Sentence examples for be asked to absorb from inspiring English sources

Under the Cuomo administration's proposal, Ilion would be asked to absorb a new $1.1 million cut, on top of the $450,000 cut it took last year.

Not to rain on your beach parade, but come fall you'll probably be asked to absorb even bigger cost increases than in the last few years.

Some senior military officers feared that they would be asked to absorb reductions in their budgets of as much as 20%.

But they said that it was Halliburton's responsibility to ensure that it paid a reasonable amount for the fuel, and that if the price was determined by the Pentagon to be excessive, Halliburton, not the subcontractor, would be asked to absorb the difference.

We're being asked to absorb higher and higher maintenance to save a low price for some person 5 or 10 years down the line.

It is cities which are asked to absorb the people pushed off their land by industrial agriculture, or forced to leave their provinces due to cuts in federal employment programmes.

Speaking anonymously for fear of reprisals, many musicians say they are tired of being asked to absorb their orchestras' financial woes while executives use those troubles to exact even higher salaries.

"I find it very unfortunate that private, not-for-profit universities are being asked to absorb the cost of Osama bin Laden's attack on New York," said Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, a Democrat from Manhattan, who has requested a meeting with FEMA.

This has led not only to a warmer climate but also to significant changes in the chemistry of the oceans, which have long acted as a sink for carbon emissions but are being asked to absorb more than they can handle.

The three male actors, their scripts and sheet music clutched tightly, had barely learned the melody of the first song when they were asked to absorb harmonies, blocking and dance steps, all of it being invented on the fly by the director, Lisa Peterson ("An Iliad"), and the music director, Lance Horne.

Their technique has been honed and honed and, by the time they took part in last Thursday's ridiculous semi-final – where they went to Spain, ate mould and were asked to absorb and replicate an experimental high-concept restaurant's entire ethos after just a morning's training – each of them looked like a serious contender.