Sentence examples for campaigning for higher from inspiring English sources

McDonald's workers have spent more than a year campaigning for higher wages as part of the Fight for $15 campaign.

Household incomes will be squeezed hard and yet David Cameron and George Osborne have been campaigning for higher interest rates, which can only benefit the banks.

"Instead of campaigning for higher taxes, the president should lead an effort to begin addressing our nation's spending problem," Rodgers said.

And in any case, King — who was campaigning for higher wages when he was assassinated — would surely have considered soaring inequality an evil to be opposed.

It is unclear whether Mr. Weiner is serious about running now, or merely demonstrating his tendency to mull, but not pull the trigger on campaigning for higher office.

Plenty of ambitious City Council members who have been campaigning for higher office are reconsidering their plans and may run again for their old Council seats, thanks to a term-limit extension proposed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

He exaggerates: 1983 was the election in which Michael Foot threw the Labour Party into a suicidal battle against Margaret Thatcher's Tories by campaigning for high taxes, stronger state intervention in the economy, withdrawal from the Common Market and unilateral nuclear disarmament.

There were also grumbles that she didn't campaign for higher pay for maths teachers.

It's a prime location for the beginning of a campaign for higher office.

Oliver Patton, Alexandria, Va.: I have followed your campaign for higher fuel taxes with great interest.

It ruined your campaign for higher literacy standards the following day.