Depending on where you go and whom you believe, impending local-authority spending reductions are being carried out with the sensitivity of careful surgery or of a blunt axe, allegedly wielded to embarrass the government.Local authorities' Whitehall grants are to be slashed by 27% in real terms by 2014-15, beginning with a cut of 10% this coming year.
Insisting he was only a bit player in Belgium's jihadist network, he gave no information about any impending attack, the authorities said.
These kinds of worried whispers have always struck me as notable, because they suggest not only a near-mystical faith in Chinese science to be able to predict quakes with certainty, but also the implied belief that people should not expect to hear about the news of an impending quake from authorities, even if they know it is going to happen.
But the F.D.A. isn't able to force manufacturers to produce a drug, and learning about impending shortages with little authority to alleviate them is of limited benefit.
But Housing Led projects have already proved successful in Finland, Denmark and Scotland, where homeless applications in the last of these – a system whereby people notify their local authority of impending homelessness – fell by around 10% from 2012-13.
The only dampener was George Bush's state-of-the-union address this week, which mentioned trade only once, Doha not at all, and seemed sweetly oblivious to the impending demise of his authority to sign trade deals, free of congressional nit-picking.The optimism turns on two magic numbers: 17 and 54.
Earlier this year, when the Assembly Democrats advanced the so-called millionaires' tax, which would have added one percentage point to the income tax rate of New Yorkers making more than $1 million a year, they described it as a solution to the authority's impending fiscal crisis.
Ventura, a retired immigrant laborer, circulates among his children — including a recovering drug addict, a beggar, a museum guard, and a mystical idler who is the last holdout in the crumbling slum — as he negotiates with the authorities over his impending move to a modern, antiseptic new apartment.
The military also came under fire in the aftermath of the Chibok kidnapping after locals said they warned authorities about the impending attack but no troops came to protect the girls, a charge the army denied.
Will individual physicians (i.e., the "astute clinicians") truly recognize an increase of nonspecific symptoms among their patients in time to warn public health authorities of an impending bioterrorism event?
The rebels are worried about the impending extradition of Omaira Rojas, who authorities here say will be a font of information for American officials.
