"It is a difficult settlement for the NHS, no doubt about it," he said.
Council leader David Parker said: "The settlement is a difficult settlement in difficult, austere times but it's a fair settlement".
These are big and worrisome tax changes, and they may complicate already difficult settlement discussions.
Masks of zero population are another alternative, though aside from waterbodies (for which reliable and sufficiently high resolution data is rare), deciding what constitutes an area of no human habitation is difficult, with settlements existing around the world in national parks, industrial areas and deserts for instance.
A spokesperson for Denbighshire Council said: "Denbighshire council has been expecting a difficult budget settlement and we have been preparing for it.
Leader of Daventry District Council, Chris Millar, said: "Like other councils, we find ourselves with a particularly difficult grant settlement and are having to cut our cloth to fit.
He said the Lord Chief Justice was approaching the matter from his own perspective and that of the judiciary, but Mr Ford had to deal with a very difficult budget settlement.
BBC London's political editor Tim Donovan said there had been speculation that, having been cushioned from some of the toughest austerity in the run-up to the Olympics and Mr Johnson's re-election, London was about to receive a difficult financial settlement.
- Efficiency of EPI is lower with the outreach strategy in Ngong health district because of poor implementation of planned immunization sessions, a difficult population settlement situation and inadequate social mobilization.
If the past is any guide, the two sides are stymied over difficult issues like settlements and borders.
What remains of this salient is a patch of rocky, mountainous terrain with few settlements, difficult for rebels to hold, since Mr Assad has a monopoly of air power and heavy artillery.Yabroud's fall may prove to be a minor watershed.
