Sentence examples for increases in utility from inspiring English sources

In interviews, voters complained of stagnant wages, rising prices and increases in utility payments.

He must contend with high world prices for everything from oil to steel, and sharp increases in utility tariffs.

So inflation is on the rise, fuelled also by a rise in the price of petrol and increases in utility tariffs.

Farther up the M-10 Highway is Klin, where an opposition rally was held in March 2009 to protest corruption and increases in utility rates.

"Inflation is expected to be higher in the autumn and into next year than previously forecast, mainly as a result of increases in utility prices due to take effect later this year.

In the weeks leading up to the elections, antigovernment protests were held in several cities, with demonstrators demanding an end to increases in utility rates and automobile taxes, among other complaints.

Normally, Mr. Hall said, a green-built home will absorb that monthly increase in utility savings.

Despite the softness in factory output, a 4.4 percent increase in utility output lifted overall industrial production 0.6 percent, the largest increase since February.

"This increase in utility bills, particularly heating, is just a cheap way to compensate for the deficit of the companies that were recently privatized," declared a resident's committee in Ilsan, a high-rise community northwest of the capital.

The diplomat said he replied by saying, "Really?" On Wednesday, April 7, protests broke out around the country to protest the government's brutality and corruption, as well as the increase in utility rates.

"We are accustomed to an increase in utility prices each year, but now they are talking about increasing petrol by 30% while the government has only promised to give our salary a 20% increase," said Masoud Mirahmadian, a 33-year-old government office worker.