Sentence examples for by tacking on from inspiring English sources

However, Senate Republican leaders did stand up to Mr. Trump in one respect: They have agreed to amend a defense policy bill by tacking on a bipartisan measure to restore penalties on the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE.

Federal Express and others have responded by tacking on fuel surcharges to their rates.

The most obvious is that Octavia wants to banish the doom from her work by tacking on happier endings.

While put bonds are not new, investment bankers have added a wrinkle by tacking on additional put dates.

Even if he still pines for his sculpture, he violated the terms of the sale by tacking on a three-year storage obligation to which you never agreed.

In the end, the document's editors, bishops from France and Brazil, came up with a compromise to solve the standoff by tacking on extra words.

... It wasn't enough to get by". So he tacked on eight hours a day at a gas station and on top of that started a small office-cleaning business that kept him busy until midnight.

While those works were often described as memorials to the devastation wrought by the AIDS epidemic, such meanings seem largely tacked on by admirers.

It's flat and cycle lanes are not just an afterthought tacked on by politicians with an eye on the green vote.

The revelation in the story's final paragraph is simply tacked on by the narrator without any effort to justify it in terms of event or character.

Some land in the 90th minute of a 1-1 tie and secure a win all by themselves; others are tacked on at the same point in a match once a team is already up 3-1.