Sentences with phrase «puts on public services»

The aim is to cut the deaths and disease associated with heavy drinking, and the huge pressure this puts on public services.

Dana is trying to make it sound like the UFC is putting on a public service

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As Bloomberg pointed out last month, Spotify's recent deal to raise $ 1 billion in convertible debt valued the company at roughly $ 8 billion and put additional pressure on the streaming service to go public.

Snapchat even started testing a new redesign that puts Stories — public Snapchat videos — from friends on the media side of the service.

GORDON T LONG: Right now I am pretty well restricted to my work because I am retired, I'm an investor, I just manage my own money and I do this work to really narrow in on where my investing should be, but I publish and put all of this at www.matasii.com and there's a subscription service for it depending on what kind of detail you want to go down to, but a lot of it is right out on a public page.

It would mean Greece following through on its market reforms and privatizations + Greece reforming and downsizing its civil service + Greece maintaining a stable government despite public outcry + Greece fixing its tax collection system + the troika being willing to put off some Greece interest payments and then writing off some significant portion of Greece's debt when Greece's government finally consistently reaches a primary surplus.

Chicago Public Schools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their choices.

After I wrote a series of articles about the industrially - processed convenience foods being served in my daughter's elementary school here in the District of Columbia I heard that Tony had been reluctant to talk to me because he thought I was putting too much pressure on Whitney Bateson, the nutritionist for Chartwells, the giant food service company contracted to provide meals for D.C. public schools.

Of course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provision.

Michael Heseltine, commenting on BBC2, was certainly in no doubt that this was his kind of Tory speech, an appeal to «the whole spectrum of society» that put education and public services at its heart and is aimed at re-engaging with parts of the country in which the Tories have become an extinct or endangered species — hence the appeals to Humberside, Lancashire and even Scotland.

GDS has done both, but the emphasis has been on the former, most evident through putting the government portal GOV.UK at the centre of public services.

They called on Cuomo to «put people first,» urging him to protect public services New Yorkers rely on and focus on cutting the unemployment rate instead of tax rates for the richest 3 %.

Nobody has put a dollar figure on how much corruption costs New York tax - payers in higher taxes and bad public services.

It would introduce a range of requirements on national and local government to ensure that public ownership is protected and promoted, including an obligation to allow a realistic and thorough in - house bid whenever a service is put out to tender.

Some demographers had feared the baby - boomer generation could suffer because its larger numbers could put pressure on public services.

The 2016 Assembly elections will put a microscope on Labour's record on public service delivery.

«That is why we are trying to work with National Grid, New York Public Service Commission to come up with a model that would allow that transition to the LED lights and when you are doing that as not to miss the opportunity to put some of that other available technology on the light pole.»

«The failure to address this issue by the Government is putting a huge strain on public services and putting those services under threat.

As thousands of people from across the UK prepare to march in London this Saturday for jobs, justice and climate as part of a global «Put People First» campaign, PCS and War on Want are drawing attention to the tax gap and the missing billions of pounds which would help to fund public services and stabilise the economy.

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«Uncontrolled, mass immigration makes it difficult to maintain social cohesion, puts pressure on public services and can drive down wages for people on low incomes.

Cuomo's counsel Alphonso David (in a letter dated Monday) instructed the leaders of the state Public Service Commission, the Department of Environmental Conservation, and the New York Power Authority to «suspend or discontinue all communications» with the power company, and put any pending consideration of its projects on hold.

But, Mandelson said: «What it is right for the government to do is to set out how we will back our key frontline public service priorities and be explicit about the different priorities, where some things that we would otherwise have wanted to spend more on will now no longer be the case, where there are things that we wanted to do which we will now have to do more slowly or put on the back burner.

In the last decade or so, we have seen record levels of net migration in Britain, and that sheer volume has put pressure on public services, like schools, stretched our infrastructure, especially housing, and put a downward pressure on wages for working class people.

But his report also criticises the way Rice was supervised once he was released, saying the probation services had put too much focus on his human rights and failed to attach sufficient priority to public safety.

