «beastly» threats of our time is to engage in the kind of activities Houston proposed, especially a mindful Christian scholarly focus on the practical concerns that advanced technologies raise.