(1) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(3) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(4) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(5) The Department for International Development (DfID) defines funding provided under the VUP as "financial aid to government".
(6) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(7) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(8) It added that the crisis had highlighted significant weaknesses in financial regulation, with further measures needed to strengthen supervision.
(9) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
(10) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
(11) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
(12) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
(13) The legs of that argument were cut off by the financial crisis.
(14) Given the financial crisis this government inherited, we had no choice but to make significant savings.
(15) Uncertainty and risk concerns remain in financial markets.
(16) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(17) Yet private student loans – given out by banks and financial institutions to the students who can’t get a federal loan – don’t get as much attention as the federal system.
(18) BAE is likely to have made provision for much heavier penalties and its financial stability will not be threatened.
(19) Only 23% provided any financial support to younger generations.
(20) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
Pecuniary
Definition:
(a.) Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recommendations were also put forward that no damages should be permitted for non-pecuniary loss during the first 3 months and that the full value of the social security benefits should be deductible from all tort damages.
(2) Mark Stephens, a media lawyer with London firm Finers Stephens Innocent, said that if Werritty had handed out business cards, he might have been "obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception" if he benefited by allowing others to assume he was Fox's real adviser.
(3) Section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006 makes it a criminal offence, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to dishonestly make a false representation with the intention of putting someone at risk of pecuniary loss or with the intention of making a pecuniary gain for another.
(4) He says he has forgotten what gifts were declared on his pecuniary interests register but suggested you declare everything unless it is well below the threshhold.
(5) No one could’ve been more suitable for this role than he, who bubbled away his evenings in Simpson’s in the Strand or the Cafe Royal, who spent royally when he had money and borrowed regally when he didn’t, and whose contacts with the working class – with the exception of servants – were at once amatory and pecuniary.
(6) The prime minister’s pecuniary interest register does not list his daughter’s scholarship.
(7) It remains unclear why, having checked the value of this box, the premier did not also check the value of the "wonderful wine" he had received from Di Girolamo, nor declare it in his pecuniary interests register.
(8) The company could be prosecuted, suggests McCabe, for "possible offences committed against the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as well as conspiracy and obtaining a pecuniary advantage".
(9) David Howarth, a former Lib Dem MP and a law lecturer at Clare college Cambridge, writing on theguardian.com , suggested: "Section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006 makes it a criminal offence, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to dishonestly make a false representation with the intention of putting someone at risk of pecuniary loss or with the intention of making a pecuniary gain for another.
(10) On the same date, according to her pecuniary interests register , she had complimentary tickets to Opera Australia’s New Year’s Eve celebrations.
(11) But according to the statement of ministerial standards , written by Tony Abbott, “ministers must have regard to the pecuniary and other private interests of members of their immediate families, to the extent known to them, as well as their own interests, in considering whether a conflict or apparent conflict between private interests and official duty arises”.
(12) This group denounced the practice of doctors attending normal births for pecuniary reasons, thus displacing midwives.
(13) In particular, there is a great need to investigate the cost-effectiveness of therapies and then persuade physicians, via pecuniary and nonpecuniary incentives, to behave in a manner which leads to more equitable and efficient health care outcomes.
(14) If Palmer wins his own lower house seat of Fairfax, his first challenge as a member is filling out the pecuniary interest register, where he has to declare company directorships, shares, property, incentives and gifts.
(15) "The finding of a violation constitutes in itself sufficient just satisfaction for any non-pecuniary damage sustained by the applicant," it said.
(16) Monday evening’s letter said the humanitarian aid would be fiscally neutral, not affecting the budget, that aid to the poor would be “non-pecuniary”, for example by issuing food stamps.
(17) Ministers must have regard to the pecuniary and other private interests of members of their immediate families, to the extent known to them, as well as their own interests, in considering whether a conflict or apparent conflict between private interests and official duty arises,” the standards say.
(18) Even major changes in reimbursement policies will not affect the relative pecuniary attractiveness of procedure-oriented medical subspecialties.
(19) On Thursday the prime minister’s office maintained that the scholarship did not need to be declared on Abbott’s pecuniary interests register as it was “not a gift, it is an award based on merit and disclosure is not required”.
(20) The registrar of the parliamentary pecuniary interest registers, Claressa Surtees, told New Matilda the disclosure rules for parliamentarians did not provide a comprehensive list about what should or should not be disclosed.