The key section would allow Britain to restrict in - work benefits to EU migrants for up to four years if the number of incomers «are putting an excessive pressure on the proper functioning of its public services».

He warned of the extra pressure this could put on housing and public services, adding: «This is just the latest in a long line of examples showing how the government patently does not have control of the immigration system.

However, a Home Office spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying that 97 per cent of registered workers were in full - time work and therefore were contributing to the UK economy, not putting extra strain on public services.

And yet this is the same government that passed an emergency budget that could put more than a million workers on the scrapheap, that jacks up a VAT that lands heaviest on those who are the most hard - up, that floats shrinking some public services by up to 40 % — that almost gleefully drops the guillotine of cuts on the necks of the poor.

Labour party members have called on Ed Miliband to put the railways and postal service back into public hands if the party wins power at the next election.

It was also leaked on the same day closures and downsizing of juvenile justice facilities were announced, which will put more people out of work and undermine important public safety services.

One myth is already doing the rounds: that Margaret Hodge's victory over the BNP in Barking was down to her strident line on somehow putting «indigenous» people ahead of new arrivals in the queue for public services, whereas Jon Cruddas's failure to romp home in Dagenham and Rainham came from his refusal to do anything similar.

The Public Service Commission under the direction of Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to decide Thursday whether high - voltage power towers will be put up on a route taking transmission lines through the Hudson Valley.

What we actually need to do here is put together a programme that is credible on the economy and on interest rates but at the same time will deliver the decent public services and the fairness that the majority of lower and middle income families want.

The rules and the controversy — which put some neonatal research on hold for several months this year — were the subject of a daylong public hearing held earlier this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington, D.C.

Based on the review we suggest that a way ahead contributing to achieve public health goals through the food service sector is e.g. by making changes in the placement of the products we want to promote, like vegetables by putting them first in line.

The IAHS says such a price hike will inevitably undermine the public's efforts to safeguard and maintain their health by the use of supplements, and equally inevitably put even greater strain on our beleaguered health service.

As a growing population puts further strain on the demand for public services and school places, local authorities are turning to modular buildings to construct lower carbon buildings more quickly.

Currently under way in Hartford, Connecticut and Syracuse, New York, the program tests whether increased law enforcement efforts and public service announcements can get distracted drivers to put down their cell phones and focus on the road.

In other cases, up to $ 5,000 in loan forgiveness could be available to other public elementary or secondary school teachers, provided that your school qualifies for these funds under Title l of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and that at least 30 % of the school's students qualify for Title l Services and are on the Teacher Cancellation Low Income Directory that is put out by the Education Department.

Not only have they put a focus on origination fees, but the group has also advocated for the public service loan forgiveness program.

Our team will be on the ground providing spay / neuter services, educating the public and putting together more «Operation Breathing Room» flights.

Petfinders.com is the granddaddy of Internet pet adoption services, but hundreds of public and private shelters put pictures and descriptions of available pets on their own websites.

Additionally, putting severe constraints on economic growth puts people out of work, reducing society's ability to pay for public services.

The Fitch bond ratings agency has warned that California's protracted drought could put financial pressure on public - power entities in their ability to service their bond debts.

We put pressure on Nebraska's Public Service Commission, which had the final say over whether the pipeline would be permitted to be built in Nebraska, in advance of their hearings in August.

The law societies that denied Trinity Western its accreditation, especially those that did it on the basis of referenda, put their members» political agenda ahead of the public interest in having reasonably - educated (as all concede Trinity Western's graduates will be) lawyers competing to provide legal services.

I don't feel that the fact that we are public has changed the effort and thinking we put in to the legal advice we provide — whether we take on a case, whether we recommend to a client to settle a case, but it has meant that we can service more clients and that we've expanded a lot outside personal injury law.

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

A lawyer in Florida who was put out of business, along with every other real estate lawyer in her city, by a six - month long (that is all it took) campaign of predatory pricing, and who, needing to make a living, then took a job with that industry (but is no longer doing much law), went on to describe the level of service (despite the now four times greater cost than the lawyers ever charged) that her new employer and its non-competitors now deliver to the public as shit (her word).