Sentence examples for harsh benefit from inspiring English sources

Yet, if it can survive this recession, Nigeria may find some harsh benefit in a lower oil price.

Osborne's long-term plan stays in the saddle, low pay, harsh benefit cuts and a permanently shrinking state – "a rollercoaster" warns the OBR.

Prompt payment of benefits and tax credits, coupled with a less harsh benefit sanctions regime would more than halve the numbers of people reliant on emergency food parcels, it says.

In the harsh benefit-bashing climate of austerity Britain, disability charities reported that "scrounger" rhetoric had provoked a surge in abuse towards disabled people on the streets.

Chris Mould, chairman of the trust, said: "It's been extremely tough for a lot of people, with parents not eating properly in order to feed their children and more people than ever experiencing seemingly unfair and harsh benefits sanctions".

In February a Lord Ashcroft poll gave his the SNP a lead of 50 per cent, against 21 per cent for the Lib Dems amid suggestions that Mr Alexander was being blamed for his role as a willing accomplice to the harsh benefits cuts brought in by the Tory-led Coalition. Tory-led Coalition

Although the report backs the principle of sanctions, it criticises the government for being unable to demonstrate that a harsher benefit regime introduced by the work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith two years ago has encouraged claimants back to work.

She added: "Action is needed across a number of areas, for example strengthening the role of local authorities in supporting access to private rented accommodation, reversing the harshest housing benefit cuts, and sustained job creation".

fades remarkably quickly with just a modicum of empathy, truth and a rational, medically sound alternative to treatment that is often harsh and without benefit.

Commenters on all sides are quick to point out that they first sprang up under the last Labour government, but the need for them has increased dramatically since the introduction of the bedroom tax in April, and harsh sanctions for benefit claimants.

Likewise, a plurality of past and present Tory voters rejects the majority view that wealthy tax dodgers deserve harsher treatment than benefit cheats.