But agricultural workers continue to bear the brunt of difficult conditions and extreme weather.
That has left depositors and Cypriot taxpayers to bear the brunt of the banks' losses.
New York and New Jersey, where Sandy made landfall Monday, continue to bear the brunt of the region's outages.
Historically the first to bear the brunt of a bad economy, small-caps are often the first to bounce back.
The village is the closest to the reservoir, and would be expected to bear the brunt if there were a second spill.
And women will be the ones to bear the brunt of this qualifications-earning gap, as 90% of healthcare support workers are women.
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But Moore seemed to bear the brunt, with some neighborhoods reduced to ruins, with broken cars wrapped around trees and lodged into homes.
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Whether the result is a persistent bad mood, negativity or short temper, the people around you will have to bear the brunt of it.
"The water's got to go somewhere and unfortunately rural communities who live by the riverside are having to bear the brunt of that, " she said.
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It would free up more revenue for the federal government, but it would cause local governments to bear the brunt of the cuts, Fitch points out.
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Since the authorities were constantly neglecting the growing problem of unfair water distribution system, the farmers had to bear the brunt of water scarcity, the farmers alleged.
Commuters in the South East, who already pay some of the highest rail fares in the country, are to bear the brunt of the annual fare rises in January.
France and Germany look likely to bear the brunt of the bailout costs for the southern European states - and this was reflected in the performance of their equity markets.
The committee said this had constrained the chancellor, and meant other departments - which account for 40% of the government's day-to-day spending - had to bear the brunt of cuts.
"Environmental justice, or as I like to call it environmental equality, means that no community should have to bear the brunt of lots of environmental burdens and not enjoy some environmental benefits, " she said.
Pearl's head office at Peterborough is expected to bear the brunt of the job losses, but the firm said the cuts would be spread across the UK, including offices in London, Tunbridge Wells, Cardiff and Bristol.
At the moment, no one knows for sure where the bulk of the liability lay, but from many reports I have read it is BP that is more likely to bear the brunt of the costs.
New England was expected to bear the brunt of the storm, but up to 20 inches of snow were expected in the New York City area, parts of which are still recovering from Sandy, which hit the area in late October.
The result of the SDSR is likely to be a much smaller force, with the RAF expected to bear the brunt of cuts - perhaps retiring its Tornado fast jets earlier than planned, scrapping the Nimrod MRA4 and losing up to 7, 000 personnel.
On the one hand, the government gets to reduce its debt by reorganizing Social Security in a way that would severely delay benefits to those who are in need, thereby leaving the poor and middle-class American to bear the brunt of bringing our debt crisis under control.
Add to that maintaining a constituency about as far from Cardiff Bay as it's possible to get and the fact that he's had to bear the brunt of some pretty nasty - and anonymous - Labour briefings against him and it's hard not to feel at least some sympathy.
This impasse, reduced to its simplest terms, arose because the President refused to consider raising revenues in the fashion and to the extent congressional Democrats believed necessary, while the latter insisted that, in the absence of new taxes, defense spending was going to have to bear the brunt of the needed cuts.
Scooters, chainsaws, motorcycles, motorboats, lawn mowers and so forth are likely to bear the brunt of the pain, but the list is likely to be much longer and may ultimately include an estimated 200 million or so valued assets owned by people in the United States, according to research by an engine manufacturers group.
He said Police Scotland could not be expected to "bear the brunt of these costs alone".
In other words, no single category of renewable energy is growing anywhere near the speed it needs to bear the full brunt of displacing carbon-emitting fossil fuels anytime soon.
On top of paying royalties (of about 11% to 12% of sales) to the franchisor, franchisees often bear the brunt of a promotion's cost.
It is not just that Okinawa, with 0.6% of Japan's land area, has long had to bear a disproportionate brunt of the American presence.
Depending on where you live and whether you are subject to the federal alternative minimum tax (which determines whether you bear the full brunt of your state tax bill or can share it with Uncle Sam), the state tax penalty could easily be worth 35 to 50 basis points.
And areas along the eastern side will bear the brunt of the wintry weather with more than 5cm, and possibly up to 15cm on high ground along the Pennines.
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