Sentences with phrase «standard of living does»

Child support is ordered in divorce cases to provide the child with financial stability and to help ensure their standard of living does not greatly change when they spend time with the other parent.

It is accepted that, in nearly all divorces, the standard of living does decline initially.

To ensure your standard of living doesn't suffer too much as you grow older, you might save part of each pension check during the early years of retirement — or, alternatively, take the precaution of building up a decent pool of savings during your working years.

If the poorer nations are to improve their standard of living does this mean at least slower growth in the richer nations?

Because your standard of living doesn't rely on the equities you need never sell them when they are depressed.

Evidence climate change is real: people who are fervent apostles of it actually adapt to standards of living that do not include private jets and mega mansions.

The court retains the power to make orders for school fees to be paid and where the paying parent has a gross income in excess of # 156,000 per annum, it can order «top up» child maintenance to ensure the children's standards of living does not vary greatly between the two homes.

Not exact matches

While, of course, to some extent this has to be true, especially in life - threatening situations - your employee can lead an evacuation down a fire escape but can't necessarily design standards for what is an acceptable or unacceptable level of smoke inhalation - it's important to simultaneously push against it, to let your employees know what they need to get done but not necessarily how they should go about designing their day and carrying out their duties.

So again, the book struck me as being fairly vague about the very concept of «inequality» because it does not provide a very insightful perspective into the meaning of «wealth» and how it really relates to our living standards.

It's a philosophy that may have limited the company's circulation (it's currently distributed in California, Colorado, Oregon and the Philadelphia area), but Cilurzo says that's less of a concern than people having a beer that doesn't live up to the brewer's standards.

One, Chinese exports to the United States improve the American standard of living by selling less expensive goods to United States that we benefit from — and we don't make those goods anymore.»

In other words, you have to show that even paying the minimums would prevent you from maintaining a minimum standard of living, something that's extremely difficult for the average person to do.

But the first thing I recommend you do when you receive a windfall is to take a «money break» and not increase your standard of living for at least a year.

If we don't stop the rapidly growing influence of government over private sector activity, we will squander America's unmatched capacity to innovate and create a standard of living and free society that are the envy of the world.»

No matter what good fortune visits you in life, do not change your standard of living.

However, the spokesperson did echo both Jane and Stoppelmann's comments on the standard of living in San Francisco.

The takeaway here is that each innovation increases our labor productivity, meaning we can do more work more efficiently, reaching our desired standard of living along the way.

The death benefit and payment plan of any standard whole life insurance policy are set as part of the policy and do not change.

Finance Minister Paul Martin's policies did more damage to the social policy infrastructure and the standard of living of Canadians than anything Mulroney did.

While computers and the Internet hold revolutionary possibilities, he said, they will not affect living standards or productivity the way the innovations of the last 150 years did, citing developments like railroads, electrification, indoor plumbing and the like.

But these trophies of wealth do not promote rising production, consumption or living standards.

The creation of transitory and fragile asset - price bubbles is not built on labor nor do they bring rising living standards in their wake.

The average Chinese household lives on a quarter of the income that American and Western European households do, and standards of living remain very low in rural parts of the country, and across central and western China.

Higher productivity growth, sustained over a few decades, would have a profound impact on future living standards, but to expect an economic boom of anything but the short - lived variety is to rely on arithmetic that doesn't add up.

The current tunnel is nearing the end of its service life and does not meet modern seismic standards, which could be catastrophic in the event of a significant earthquake.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Home ownership also fell and so did the overall standard of living.

But... don't confuse an improving standard of living with what's going on in your portfolio.

First, do you have dependents (a spouse or children or even elderly parents) who rely on your income to maintain their standards of living?

Don't confuse the cost of living with the standard of living.

Silver Standard's rationale for doing the deal was simple — its Pirquitas Mill runs out of feed in 2017 and it sees an opportunity to use Chinchillas, located only 30 km from the mill, to extend Pirquitas» production life by multiple decades.

Even if you're not able to enjoy the exact same standard of living in retirement as you had while you were working, there is one thing you can do to make retirement enjoyable: find meaning.

That's what allows a standard of living to increase and when that doesn't happen, investments start to slow and you get falling capital expenditure and a falling velocity of money.

It's hard to know what to do, it's hard to know how to deal with the situation, especially because we're in a situation where both parties know what the standard is; it would be different if they had never been LDS and therefore had not once lived by a particular code of conduct.

This is so sad and empty, letting «pride» stand in the way through life, and yes, I too think that religions seem to take us further away from each other, with all of its rules and standards, is just a waste and it divides us when it should be bringing us closer to our spirituality of real life, but religions do not do this it takes us far from each other or it just puts up a pretense.

Thus, if you life in a big city without a garden, you are not poor, but you don't have reached the highest standard of living.

Religion, including your phony promises of heaven and eternal life, doesn't even begin to meet that standard.

How often, in all walks of life, do we judge others by a different standard than we measure our own shortcoming?

Live by social standards, and don't hide behind the cape of fear to die.

He is a typical «ugly american» who buries his head in the sand and proclaims the overblown virtues of our country while failing to see that, yes, other countries do things radically different than us and they also have a phenomenal standard of living.

I didn't say the O.T. doesn't apply in my life... I'm telling you the Law of Moses (the standard YOU raised), which is a small part of the O.T. does not apply in my life.

This was simply the culmination of the way Jesus lived: he never dressed as we think a king should, or did things properly by our standards.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

We're not shocked at each other's inability to live up to a Christian standard and we don't reinforce that failure diminishes God's acceptance of us.

I was a churchy person, and I spent my life judging those who did not measure up to my standards of Godly living.

That is why economic problems do not diminish as the standard of living rises.

People who teach their children to live by a standard of purity teach their children what to do about sin.

My ultimate standard of moral judgment is found when I face the questions: Does this act bring life or does it bring death to the persons involDoes this act bring life or does it bring death to the persons involdoes it bring death to the persons involved?

You are even picketing outside of churches and sending people in to invade them during their worship services, violating their sacred space, because they don't live up to your «standards».

We do not have to live according to the stifling standards of a sinful world any more.