Sentence examples for a provident from inspiring English sources

Many developing countries require certain employers to contribute to a provident scheme providing a lump-sum payment in the event of death or disability or on retirement.

Letter from a Provident Mutual gentleman of Memphis.

This is evident when she riffles through his papers looking for a provident fund document: in the file is a catalogue from a cosmetic sales company's pyramid scheme.

But the site proved to be a provident choice as the game was played in sweltering temperatures that had the Americans wilting.

Until the advent of the pension system in the late 1980s the RBI had a Provident Fund Scheme (PF) under which the employees and the bank contributed 10% each of the basic pay towards the corpus.

The government mandated that individuals save into a "provident fund" — 36 percent of the wages of young workers — to be used to pay for adequate health care, housing and retirement benefits.

ING, a Dutch bank that has racked up huge losses, reported a small quarterly profit, its first for a year.After a lengthy pursuit, Friends Provident, a British life insurance and pensions provider, agreed to a £1.9 billion ($3.1 billion) takeover from Clive Cowdery's Resolution.Toshiba said it would start manufacturing Blu-ray disc players.

In addition, the formally employed workforce make monthly contributions to an Employee Provident Fund (EPF), a compulsory savings scheme that provides a measure of security in retirement, and disburses supplementary benefits to members for medical expenses but also for capital purchases such as the family home.

Provident will pay 1.0875 shares and $11.125 in cash for each share of Southern Financial, or a total value of $44.50 a share, Provident said.

"When I worked for a publishing company, I paid into a Friends Provident New Generation personal pension plan which was part-subsidised by my employer," she says.

Since 2000, Hong Kong has mandated that all workers and employers contribute, up to a cap, 5% of wages to a personal provident fund account from which withdrawal is only allowed post-65.