How to Use noneconomic in a Sentence
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The cap applies to noneconomic damages, such as loss of companionship, in all adult wrongful death claims.
— Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2018 -
The two sides also agreed on several key noneconomic issues, such as heat safety.
— Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 25 July 2023 -
However, noneconomic factors like childcare challenges, job burnout and concerns about the virus still may keep some people out of the workforce.
— Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2021 -
The jury ruled that John Deere must pay about $6.2 million in economic damages and $3.3 million in noneconomic damages, the latter for the girl’s pain and suffering.
— oregonlive.com, 4 June 2019 -
The jury awarded $3.75 million to one patient and $3 million to the other, all of it for emotional harm and other noneconomic injury.
— Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2022 -
Yang’s very language highlights the noneconomic benefits of work.
— Matthew Continetti, National Review, 25 July 2019 -
Experts agree that the unions are finding newfound success because of worker anger about noneconomic issues.
— Chris Isidore, CNN, 11 Sep. 2022 -
Among the noneconomic issues the company and the unionized workers see eye-to-eye on is giving drivers 24 hours notice before a supervisor ride along.
— Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 7 July 2023 -
The trends in many noneconomic measures of well-being are even worse: In 1980, life expectancy in the United States was typical for an industrialized country.
— David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023 -
In the past decade, many executives, like the country at large, have moved in Democrats’ direction on noneconomic issues such as immigration, race, gay and transgender rights, and climate.
— Greg Ip and Ken Thomas, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2020 -
All of the humanities and the noneconomic social sciences in universities have a simple message.
— WSJ, 11 June 2017 -
Which leaves a final, mostly noneconomic explanation for why wages are stuck in neutral: Workers lack the bargaining power to demand more.
— Evan Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018 -
Haji’s parents are seeking a jury trial and noneconomic damages of $5.8 million.
— oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2020 -
Court records show that $3.6 million of the $4.3 million awarded to Cronnon in compensatory damages are classified as noneconomic damages.
— Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2022 -
The suit alleges that the teen's death resulted from Lane County's negligence and seeks unspecified economic and noneconomic damages.
— Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 28 Mar. 2018 -
Can and should trade relations with China be divorced from U.S. national security and other noneconomic interests, even if trade war is akin to pointing a gun at one’s own head and threatening to pull the trigger?
— WSJ, 8 Jan. 2019 -
Caps on Damages Another path these laws have taken is to cap the amount of noneconomic damages awarded to plaintiffs — compensation for losses that, unlike medical bills or wages, cannot be easily measured, such as the loss of a child.
— James O’Donnell, ProPublica, 12 July 2023 -
Now Washington must become multilingual—to learn to examine noneconomic problems from other points of view.
— Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022 -
Yet despite these gestures, there has been little progress on most of the union’s top noneconomic priorities, such as grievance procedures, and the company has sought broad contract provisions that could substantially weaken the union.
— Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 22 May 2023 -
That stance has already yielded accords on numerous noneconomic issues.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023 -
The plaintiffs, referred to as Jane Doe 1, 2, 3 and 4, are requesting a jury trial and monetary damages and damages for pain, suffering, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life, and other noneconomic damages.
— Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 19 July 2019 -
No previous election has featured an incumbent running amid an abrupt election-year economic collapse, stemming from noneconomic factors, along with a strong stock market.
— Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020 -
Dundon is seeking unspecified noneconomic, economic and punitive damages in the suit.
— oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2022 -
In another case, the same court overturned a statutory limit on noneconomic damages in malpractice cases—including claims for inconvenience and lost enjoyment of life.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2017 -
In 1976, the hardship requirement was scrapped in favor of what appeared to be a completely noneconomic standard, which was early entry in exchange for ineligibility to play college basketball.
— William C. Rhoden, New York Times, 29 June 2016 -
Because Mansfield met her fate just as the economics profession was advancing, like an occupying army, into noneconomic agencies of the federal government.
— Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022 -
But their economic arguments are specious, and their noneconomic arguments are dubious.
— Jonathan Nicastro, National Review, 1 Aug. 2023 -
Garcia Garfias is seeking unspecified noneconomic damages and coverage of his attorney fees.
— oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2022 -
This ideology subsumed and profaned notions about progress and morality held by the classical economists, until eventually the field even lacked words for noneconomic considerations, let alone ends.
— Mary L. Trump, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021 -
The discrepancy in their proposals stems largely from differing assessments of noneconomic damages.
— Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Nov. 2021
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