In Ireland right now, as in so many countries, many large companies are laying off people with experience.

In practice, the banks have consistently dragged their feet on mortgage restructuring and are laying off staff, rather than hiring people who could help them deal with an initiative of the required scale.

And I hope that some of these ideas were at least provocative enough for managers and bosses and business owners and organizers and people who are in charge of other people to think about laying off a little bit and giving people some more time to get some work done.

Having to ask my husband for help because I'm sick, and we're newly married initiating sex with my husband initiating sex with my wife being turned down asking someone out waiting for the doctor to call back getting laid off laying off people this is the world we live in.

Instead of laying off 25 of its workforce in a recession, a company could temporarily reduce workers hours from, say, eight per day to six.

It makes some people better off without making others worse off.

Arab governments switched their people off, so their people migrated online.

Then he went off to his people , swaggering .

Then he went off to his people , swaggering .

Armenians and supporters arrive laying flowers inside Tsitsernakaberd, April 24.

Few among the public were happy that the big banks were rescued, and many did not understand why the financial system had to be saved when their own employers were laying off workers or closing down.

There they were in their business suits, laying in the grass, noticing the changing patterns of wind beside people they didn't know, sharing the rediscovery of wonder.

The rebels keep delaying laying down their arms and this, despite all the sacrifices made by the President in the name of the people of Côte d'Ivoire.

One common interpretation is that integration makes people better off.

As Haldane puts it, banking became the goose laying the golden eggs.

Unfortunately, trying to scare the socks off of people doesn t help matters.

Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Laying kilometer upon kilometer of bitumen is the favored solution for many politicians.

But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai's people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai's people.

At first, attention was directed to creation of mine laying and a submarine fleet.

He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

The Japanese mine laying policy was effective at restricting the Russian movement of its ships outside Port Arthur when on 12 April 1904, two Russian battleships the flagship and the ran into a Japanese minefield off Port Arthur with both striking mines.

Some people jumped off from the building and some were stepped by other people while they were running, she added.

Cutting off aid could have calamitous humanitarian consequences for the nation s 80 million people.

But it also cuts people off from the past and a sense of history.

NermeenEdrees People are taking up from where they left off on Feb 2011 Egypt

We took a dip in the lake after laying in the sun for a while.

Often, illegal terrorist armed groups funded by transnational organized crime were responsible for laying mines.

If people want to step off the conveyor belt, they are free to do so.

Occasionally the factory pays them something, but people mainly live off their own vegetable gardens.

People generally are a lot better off than they were just a few years ago.

Asset prices create a large wealth effect that determines how financially well off people feel.

For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

And yet today Germany is Europe s economic hegemon, laying down the law to miscreants like Greece.

It breeds on crags in mountains in southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia, laying one egg.

About 25 of the species are oviparous (egg laying) the eggs are guarded by the female.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Assistance in capacity building could help municipal authorities in laying the groundwork for accessing capital markets.

The Government also established the JAMSOSTEK Fund (social security fund for workers) in 1977. The Government also set up specific regulations to protect women's reproductive rights through Ministerial Regulation No. 3 of 1989 which prohibits employers from laying off women workers due to marriage, pregnancy or childbirth.

NEW DELHI To hear some people tell it, the bloom is off the Indian economic rose.

Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'

From 2003 to 2004, the number of people accessing social assistance showed a levelling off trend.

Now, it is laying the groundwork to become a global power in more sophisticated, technology intensive industries.

Empowering women locally is an important part of building lasting peace and laying the foundations for development.