(1) The universal credit would also track claimants' income monthly rather than yearly, so reducing the risk of over- or underpayment.
(2) Never knowingly undersold is a weak motto unless it includes never knowingly underpaying a workforce.
(3) Many newspapers and magazines targeted the broader--and thornier--issue of national health care reform, but narrower and no less critical issues also received play, including Medicaid underpayment, emergency department overcrowding and HIV testing for health care workers.
(4) If eBay sellers are found to be breaching UK VAT compliance rules, we will cooperate with HMRC in all cases where HMRC provides evidence of underpayment of taxes.” Amazon said sellers on its site were “independent businesses responsible for complying with their own VAT obligations”.
(5) The ruling has sweeping implications, because documented compliance with a tax system no longer guarantees a corporation that it is safe if that system is not operating properly: both Fiat and Starbucks will now likely face bills for past underpayments.
(6) You are effectively overpaying some people in some areas more than they need because the cost of living is so low, and you are underpaying people in expensive areas, leading to shortages and possibly poorer quality of teaching."
(7) Flexible mortgages Although there is no set definition for the term, a flexible mortgage is widely accepted to do the following: · Allow you to overpay by any amount without penalty, including redeeming the loan · Allow you to take payment holidays or underpay providing you have overpaid enough in advance · Allow you to borrow back on the mortgage (or drawdown) without charging However, not all flexible mortgages offer all of these features, and some are available on "regular" mortgages.
(8) A lawyer for Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat who left the US last week after indictment for visa fraud and underpaying domestic staff, has asked a US judge to throw out the charges against her.
(9) Southern Cross – which is responsible for looking after 31,000 elderly residents – has announced that it will underpay its rent for the next four months as it struggles with a £230m annual rental bill.
(10) In total, £19m has been underpaid with an average individual total underpayment of £800.
(11) Is it wise to underpay a workforce that the country relies upon for its economic stability?
(12) Exploitation within this sector "bears a striking resemblance to that found in the GLA-enforced sectors: underpayment of wages, debt bondage, excessive hours, spurious deductions, dangerous and unsafe working conditions," he says.
(13) This creates the potential to underpay for patients who develop the common complication of delayed graft function.
(14) It says the best solution is to pay SMI at the rate applying to individual borrowers' mortgages, ensuring no over- or underpayments.
(15) The union said it had concerns the tax will provide a disincentive for employers to pay workers appropriately, and instead encourage a black market economy with cash-in hand wages, from dodgy contractors who underpay and exploit their workers.
(16) Russian 'troll factory' sued for underpayment and labour violations Read more Unmasked after two months in the job, Savchuk was sacked after she published articles under a pseudonym in local newspapers denouncing the “propaganda factory”.
(17) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has failed to protect female migrant domestic workers from beatings, hunger, overwork, underpayment and forced labour, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday, urging authorities in the Gulf State to end the traditional kafala visa sponsorship system, which perpetuates much of the exploitation.
(18) This sum could be put towards future energy use, and you don't want to find yourself on the opposite end of the spectrum and in debt to your supplier by underpaying.
(19) According to the International Domestic Workers Federation, employers who exploit or underpay their domestic workers make $8bn (£5.1bn) a year in illegal profits.
(20) India has ratcheted up the pressure on US diplomats in Delhi as the deadline nears for the indictment of an Indian envoy in New York charged with visa fraud and underpaying a maid.
Underplay
Definition:
(v. i.) To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
(v. i.) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.
(n.) The act of underplaying.
Example Sentences:
(1) "References to 'the miracles' that companies are able to perform risks underplaying the role that donors like DfID and country governments have in ensuring that economic development provides benefits to the poorest in society."
(2) Your obituary of Michael Meacher (22 October) underplays his significant contribution to the promotion of genuinely green policies.
(3) Such detail was generally underplayed or not accessible, and its full significance for children in each family could only be assessed by combining direct personal clinical involvement with record linkage methods, depending in turn on good co-operation from all agencies concerned wholly or partly with child protection.
(4) Barlow says the importance of studying literature should not be underplayed.
(5) @Camila_nobrega Media platforms should make complex development issues accessible to the public: An important role of the media is to simplify development information but also to handle academic research without underplaying its complexity.
(6) But it was important that MPs did not duck or underplay the importance of welfare reform.
(7) But the findings, though grim, may underplay the threat to survival of North America’s birds.
(8) At Ukip’s spring conference last week Farage was emphatic: “I don’t think anybody for one moment can underplay just how important, just how fundamental that byelection is for the futures of both the Labour party and indeed of Ukip too – it matters and it matters hugely,” he said.
(9) In the end, though, it is difficult to underplay the part that money played in the transfer – including for Lanzini’s advisers and associates.
(10) While the intended thrust of this paper has been to elicidate the tremendous potential of the behavioral-ecological perspective for health care research and application, the intent has not been to underplay the important role of the biological sciences in the same venture.
(11) Overplaying natural variations in the weather as climate change is just as much a distortion of science as underplaying them to claim that climate change has stopped or is not happening."
(12) But Sánchez, who wants to focus on social and economic development programmes, continues to publicly underplay the devastating impact of crime on ordinary people’s lives.
(13) Kieron is a thoughtful and level-headed young man, so he may have underplayed events unfolding at sea to make sure we wouldn't worry.
(14) I feel that he is vastly underplayed at both the club and international level."
(15) One Ohio official, addressing Frost, said: “You're not entitled to a pain-free execution.” Waisel told the Guardian that, were initial reports from eyewitnesses accurate, the only mistake he made in his legal declaration was to underplay the length of time it would take for McGuire to lose consciousness.
(16) A report's value can be overplayed if it tells us what we want to hear, or it can be underplayed if it contains unwelcome news or runs against received wisdom.
(17) Fellow actors still analyse the almost throwaway technique of understatement with which he upstaged Laurence Olivier during that player's prime and held his own with Charles Laughton, a grand master of underplayed idiosyncracy.
(18) But lawyers and families of plaintiffs from the Brown case were urged by other speakers not to underplay their momentous achievement during the emotional lunch at the National Press Club.
(19) They find that the circumstances in which competency becomes an issue determine which elements of which tests are stressed and which are underplayed.
(20) The British nuclear industry has a fairly decent safety record, but prudence and openness is vital because the global atomic industry has long been associated with secrecy and has in the past initially underplayed incidents, the worst being the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine.