Sentence examples for benefits shaking from inspiring English sources

She became a political wife, campaigning hard to get her husband elected to the Senate by attending endless charity benefits, shaking hundreds of hands, and speaking at public functions.

Only hours after the Work and Pensions Secretary predicted that the National Audit Office would confirm that his benefits shake-up was delivering value for taxpayers, the watchdog pointedly declined to do so in a report published today.

Related: Abbott government considers childcare benefits shake-up favouring low earners The social services minister, Scott Morrison, said on Friday morning: "We're not ruling anything in or out in this report".

The focus on the government's benefits shake-up came as 660,000 social housing tenants deemed to have a spare room began to lose an average £14 a week in what critics have dubbed a bedroom tax.

Another benefit to shaking, according to George Christou of the University of Florida, is that some cheaper potato vodkas have trace oil in them, and by shaking, the emulsion created hides the oily taste.

Mr Johnson's intervention increased pressure on the Prime Minister, who is already facing opposition from Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers over the housing benefit shake-up.

He believes the benefit shake-up was supposed to make sure that work always paid more than being solely on benefits, but that bureaucratic delays and computer errors are undoing this message.

Lib Dems have backed a review of the government's controversial housing benefit shake-up.

"For me everything is a question of cost and benefit," she said emphatically, shaking her head and her flaming red hair.

The thinking seems to be: let's get people into work but pay them more if they stay on benefits, let's shake up the economy by increasing fuel and public transport costs.

The proportion of men and women in their 50s who are out of the labour force because of illness or disability is among the highest in the OECD.The government has postponed announcing its plans for shaking up incapacity benefits until early 2006.