Sentence examples for by derisory from inspiring English sources

Roma fixes the court, and the family face eviction, eased by derisory compensation.

The abolition of the education maintenance allowance, to be replaced by a derisory alternative, has been met by students in further education with anger, frustration and anxiety.

The recent announcement that the national minimum wage will rise by a derisory 19 pence an hour is an example of the continuing downward pressure on incomes, when the RPI rate of inflation is still running at 2.8percentnt.

"[This will decide] whether, 60 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the respect due to the dead, the right to live without one's ancestors being debased and without their work being sullied before the eyes of the entire world by a derisory and pornographic exercise... still constitute a basic freedom in France," he said in a statement.

But it has since been slammed by Labour as "derisory".

But the increase is considered derisory by the more militant and vocal of Haiti's 17 textile sector unions.

The deal was criticised as "derisory" by Labour, whose shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the deal should be investigated by the Government's public spending watchdog.

Mr Osborne came under fire at the weekend when he claimed that the Google deal, which was ridiculed as "derisory" by Labour, has been a "major success".

For one thing German welfare benefits, which can amount to more than two-thirds of a jobless person's last net wage, are more generous than those of the French (though they are by no means derisory there either).

Kraft Foods went hostile in its pursuit of Cadbury today when it launched a formal takeover offer worth £9.8bn that was swiftly rejected as "derisory" by the British company's board.

A policy that promised a large sum when it was taken out in 1924 could well have seemed derisory by 1945--which 1945--which 1945--which why so few claimaywere made after the war.That is not important to claimants like Mrs Guggenheim.