Sentence examples for competitive burden from inspiring English sources

Those pension (and health care) costs became a competitive burden.

Many domestic manufacturers say that soaring health care costs have become their chief competitive burden.

We need to invest in a health care system that improves the quality of American lives, enhances productivity, puts large numbers of additional people to work and eases the competitive burden of U.S. corporations.

Top items on the auto industry's wish list in the second term of the Bush administration will be renewing tax credits for advanced-technology vehicles, including hybrid cars, and relief on soaring health care costs, which have been a crippling competitive burden for domestic automakers.

But Judge Henderson, who was appointed to the Federal bench by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, wrote that under the agency's plan, dolphins continued to be killed and American fishermen were bearing a competitive burden as a result of delays in providing figures that were the fault of the foreign governments.

Our infrastructure is so decrepit that it is not only a competitive burden; it is dangerous to our health.

Mr. Lindsey also spoke of the dizzying complexity of today's pension rules, the perverse incentives that they can give companies to game their pension numbers, and the competitive burdens that pensions place on American industries in a global economy.

It is thus only logical to expect some trade-off, an advantage conferred by rope-building determinant enough as to overcome the competitive burdens brought about by crowding.

Depending on who you are talking to, Uefa's financial fair play (FFP) rules are either an anti-competitive burden cooked up by an out-of-touch regulator or football's last chance to save itself from its worst excesses.

And it means getting our tax rates low and competitive, minimising the burden of regulation so that business and entrepreneurship can flourish.Now, that all sounds pretty reciprocal.

If the country imposing the export duty supplies only a small share of the world's exports and if competitive conditions prevail, the burden of an export duty will likely be borne by the domestic producer, who will receive the world price minus the duty and other charges.