"Costs of renting and buying a home are way beyond the means of the average Londoner, " he said.
So many governments want to live well beyond the means of their taxpayers.
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Even this pittance was beyond the means of many Haitians, and she would accept perhaps a bag of fruit instead.
But such innovation is beyond the means of most British councils, some of which operate lights that are more than 50 years old.
Meanwhile, a series of hikes by the Federal Reserve raised interest rates from 1 percent to 5.25 percent, pushing many adjustable rate mortgages beyond the means of borrowers, Dodd said.
The overheated art market of the 1980s has cooled only a little since, and is still way beyond the means of many interested in owning a piece of collectible art.
While high-end evaluation methods like randomized control trials (RCTs) are the surest means of determining what interventions in fact cause certain outcomes, they are also time-consuming and costly and beyond the means of many, if not most, mainstream nonprofits.
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"Due to the scale of the financial challenge facing the council next year and beyond means that we must continue to take a proactive approach to the delivery of efficiency savings to allow us to balance the budget and protect services in key priority areas, " he said.
The country's remoteness means that it is beyond the reach of most low-cost airlines, which have fuelled tourism in Europe and Asia.
No one ever expects to regain the intoxicant levels of the boom years, but neither is it considered necessarily bad to stop living beyond our means on a raft of imported dreams. (It has certainly spelled immediate relief for the environment.) Painful, difficult times allow for painful, difficult changes.
The Queen will even go to Bourke, a dusty town which is a byword in Australia for the remote outback - "Back o' Bourke" means the back of beyond or middle of nowhere in Aussie-speak.
Perhaps the most important cause of our economic malaise is that for years as a nation we have been living beyond our means, in deficit with the rest of the world, buying from other countries far more than we produce, till our indebtedness became unsustainable.
Last summer Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi decided that the team could no longer operate beyond its means and sold off the crown jewels in the shape of Thiago Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to PSG.
The Beyond the Cardboard movement is a re-envisioning of what it means to give a voice to the voiceless.
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The Space Launch System will give the nation a safe, affordable and sustainable means of reaching beyond our current limits and opening up new discoveries from the unique vantage point of space.
The report said not enough was being done to help the most vulnerable and accused the council of 'living beyond its means'.
The current state of our economy drives home the hard truth that living beyond our means has caught up to us.
Smells like overbalance toward the fools and cads on Wall Street than the over-reaching purchasers of homes beyond their means.
That anyone with an internet connection can sit in on a virtual lecture from Mr DeLong means that his ideas move freely beyond the boundaries of Berkeley, creating a welfare gain for professors and the public.
And they have found that the limit is far beyond the reach of today's technology, which means that there is plenty of scope to increase capacity in future or, to look at it the other way round, that the present glut is even bigger than it looks.
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And those systems can be used to help expand routine vaccination and other health activities, which means the legacy of polio eradication will live beyond the disease itself.
Despite that restriction, I would like to make it clear that in the performance of my profession, I had no means but my pen and my speech and that in using those means, I never went beyond the narrow and limited confines of the Iranian government's laws and regulations.
That means a larger health-care agenda beyond the GOP talking points of medical malpractice and cross-state insurance purchases.
When the music stops, countries living beyond their means must lower their standard of living one way or another.
But if yacht hire is beyond your means then the public ferry to Staten Island also provides great views of Manhattan from the water.
It houses detainees who are waiting to be shipped back to their country of birth after failing to get asylum, staying beyond the length of their visa, or committing a criminal act that means they will be deported.
Its age, and the finite speed of light, means no astronomer can look beyond a distance of 13.7 billion light-years.
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Also, be wary of creating the allusion of power and success by surrounding yourself with material items beyond your means.
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That means that the exchange traded fund industry may have already moved beyond the realm of the average investor before he even understood what the initials ETF stand for.
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