Sentence examples for called for benefit from inspiring English sources

"It's almost a year and a half since Labour called for benefit restrictions on new migrants.

Its trustees warned recently that the trust fund is headed toward insolvency, and Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, has called for benefit cuts to head off the long-term financing shortfall.

In a letter this year to the commissioners for the city's Cultural Affairs Department and the Administration for Children's Services, Mr. Page said the city's review had shown that the cultural and day care employees were working under a collective bargaining agreement that called for "benefits greater than those afforded to city employees".

All the council's commissioners called for benefits cuts and higher taxes.

He called for benefits to be cut fairly across the generations: "Let's talk about those benefits that go to everyone over 60 years of age, irrespective of wealth - winter fuel allowance, free bus passes and free prescriptions".

Because of the economic complexities involved, a number of them also call for benefit reductions like raising the retirement age or scaling back cost of living increases.

Still, his position has provided further fire to critics who claim that given his wealth, he is in no position to call for benefit reductions.

It also calls for benefit cuts for parents who refuse all help with disruptive children.

In a leader, the Times calls for benefits to be paid for only two children per family.

A new "all-mode" trans-Pennine route would cost upwards of £5bn, but major investments on similar scales are "now routinely contemplated for London and the south", the leaders note, adding: "The alternative of route improvements will not be capable of delivering the transformational change this proposition calls for, benefiting all parts of the north's geography in a balanced way".

She said: "Labour called for these benefit restrictions nine months ago.