Sentence examples for a remittance on from inspiring English sources

The medieval practice of selling papal indulgences, a remittance on punishment for sins, was one of the activities that drove Martin Luther to start the Reformation.

Pope Boniface lured pilgrims accustomed to traveling to shrines like Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where the pilgrims of the Canterbury Tales were headed, to Rome by offering an indulgence, a remittance on punishment for sins.

You sent us a remittance on Aug. 9th for your Aug. selection, but the charge for your Oct. book was open at the time we mailed your Dec. book & therefore you were billed for both of the books at that time.

Abra, a remittance service built on top of the Blockchain, has closed $12 million in Series A funding.

For over 200 years foreigners who live in Britain but are not considered by the authorities to be "ordinarily domiciled" there — "non- doms" in international tax trade jargon — have been taxed on a "remittance basis".

This project states that drawing upon theoretical approaches to economic sociology enable us to encompass disparate but compatible findings on social remittances on the one hand, and on economic remittances on the other.

Instead, the lack of an effect of remittances on migrant households appears to be determined by the additional utility from consumption counteracting that of education.

In this way, we add to the work on Ecuador of Calero et al. (2009) and Göbel (2013), who use a sample of households collected in 2005 2006 to find a positive effect of remittances on education in Ecuador.

Meanwhile, Edwards and Ureta (2003) find a significant impact of remittances on school retention in El Salvador.

In Mexico, Valero-Gil (2009) finds a significant effect of remittances on household health expenditures.

Ang et al. (2009) also do not find a significant effect of remittances on productive investments in the Philippines.