Sentence examples for thin safety from inspiring English sources

Continued restraint by the ruling party can help widen democracy's still perilously thin safety margin.

Suburbs, with their thin safety nets, are not well equipped to handle the rising demands for help.

And Mr. Porter, the state's Medicaid director, warns that an increasingly thin safety net could break if Congress expands Medicaid eligibility.

And looming cuts to discretionary spending threaten America's already thin safety net.The 15% poverty rate is calculated using the official federal poverty threshold of $11,702 in annual income for an individual or $23,201 for a family of four, which is about 44% of median income for an individual and 30% for a family of four.

No one quite knows why, but possible factors include America's thinner safety net and deeper poverty.

With lower earnings and higher unemployment rates leaving them with a thinner safety net to begin with, black families were more likely to take funds out of the market when it was depressed, leaving them out in the cold as the market recovered.

BEARS THIN AT SAFETY Chicago has only two safeties heading into the third preseason game against the Giants on Friday: the injured Chris Conte (shoulder) and Brandon Hardin (neck) are out, and the Bears are not certain if they will have either available for the start of the regular season.

Others complain that the plan creates worrisome pressures for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at a time when both companies are struggling with enormous losses and thin financial safety nets.

I look forward to his next play, by which time, I hope, he'll have gone to farce school and learned its golden rule: when you're skating on thin ice, safety lies in speed.

But a thin social safety net means that China's residents save a high share of their disposable income as insurance, offsetting some of the growth effect of low tax rates.

But a thin social safety net means that China's residents must save a high share of their disposable income as insurance, offsetting some of the growth effect of low tax rates.