Sentence examples for raise thresholds from inspiring English sources

Pension experts said the chancellor was forced to raise thresholds by his decision to abolish the 10p tax rate on the first £2,150 of taxable income, which would have resulted in a large tax hike for low income pensioners.

Epidemiologic evidence indicates that the most effective way to reduce prostate cancer incidence is to decrease PSA testing, raise thresholds used to define an abnormal PSA result (fig 1 ), 4 and lower the number of tissue core samples obtained in men undergoing a prostate biopsy.

Cost: £1.4bn Conservatives Pledged to raise threshold to £1m Non-domicile tax Promise to consult on imposing charge on non-doms after seven years in UK, and a higher rate after 10 years.

The chance to find like-minded individuals without the traditional intermediary of campaign staffs or fund-raising thresholds breathes needed new life into the political process.

Clegg will say the Lib Dems' proposed "fair tax" package – raising thresholds while closing loopholes that benefit the wealthy and raising taxes on polluting aircraft – offers a way forward.

Take his income tax cuts: over 80p in every £1 spent on raising thresholds and allowances will go to the top half of households; more than 30p will go to the UK's richest 10%.

The cuts are designed to allow a Conservative government to neutralise a planned rise in employee and employer national insurance contributions in April 2011 for everyone earning less than £35,000, by raising thresholds.

First Osborne's budget, which cut tax for higher earners and raised thresholds for those on low incomes, was cackhandedly presented and seemed wide open to charges of unfairness.

Across all conditions, monocular adaptation raised thresholds by around a factor of 2, and observers showed normal binocular summation, demonstrating that they were not binocularly compromised.

They could have shown raised thresholds for the F1-only condition and CMP effects similar to those of adults, leading to equally elevated thresholds in both conditions.

A relationship between raised thresholds and poor function has also been reported when assessed in the chronic stage, both for rMT (Werhahn et al. 2003) and aMT (Thickbroom et al. 2002), although patients have also been described with normal function despite raised thresholds (Byrnes et al. 2001).