Sentence examples for at steep rates from inspiring English sources

American law firms typically get fresh law graduates to do such grunt work and then bill clients for it at steep rates.

But to do so they have paid negligible interest to depositors and lent money at steep rates -- an arrangement that has generated a lot of profits now but could erode with the first stirrings of competition.

That may be true, but one of the reasons Goldman Sachs and General Electric took Berkshire's money at steep rates during the financial crisis wasn't just that Mr. Buffett was the only game in town.

Having exported its way to growth for 30 years, China cannot keep growing at steep rates unless it develops domestic markets by turning its hard-working, money-saving citizens into capitalists.

Fearful of imposing austerity ahead of a general election due later this year, it has instead borrowed at steep rates from local banks, beseeched friendly governments (mostly in the Gulf) for cash and fuel, and busied itself trying to push through legislation to allow for issuing "Islamic" bonds.This has not stemmed the slide.

If the options are the other kind, the first $70 is taxed at steep rates as salary income when you exercise the options, and only the final $80 is a capital gain.

The union is open to the concept, but not at the steep rates proposed by the league.

This is because universal credit is withdrawn at a steep rate as people earn more.

But the freight and Eurostar trains traveling the Chunnel accelerate at a steep rate, going in seconds from 25 m.p.h. to their top tunnel speeds.

Delta Air Lines, which is struggling to avoid a bankruptcy filing, said yesterday that it expected to lose as much as $675 million for the third quarter and that it was using cash at a steep rate.

Delta Air Lines, which is struggling to avoid a bankruptcy filing, said today that it expected to lose as much as $675 million for the third quarter, and that it was burning cash at a steep rate.