(v. i.) One who owls; esp., one who conveys contraband goods. See Owling, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) And the AMA’s president, Brian Owler, said the performance of hospitals would only get worse after the federal government “retreated from its responsibilities” on hospital funding, cutting $1.8bn in immediate funding over the next four years in the 2014 budget and reneging on a deal to help meet increased hospital costs in the long term, saving $57bn over the next 10 years.
(2) The group’s president, Brian Owler, reaffirmed concerns that disadvantaged groups would be deterred from accessing preventative health care, and called on the government to scrap the co-payment model and seek expert advice.
(3) It’s about removing services for patients,” Owler said.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Prof Brian Owler says poor health policy has plagued the Coalition since the 2014 budget.
(5) The only way to defeat the GP tax is to defeat the Abbott government.” The national president of the Doctors Reform Society, Dr Con Costa, told the ABC: “It is definitely a significant victory, but by no means the end of the battle to maintain Medicare.” The AMA president, Brian Owler, said local GPs and patients had “inundated” MPs with complaints about the initial changes to short consultation rebates, and he believed the level of concern had taken the government by surprise.
(6) Owler said the AMA also did not support allowing state and territory governments to charge co-payments for emergency department visits.
(7) I think the message that was clear today was a commitment on behalf of the prime minister and the minister to look at alternative models, something that we haven't heard before, or since the budget was announced, and I think that's a very positive move,” Owler said at a press conference after the meeting.
(8) Asked to confirm the government had indicated it was willing to adjust the GP co-payment, Owler said: “The prime minister and the minister made it fairly clear in the meeting that they were willing to look at alternative models and consider those on their merits.
(9) Patients’ out-of-pocket expenses could rise as a result of recommendations that 23 medical procedures should no longer be funded by Medicare, the president of the Australian Medical Association, Brian Owler, has warned.
(10) These programs are often built up by people who often put in extraordinary amounts of work and have an enormous amount of experience,” the head of the Australian medical association, Brian Owler, said.
(11) Read more Owler said the health minister was “pre-empting” the outcome of the review by highlighting procedures she thought were unnecessary, effectively “politicising” the process.
(12) Dr Young has first-hand experience and is obviously very experienced working with asylum seekers, and like him, our concerns are also about people in detention, particularly long-term detention, and especially the impact on children.” Prof Brian Owler, president of the Australian Medical Association, said he had “respect for what Dr Young is doing by speaking out,” adding he had “no reason to doubt what he’s saying”.
(13) The first task is to lift the freeze on Medicare patient rebates.” Other priorities outlined by Owler include: a genuine, transparent consultative approach to the Medicare benefits schedule reviews; the restoration of public hospital funding; a review of the private health insurance system; significant new investment in general practice; coordinated medical workforce planning.
(14) The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, said: “Treasurer, if you are a pensioner worried about having your pension cut, if you are a mum worrying about how you’ll be able to afford to take your kids to the doctor and pay the GP tax, if you’re working-class parents – perhaps you work at Alcoa and you’ve just lost your job and you’re worrying about how on earth you’re going to pay for your kids to go to university – the one thing you don’t need is an arrogant, out-of-touch treasurer telling people just to take a chill pill.” Dutton met with the AMA president, Brian Owler, in Brisbane on Thursday night to discuss the government policy of introducing a $7 contribution for standard GP consultations and out-of-hospital pathology and diagnostic imaging services from July next year.
(15) As we’ve been saying, this is an enormous humanitarian crisis that’s facing the people of west Africa and apart from the humanitarian crisis, there are economic and security issues and there are other implications for Australia,” Owler said.
(16) Owler said the review announced on Sunday aimed to take a scalpel to services provided under Medicare.
(17) Sussan Ley denies Medicare consultation will be over in two weeks Read more The AMA had signed up for review of the remuneration paid to doctors for MBS services, Owler said.
(18) The AMA president, Brian Owler, said Abbott and Dutton had indicated they were “willing to look at alternative models and consider those on their merits” – which potentially represented a significant shift on a budget measure that was likely to face Senate defeat.
(19) Both Dutton and Owler described the meeting as productive, although more talks were needed.
(20) Owler, a neurosurgeon at Westmead Children's Hospital in Sydney, said the co-payment would not be a problem for many people.
Smuggler
Definition:
(n.) One who smuggles.
(n.) A vessel employed in smuggling.
Example Sentences:
(1) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
(2) "The government will ban qat so that we can protect vulnerable members of our communities and send a clear message to our international partners and qat smugglers that the UK is serious about stopping the illegal trafficking of qat."
(3) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
(4) Either way, both methods see the smugglers try to squeeze every last drop of profit from their clients.
(5) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
(6) The more the EU closes down one route, the greater the risk that more dangerous routes will emerge, and smugglers are smart,” said Judith Sunderland, acting deputy director for the Europe and Central Asia division of Human Rights Watch.
(7) I would work as a porter without payment Two of the smugglers were themselves Rohingya, including a religious leader, she said.
(8) Those stranded in Greece since detentions began in March sometimes pay smugglers to take them to the Greek mainland and then reach Macedonia on foot, since Macedonia’s new fence does not line the whole border.
(9) Humanitarian organisations also help with rescues at sea, which often occur when smugglers dispatch a dozen or more boats when seas are calm.
(10) Merkel avoided any direct response to the Abbott remarks, but in general commentary about the current flow of refugees, she said right now, the narrow sea lane between Turkey and Greece was under the control of smugglers and traffickers, and this was “unacceptable”.
(11) Eritrean smuggler trial in Sicily has wrong man, say former victims Read more But at a hearing earlier this month, two of the smuggler’s former victims said they did not recognise the detained man , and argued officials had seized the wrong person.
(12) Around 100,000 Syrians live in Izmir, where until a few weeks ago when the EU-Turkey deal was put into effect, smugglers would stroll openly through the central square in the quarter of Basmane.
(13) Smugglers block-booked the rooms of nearby hotels for their clients.
(14) And a dozen European warships are off the Libyan coast, currently tasked with an ineffective mission to intercept the country’s people smugglers.
(15) I just saw him in an article on Facebook and I immediately thought: this is not Mered!” A second witness, whose name is known to the Guardian and will be given to the court, asked not to be named specifically because he believes the real smuggler is still at large in Sudan, and could take revenge on his family there.
(16) At a shelter in the town of Chahuites, several migrants told the story of a Honduran migrant called Beverly who had disappeared a few days earlier: a people smuggler had kidnapped and raped her younger sister, Fatima, whom he was holding prisoner in a nearby town.
(17) In an attempt to discourage potential migrants, European ministers cancelled a naval operation aimed at rescuing stricken smugglers’ boats.
(18) Labor has made clear our commitment to offshore processing and regional resettlement, combined with the policy of turning back boats to ensure people smugglers are denied their trade in exploiting vulnerable people.
(19) The prosecutor of Ragusa, in south-east Sicily, is reportedly waiting for autopsies to be carried out before deciding whether to investigate two men, suspected of being the smugglers, on board for either murder or manslaughter.
(20) But since they’ve come into power there’s been a lot of criticism that a number of these policies – which include things like buying up Indonesian fishing boats and offering Indonesian villagers money in exchange for information on people-smugglers – simply can’t be done without the co-operation of Indonesia.