At a time when other sectors are struggling in a harsh economic climate, the UK gardening industry is buoyant, with a turnover of more than £5bn a year, fuelled by an increased interest in the environment and the role of gardens in maintaining habitats, and the grow-your-own movement.
The coalition argues this is necessary to reduce the deficit, and is fair at a time when public sector pay is being capped and salaries in the private sector are rising below the rate of inflation.
Investors feared that a tax might hurt bank profits at a time when the sector was trying to recover from the financial crisis, analysts said.
At a time when private sector debt is heading up towards 200% of GDP, I'd be inclined to think decreasing private savings is a bad thing.
Now he will have a role in presenting the views of the Russell Group to the government at a time when the sector desperately needs some influence.
If they just press ahead with substantial bonuses at a time when public sector workers are being laid off, there will be political consequences.
Mr. Mayo said he began attending energy conferences several years back, at a time when the sector had already underperformed the market for about seven years.
Our struggle to rebuild the budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities comes at a time when every sector of America's humanities community is strained financially.
How much comes from what the baby sees in the early months of life, a time when the sector of the brain that controls vision, the visual cortex, is developing its neural wiring?
The Welsh Liberal Democrat leader, Kirsty Williams, said: "At a time when public sector workers have seen their pay packets either frozen or rise only slightly, it is wrong to hand out such a huge hike in assembly members' pay".
