Sentence examples for agreeing to raise from inspiring English sources

In a peculiarly American ritual, Congress often grandstands before agreeing to raise it.

The Senate Budget Committee approved the initiative yesterday after agreeing to raise vehicle registration fees by $7 instead of $8.

After agreeing to raise the retirement age to 60 by 2009, Italy put off the reform until 2017.

Mr. McConnell suggested that, like House Republicans, he would take a hard line on extracting deficit reduction concessions from Democrats before agreeing to raise the debt ceiling.

The country's leaders at last ended a ludicrously irresponsible bout of fiscal brinkmanship, removing the threat of global financial Armageddon by agreeing to raise the federal debt ceiling.

(Late Monday evening, the two sides crept closer to a deal, tentatively agreeing to raise taxes on incomes above $400,000).

An Australian firm agreed to raise $19 million.

We had children, agreed to raise them Jewish.

In exchange, the commission agreed to raise fares by 26percentt.

The I.M.F. agreed to raise about half that amount if Europe would raise the other half.

In that contract, the employer agreed to raise wages to $9.18 an hour by the end of 2015.