Sentence examples for raise provisions from inspiring English sources

Given the continuing slump in the market, the central bank is now expected to raise provisions to 30%.

It said last week that it would have to inject more money into its American subsidiary, American Re, and that it would raise provisions relating to losses arising from the September 11th attacks last year to $500m.

Likewise, large write-downs in mortgage-related securities and the need to raise provisions for loan losses nearly wiped out all of the fourth-quarter earnings at the Wachovia Corporation, Bank of America's cross-town rival.

The West Virginia Education Association, the larger of the two groups, called the raise provision too vague.

Apart from the straightforward fund-and-raise provisions, the emerging House GOP legislation appears to contain the Vitter amendment and – according to House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer – a provision to strip the Treasury of its ability to deploy emergency measures to avoid default.

This being Congress, one of course can find some eyebrow-raising provisions.

Some lenders complain that they were prevented from raising provisions in early 2007, at the first signs of trouble.The regional banks do at least have plumper cushions than they did going into the last recession.

The company, which is based in Basel, raised provisions, by some $475 million, to cover its exposure to lawsuits over its role in a conspiracy to fix bulk vitamin prices.

BLOOMBERG NEWS   Spain Said to Demand Additional Loan Provisions by Banks  |  Spain plans to require banks to set aside an additional 35 billion euros ($45 billion) against loans to building developers, raising provisions to the equivalent of 30 percent of those loans, Reuters reports, citing unidentified financial people.

Also, the agriculture part has a lot of eyebrow-raising provisions, like the $147 million a year in reparations we send to Brazil to make up for the fact that it won a World Trade Organization complaint about the market-distorting effects of our cotton subsidies.

Under existing House rules, any measure that costs the U.S. Treasury money must be offset by either budget cuts or a revenue-raising provision.