Sentence examples for increases on existing from inspiring English sources

The bill sought to crack down on credit card issuers by setting a cap on interest rate increases and prohibiting interest rate increases on existing debt.

Abbey Life, a British insurer, has been closed to new business since February 2000, but it accepts increases on existing policies and new members to some pre-existing occupational pension plans.

It would ban interest rate increases on existing balances unless payment is more than 30 days late, and it would forbid "double-cycle billing," which means charging interest on debts paid off the previous month.

But small businesses were not included in the credit card reform legislation signed into law last month by President Obama, which limits excessive fees and interest rate increases on existing balances starting next year.

Federal regulators say they have not received enough complaints for this issue to register; the 1,620 complaints last year over national banks' disclosures of credit card terms were mostly about rate increases on existing accounts.

Last year, the Federal Reserve announced new rules for credit card issuers that would rein in controversial practices like arbitrary rate increases on existing balances.

Through a brief discussion on the mechanism of this positive effect, this paper proposes that applying some artificial tuned-mass system can be a possible method to overcome unfavourable working conditions or even allow speed increase on existing lines.

"The TIF district can't survive just on the increase in increment on existing properties," said Alderman Jason Ervin, whose 28th Ward covers much of the district.

Furthermore, our forecasting model increases frequencies on existing routes, but does not take into account potential impacts of the EU-ETS on airline strategies concerning aircraft size, frequencies or the discontinuation of existing routes.

These trends may translate to an expansion, rather than a contraction, of the WA-MCF landscape in sub-Saharan Africa, as the present realities of climate change, industrialization and increased pressure on existing land resources portend an inevitable increase in human-wildlife-livestock conflict for the limited pastures, providing ideal conditions for WA-MCF transmission.

It said the agency had fallen behind in its work because of a growth in offshore drilling and increased activity on existing wells after Hurricanes Ivan, Katrina and Rita, in 2004 and 2005.