I have never voted for a tax increase.
We need to not reduce but increase our commitment to research.
I can’t apply $3 billion in capital to the tech industry. It wouldn’t work. But in infrastructure, education, I can make a real difference. I can change someone’s life, for the better, permanently. If I can improve a kid’s education, I can increase their salary later on and for decades.
In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
If you don’t understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
I think the more you can kind of decrease yourself and kind of increase other people’s stories and give them the light, I think that’s what it’s all about. Whether it’s community service or giving back to the community in different ways or helping people, it’s not about yourself.
A lot of people think growth hormone is going to increase the size of your internal organs which bloats the waistline. So I went and had a battery of tests where they actually measure all of your internal organs and mine were all normal.
The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven’t existed in the past.
A lot of people say, ‘OK, I’m overweight, so I’m not going to eat any food; I’m only going to have an apple a day,’ but then your body will go into starvation mode, so what you’ve got to do is increase your metabolism.
This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they’ve got almost two hours to do whatever they’ve got to do while the kids watch the movie.
The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.
Ironically, while many of us spend hours every day using small mobile devices to increase our productivity and efficiency, interacting with these objects, even for short periods of time, might do just the opposite, reducing our assertiveness and undermining our productivity.
Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.
As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President’s budget.
In a two-sided market, focusing on the customer will increase a business’s ability to extract value from the supply side.
The energy transition demands a clear vision of the steps that need to be taken and a stable, meaningful regulatory framework. It appears important to us to awaken public opinion to the fact that this transition will necessarily come at a cost and will, at least in the short term, involve a price increase.
I don’t think about the reader when I’m writing, but I do when I’m editing, of course. For instance, I self-consciously didn’t want to do anything to increase the divide between mothers and nonmothers – I think that divide is so horrible and destructive and unnecessary.
Everyone is now praying at the altar of every last dollar of profits to please shareholders. If you invest in your people and treat them well, it’s a different way to increase profits.
Jason Rezaian, held for 544 days in Iran, was not a spy but rather a ‘Washington Post’ journalist whose work aimed to increase cultural understanding between Iran and the world.
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so may a man be born with certain faculties within him, faculties belonging to the soul, which he can develop by training and by discipline.
If you start free trade with a Communist country, allow them to develop their own businesses, they don’t remain communistic. They become a free society when they’re able to make money themselves, and we increase trade with them and allow them to really produce products.
As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.
Negative interest rates hurt banks’ balance sheets, with the ‘wealth effect’ on banks overwhelming the small increase in incentives to lend.
We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies… that is undesirable.
Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.
If we’re going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries.
At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.
When you increase productivity, economies become better – local economies become better, society becomes better.
Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies – an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as ‘investment.’
When bureaucrats talk about increasing our ‘access’ to x, y or z, what they’re really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to ‘increase’ Internet ‘access.’
Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.
Exporting firms are more productive and pay higher wages than their domestically focused counterparts, especially in places like Sub-Saharan Africa. If firms manage to thrive in world markets, they tend to increase their productivity even more.
Normally, when politicians talk about ‘cutting the budget,’ they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim to have ‘cut the budget.’
Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.
The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.
Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy.
The more medals I win, the more my ambitions and confidence levels increase.
Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Visas represent one bureaucratic obstacle, so to say and, if removed, might increase the inflow of Russian money into the Czech economy. And not only Russian money, but Russian tourists, Russian entrepreneurs and so on.
As a first-generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it.
We want to make sure that tax reform doesn’t increase the size of the deficit.
If you turn on the stress response chronically for purely psychological reasons, you increase your risk of adult-onset diabetes and high blood pressure.
Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
That’s one of my focuses, is to increase my flexibility and strength and have greater range of motion.
I certainly wouldn’t want to be a Republican who votes to significantly increase taxes for certain segments of the general public.
While everyone is entitled to a little vacation now and then, America’s top legal officers should adhere to basic measures to increase accountability and restore the public’s trust in government.
