Sentences with phrase «work than the government»

The government uses religious social service agencies precisely because they're good at it and typically more cost - effective in their work than the government could be.

Not exact matches

General Motor's Mary Barra also underscored the need for governments and big companies to work together, rather than separately — though, she added that this requires execs to remain open minded.

It's hard to convince small business owners that if they work extra hard or take on additional risk to expand their businesses, that the government is entitled to more than half of the rewards.

«A great margin, but also the debate showed the centre left is much more united than the centre right and that means the government's work will go ahead strongly.»

Mr Prosser has worked in the public service for more than 20 years in both Commonwealth and State government departments — including a stint as an Aboriginal heritage project officer with the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet.

More than 2,500 cities around the world — many of which had the support of their local governments — submitted proposals to be among the first locations with a working Hyperloop.

The government will have to step in «so that people don't start howling,» said a welder who has worked at the plant in southern Siberia for more than six years.

They had job sharing; rather than having German industry just slash and burn and cut all their workers the way that happened in the United States, what (the German government) did was have those workers work part - time and subsidize their wages.

Less than 10 % of LGBT - owned businesses currently work as contractors for state and local government, according to NGLCC research, although 80 % say they would like that opportunity.

«Once we realized that we were able to make the technology work the way it does, we realized it was obviously a larger play than just the government side,» he says.

Virginia's coastal region is for lovers, veterans, and government employees — with more than 150,000 people working for the government in some capacity.

Unless the residents are working for the band office or a government - run social service, they're almost certainly unemployed — and more often than not, addicted to prescription painkillers at the expense of putting food on the table for their families.

A recent analysis of U.S. government data form the Brookings Institution found that people who still work near or past their traditional retirement age earn significantly more per hour than their younger colleagues.

«In those countries, by and large, government works for ordinary people and the middle class, rather than, as is the case right now in our country, for the billionaire class,» he told This Week's George Stephanopolous in May.

The New York Times» Andrew Kramer reported on the phenomenon in December, writing that «for more than three years, rather than rely on military officers working out of isolated bunkers, Russian government recruiters have scouted a wide range of programmers, placing prominent ads on social media sites, offering jobs to college students and professional coders, and even speaking openly about looking in Russia's criminal underworld for potential talent.»

There has been uproar from unions this week after it was learned more than 2,000 Chinese miners would be on their way to British Columbia to work in mines run by Canadian Dehua International, a Vancouver - based company founded and run by a former Chinese government official, to name one company involved.

«By taking charge of their earning power, rather than waiting for governments, financial institutions and employers to «right themselves,» the baby boomer generation now has the power and access to put their skills and abilities on the global market regardless of where they live or work now,» he says.

I need to work for now to show taxable income for the government to get my residency, but after that I know my time could be better served than earning 8 dollars an hour, I'm just not sure where to go from here.

The two leaders, who realized they stand to benefit more from cooperating in order to push prices higher, agreed to work together to help world oil markets clear a glut that had more than halved oil prices since 2014, pummeling Russian and Saudi government revenues.

Let's think worst case — should the currency collapse in your home country... and should a bank run ensue... and should the government mandate that all banks then close for no less than a week... and should subsequent food shortages take place... and should no clean water be available... and should the electricity and heat not work... and should violent protests, riots, and widespread looting erupt...

Horn said that voluntary paid family leave is the better option because it allows employers, who «are closer to their employees than the government is,» to create programs that work for them.

Through a wide variety of educational programs sponsored by the U.S. government, corporations, foundations and foreign governments, we annually work with thousands of U.S. and international educational institutions and more than 27,000 students, scholars and professionals around the globe.

These figures implying lower growth are consistent with the announcement by Premier Li in the 2016 Government Work Report setting the growth target for 2016 at 6.5 - 7.0 % — a lower growth rate than the target of «around 7 %» set for 2015.

Before joining government, he worked at RBC Financial Group for more than 20 years.

The government has been working for more than a year on a plan to support homeless veterans and those at risk of becoming homeless, who advocates say need and deserve extra attention after serving in uniform.

Climate Action Network International: Climate Action Network International (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 850 Non-Governmental Organizations in more than 100 countries, working to promote government and individual action to limit human - induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.

While you are free to work and receive Social Security retirement benefits, the government will reduce your benefit if you are younger than your full retirement age and end up making more than the yearly earnings limit.

I have worked for some of the biggest and best known companies in the world and the level of waste and incompetence is really not that different than government especially in countries like ours where the public services are pretty good.

The NDP folks are nice and will do a good job in government; they will actually work rather than loll around in the house of corruption avoiding the questions of the opposition parties as I noted when I went to the legislature to present my banned self to my MLA — Mr. Mandel.

She says Canada has some work to do if it wants to catch up to countries where both government and industry fully understand the value of standards — countries that are quickly becoming standards «makers» rather than «followers».

He also leads work with local government authorities, having conducted more than 60 projects throughout China to support local economic development and transformation.

When Mr Soapbox worked for the municipal government years ago, he was told that the reason why he was paid less than the private sector was because a government job was secure and had less risk... then they laid off 40 % of his department.

By Janet Keeping, leader of the Green Party of cialis 5 mg daily how long before it works Alberta The recent controversy over whether the amount of severance paid an Alberta government advisor should be made public tells us a lot more than how much money Steven Carter received when he left the premier's office.

If the returnee hopes to work in foreign affairs, the government could ask the individual to demonstrate proficiency a language other than French, as many Asian nations have a limited number of French speakers.

According to the Finance Minister «The CIDB will be accountable to, and partner with, government, but will operate at greater arm's length than a department — working with provincial, territorial, municipal, Indigenous and investment partners to transform the way infrastructure is planned, funded and delivered in Canada».

The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

It is karoli's understanding that working for the government is just as good, or even better, than working in private industry.

The poor have reappeared in most countries, and governments have become instruments of the rich and powerful working to advance their interests, rather than seeking justice for the poor and weak.

This means we need to see that we are defending more than religious liberty: We are defending the very idea that our government exists to protect the space in which various institutions of civil society do the work that enables Americans to thrive, and we are defending the proposition that this work involves moral formation and not just liberation from constraint.

IF the torture law was seen to work, and there was a dramatic decrease in violent crimes because bad people realized that they were okay with a death sentence, but 25 years of electric niple clamps was more than they were willing to take on, then the government could make the case that they enacted the will of the people by reducing crime.

BP, the company that caused the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, has opted to funnel tens of millions of dollars through state governments rather than private charities doing the bulk of the work in the Gulf Coast region....

This will allow you to lay up even more treasure for yourself, and best of all, the government only taxes investment income at 15 %, which is less than they tax the poor schmuck who works at McDonalds.

In the months immediately after, the government arrested more than 40,000 people, including one American missionary who had worked in the country more than 20 years.

It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.

While he's never made any secret of his faith or the way it plays into his work in Iraq, Courtney insists that he's found the Iraqi government to be far more open and accepting of his beliefs and mission than the commonly held assumption might lead one to believe.

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

A German reaching the peak of his adult powers in the mid-twentieth century - some of whose early works were confiscated by the Nazi government - he eventually found a wider readership in countries other than his native land.

for example, that the dignity of all persons ought to be respected, that tolerance is a virtue and discrimination is abhorrent, that peaceful resolution of conflicts is superior to violence, that generally truth - telling is superior to lying, that democratic government is morally superior to totalitarianism and authoritarianism, that one ought to give a day's work for a day's pay, that saving for one's own and one's country's future is better than squandering one's income and relying on others to attend to one's future needs.

Nick Gibb, the school standards minister was quoted by The Times as saying: «Thanks to the hard work of teachers and this government's continued focus on raising standards and increased emphasis on phonics, six years are reading better than ever before.»

Analysing government figures, Save the Children concluded more than 870,000 women looking after a child a home would rather be in work instead.