Sentence examples for tight settlement from inspiring English sources

Brendan Barber, the TUC general secretary, welcomed much of the chancellor's statement but said: "Some parts of the public sector have received a very tight settlement.

"We now face not just a tight settlement but daunting investment challenges in distribution, infrastructure and technology that risk diverting money away from content creation," said Mark Thompson, above, the director general of the BBC.

But he warned future flood defence works might be hampered by a tight funding settlement.

Even without these issues, Polly Toynbee has warned on these pages that the NHS has a very tight financial settlement.

A tight financial settlement cannot be a reason not to do things differently," Sturgeon is due to say at a lecture at the Edinburgh international television festival.

But the tight financial settlement imposed by Britain's Treasury last month a 1.4% increase in Scotland's block grant over three years means that Mr Salmond has had to trim back his ambitions.

David Cameron accepts Lansley's argument that the NHS must change to cope with an ageing population and its tightest spending settlement in a generation.

Despite the special protection the NHS enjoys - it is getting a 0.1% increase in its budget each year this Parliament - it is still in the middle of its tightest ever settlement.

That is 13 times less than its previous tightest four-year settlement - in the late 1970s.

The delayed settlement and tight packing of a near-normal complement of GPT neurons into this smaller ablated neocortex merely emphasize the presence of the middle lamina of principal PP neurons as usually found during its immature stage (Luskin and Shatz, 1985; Xie et al., 2009).

Some of the phrases they gave me, such as the phrase "vast majority" (used twice) were pretty vague, and because I hadn't seen the actual language, I was reporting only what I was told, but it sounded like we were headed toward fairly tight release language on the settlement.