Sentence examples for a difficult financial environment from inspiring English sources

Yet in a difficult financial environment, startlingly large numbers of corporations are slashing dividends anyway.

The middle classes might benefit from a lower inflation rate, but in a difficult financial environment disposable incomes will remain strained until investment picks up.

Dodson, who was also Australia's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander human rights commissioner, praises the work of the organisation, but says they are in a difficult financial environment.

Acknowledging that children's services were operating in a difficult financial environment, Munro said: "Too often questions are asked if rules have been met but not whether this has helped children.

Understanding of survivorship issues is vital to inform service development and interventions, and facilitate targeted provision, with the latter being increasingly important as the number of survivors rises in a difficult financial environment.

One of the challenges is how to achieve this in a very difficult financial environment".

Helen Birtwhistle, its director, said: "The NHS continues to operate in an extremely difficult financial environment but all staff are working very hard to find necessary savings at the same time as making improvements to the safety and quality of care".

"In this extremely difficult financial environment," Delta said in a statement, "the company must pursue all opportunities to reduce costs".

Reflecting the difficult financial environment for higher education, university endowments lost an average of 18.7 percent in the last fiscal year, the worst returns since the Great Depression, according to a study of hundreds of public and private institutions.

"You overlay on that the very difficult financial environment that we're in at the moment and all of that says, therefore, that this is not something to be undertaken lightly".

The diocese is in a difficult financial position.