Sentences with phrase «take on austerity»

Investors in the PFC will now prepare to negotiate a restructuring plan — they will likely push for the government to take on austerity measures like cutting costs and raising taxes.

Not exact matches

That would cushion the lending banks from shattering hits, and could be combined with a modification of austerity based on longer working lives, a step most countries, including the United States, are going to have to take.

Perhaps it's not quite the Austerity Games yet, but we are already at the point when very few countries in which the leadership is accountable to its populace will take on the financial and political risk of staging the Olympics.

We'll also be taking part in an assembly on the last day, dealing with public services and Harper's «austerity» agenda.

Taking the example of the Quebec Liberal government's austerity agenda, Lanctôt explained how major cutbacks in the health and social services sector have imposed an unsustainable burden on both those who provide and those who use the services, the majority of whom are women.

I am certain that other Parliamentary Governments will fall as the austerity budgets begin to take a toll on voters of many Western nations.

Low oil prices are taking a heavy toll on Saudi Arabia's economy, which is facing even greater austerity under deputy crown prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud's plans to raise $ 100 billion a year from subsidy cuts and new levies.

The story moves toward its climax, Abraham acting with the same simplicity, austerity, and dignity as before: He built (the altar), laid (the wood), bound (Isaac his son), laid (him on the altar, upon the wood), stretched - forth (his hand), took (the knife) to slaughter his son (22:9 — 10).

Remember the austerity measures that had been taken to curb excessive spending and its impact on the Cognac industry in China had adverse effects too.

The government's austerity cuts have had a huge impact on the number of solicitors taking on legal aid cases, as Chana's experience testifies to.

Taking on two common anti-migrant tropes - «stress on public service» and «decreased wages» - Abbott identified that the real cause of these problems lay elsewhere: implementing austerity when investment was needed, and a «weakened trade union movement, and predatory employers» as the cause of decreased wages.

[5] He was one of 16 signatories of an open letter to Ed Miliband in January 2015 calling on the party to commit to oppose further austerity, take rail franchises back into public ownership and strengthen collective bargaining arrangements.

Voting for Corbyn then becomes a free hit: if Labour can not become a party of government any time soon, why not make it a more effective party of opposition that takes on the Tories» austerity agenda and unite it on that basis?

ATHENS (Reuters)- Tens of thousands of Greeks took to the streets of Athens on Wednesday as part of a nationwide strike against austerity that confined ferries to ports, shut schools and left hospitals with only emergency staff.

Adam Fleming took the mood box to find out whether the public thought the age of austerity was worth it as the crisis in the eurozone rumbles on, government cuts are starting to bite, and the cost of living continues to go up.

George Osborne has seized on the crisis in Portugal as a sign that the coalition took the right action when it launched an austerity drive.

Writer Leo Butler, in his latest play Boy at the Almeida Theatre, has taken on this unofficial accord and cast a sharp, searing light on austerity Britain.

Some MPs are concerned that his radical stance of facing down corporations and taking on Tory cuts will have little resonance in areas where Labour is facing a tough electoral challenge from Ukip; but asked if the party should tailor its message for different audiences, Corbyn said: «No: you've got to give fundamentally the same message, of the injustice of economic austerity, and the way in which local government is being punished».

She was one of 16 signatories of an open letter to Ed Miliband in January 2015 calling on the party to commit to oppose further austerity, take rail franchises back into public ownership and strengthen collective bargaining arrangements.

Brown says the austerity measures the state has taken have had a «significant impact» on the city's finances.

However, for every step forward the governor takes in addressing some critical issues, he takes two steps back by continuing his austerity spending at a time when we need to be investing in New York and by conditioning positive proposals on toxic and often unrelated requirements.

The 2017 election rewrote the rules, and though the opinion polls did well in tracking the Corbyn rise and the stagnant Tory vote, the experts largely missed the increasing popularity of Corbyn though by the time Paul Mason wrote in the FT on June 3rd that «the UK is not a left wing country, but it is a fair one that has had enough of austerity» — he captured something of the shifts taking place, and the shifts are not all to Labour.

Já, Olga Hepnarová (I, Olga, Tomáš Weinre & Petr Kazda, 2016) The Lure «s Michalina Olszańska — watch out for her; she's gonna be huuuge — as the eponymous queer Czech true crime automotive mass - murderer destined to be the last woman executed in the Czech lands, in a debut feature aesthetically harkening back to the austerity of Dreyer and Bresson and with particular resonances with each of their takes on Joan of Arc's trials and tribulations?

The story of a father trying to reconcile with his daughter set against the backdrop of austerity Europe, writer - director Maren Ade takes a simple premise and turns it on its head.

Although Senate Democrats will not allow these cuts to take effect, the proposal demonstrates how House Republicans» intent to double down on sequestration and austerity measures will make increases to education funding exceedingly improbable.

But iRex takes austerity in design to an extreme, with just one long flip bar (used mostly for turning pages) and a menu button on the left edge of the display.

Tobias Zielony, Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk, Hito Steyerl, and Olaf Nicolai — the artists exhibited in the Venice Biennale's German pavilion this year — have taken a strong stance in protest against the German government's decision to impose austerity measures on Greece, according to Artnet's Brian Boucher.

Oh, and something to remember: while the actions taken to «fight global climate change» will have enormous impact on you, your children, and grandchildren, they will have essentially NO impact on the nomenklatura who are making the rules and enforcing energy austerity on the proletariat — us.

In austerity Britain, it's unlikely that the OPG will be given the resources to take on some of the more radical measures advocated by supporters of law reforms.