Примери за second-tier

• Could a second-tier power take the lead in tackling this second-rank issue?

• Second, the collapse of elite rule should not signal the demise of second-tier elite lineages.

• Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the number of retired persons in receipt of private second-tier pensions grew rapidly as schemes matured.

• Thus, second-tier pensions will become increasingly important for maintaining an adequate income in old age.

• In contrast, only four out of ten elderly women had a private second-tier pension, averaging £51 a week.

• Note that the procedure for adjusting the target level of first-tier benefits has the same effect as both indexation and valorization for second-tier pensions.

• The recent stakeholder pensions are one instance of trying to move from a state to a private second-tier pension.

• However, no such protection is available for second-tier pensions, and significant differences in potential future entitlement were found according to current role occupancy.

• Promotion of schemes is likely to be expensive and the government has not yet decided whether to make such second-tier pension contributions compulsory or not.

• Within the ordinary banking sector, banks were further divided according to size and scope of activity into city or large commercial banks, regional banks and second-tier regional banks.

• Indeed, exogenous-defensive frames have displayed relatively little victimisation of welfare dependants as being fraud-prone or lazy - although second-tier social assistance recipients have, as elsewhere, fared worse.

• Not only had fewer women contributed towards second-tier pensions, but on average they had contributed for a shorter period (13 years compared to 21 years for men).

• There can be no doubt that when second-tier authorities are appointed in this way they bear comparison with an arranged marriage.

• It is very likely that the second-tier authority will aways have as the core the population centre in that area.

• The second-tier authorities must, by definition be smaller than the first-tier authorities, but there is no intrinsic merit in bigness.