Sentence examples for allowance raise from inspiring English sources

Mr. Klein, who grew up in public housing, could recall nothing more in the way of carrots and sticks than an allowance raise or a grounding for one of his bad report cards.

In this context, how can it make sense to abolish grants and maintenance allowance, raise fees exorbitantly, and treat students as young consumers seeking to maximise their "human capital"?

Personal allowance raised to £11,000 from next year.

It's also how you get your allowance raised.

Maryland has also said it intends to retire some unsold allowances, raising the percentage of the unsold permits retired to 93 percent.

Agencies sending volunteers for longer periods typically pay fees or allowances, raising the total annual cost to typically between US$360000 and US$500000 (range US$26000000 60 000).

If Osborne can scrape up the cash from somewhere he would like to push up the tax free personal allowance and raise the threshold at which people start to pay income tax at 40%.

A plan by the prime minister to reduce the welfare cap from £26,000 to £23,000 and the removal of housing benefit from 18- to 21-year-olds on jobseeker's allowance will raise £255m a year, which will be used to fund the apprenticeships.

Billy's weekly allowance was raised to 35 cent and he became a celebrity.

At the train, saying goodbye to her mother, she asked that her allowance be raised to thirty shillings.

Measures such as replacing the Educational Maintenance Allowance and raising tuition fees have led to many being priced out of continuing in education or training post-16.