#significant

Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#already #always #budgets #day #decision

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#arab world #behave #behavior #certain #influence

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#get #going #me #other #parents

But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction. ↗

— David Plouffe

#debt #debt limit #deficit #deficit reduction #get

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant. ↗

— Christina Romer

#estimates #gdp #highly #increase #nearly

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. ↗

— Christina Romer

#highly #impact #increases #large #negative

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#alone #commercial #each #enter #funding

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#development #education #health #inmate #job

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#governments #improving #ngos #play #role

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education. ↗

— Nigel Short

#britain #british #comes #compulsory #education