Sentence examples for against rate from inspiring English sources

Hospitals and physicians are also rebelling against what they consider inadequate payments, and employers are railing against rate increases.

The insured enjoys protection against rate increases unless the rate for all members of the class is increased.

To get the rate on the bonds down as much as possible, New Orleans also issued variable-rate debt, combined with derivatives in an attempt to hedge against rate increases.

"In principle, assets should be sold, but in practice lenders may not benefit, and there may be very nasty ripple effects that no one wants to see happen," says Nick Scarles, the chief financial officer of Grosvenor, a British property company.The picture is further complicated by interest-rate swaps that many borrowers took out to protect them against rate rises.

Crack-closure-free data, ΔKeff (= U ΔK) against rate, were calculated.

You might think that an inflation-indexed bond would protect you against rate increases, but that is only partly true.

Both test and crack-closure analyses have shown that the stress-intensity-factor-range-against-rate curves are affected by the stress ratio (R), the applied stress or load level (Smax or Pmax), and the crack-front constraint (plane-stress or plane-strain behavior).

Back in the 1980s, David Blunkett (Sheffield), Margaret Hodge (Islington) and Graham Stringer (Manchester) initially took stands against rate-capping and budget cuts.

Mr Livingstone faced hostile questioning at yesterday's meeting over his part in the GLC Labour group's recent decision to set a rate in opposition to the London Labour Party's agreed strategy against rate-capping.

The arguments against rate-raising, as opposed to loophole closing, can be wild: rich people are smart, and would just hide more money; a hundred billion dollars here or there wouldn't close the deficit — an argument that Republicans never seem to apply to much smaller amounts allocated for, say, education or cultural programs.

So it should come as no surprise that many districts and states are struggling against rating inflation and other challenges as they begin instituting better systems.