Sentence examples for large hikes from inspiring English sources

But the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has repeatedly opposed large hikes in council tax as being unfair on families in a difficult financial climate.

The microbubbles, unlike the tissues and the free gas, are not simply passive reflectors, but expand and compress in response to the stages of compression and rarefaction of the acoustic wave, with increasingly large hikes in diameter.

But the tax credits provide insulation against large hikes, at least for most of those buying on the exchanges, although sometimes consumers must switch plans in order to keep costs low.

Many drivers say gas prices are so low that even a large hike wouldn't register in their wallets.

In Spain ticket sales, the largest remaining source of revenue, have been affected by a large hike in the value-added tax on tickets, to 21 percent from 8 percent.

The three main ratings agencies have also reacted favourably.Although the agony has been spread thin, the most painful new proposal is a large hike in water rates.

Congress and the Clinton administration approved a large hike in military aid to Colombia last year at least in part because the administration promised that the aid would go to a reformed Colombian military.

This is compounded by the announcement in Osborne's budget that social housing rents would be reduced by 1%: so estates around the country will see some tenants experience a large hike in rent while others find their rent is reduced.

"A major risk is that much of this large hike in unemployment becomes structural in nature as many of the unemployed drift into long-term joblessness or drop out of the labor force," said John P. Martin, the O.E.C.D. director for employment.

Mr Kerry is also proposing a large hike in the minimum wage, to $7 an hour from $5.15, and a further expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit a sort of negative income tax, expanded under Mr Clinton, which has been a linchpin of the effort to make the poor self-supporting.Both candidates concentrate on education, which is a major determinant of both poverty rates and the growth of inequality.

"In an otherwise very lightly regulated UK labour market the forthcoming large hike in the minimum wage when the national living wage (NVL) is introduced next year might act as a further incentive to employers to increase their use of zero-hours contracts – which are already very prevalent in sectors where the NVL will bite hardest - in order to minimise the impact on total labour costs".