Sentence examples for chief inducement from inspiring English sources

The drug benefit would be the chief inducement for seniors to make the switch to private plans.

it was recognized that the chief inducement to the passage of the Amendment was the desire to extend federal protection to the recently emancipated race from unfriendly and discriminating legislation by the States.

7 Examples of such collapsing are common in the literature, even in studies with rather large sample sizes where data sparsity was not likely the chief inducement for doing so.

These compelling considerations led Congress to offer the Union Pacific Company what Mr. Chief Justice Waite called 'extraordinary inducements.' In re Sinking Fund Cases, 99 U.S. 700, 723, 25 L.Ed. 496, 504.

"The upswing in April existing-home sales was expected because of the tax credit inducement," said Lawrence Yun, the association's chief economist.

William H. Rehnquist, who was then chief justice, wrote that, "in some circumstances, the financial inducement offered by Congress might be so coercive as to pass the point at which pressure turns into compulsion".

Marketing company CMGI made an inducement restricted stock award to President and Chief Executive Joseph C. Lawler covering 1.8 million common shares with the purchase price deemed to have been paid in kind through Lawler's employment agreement.

"Why would a company that already bought the property, started construction and now has millions in stud fees need an inducement to come to Elmont?" asked Harvey B. Levinson, Nassau County's chief assessor.

Mr. Hodgson calls such inducements "golden hellos". Some companies are still offering "golden goodbyes" to retiring chief executives, even after a storm of criticism led John F. Welch Jr. to relinquish some post-retirement perks that General Electric had given him.

Schering-Plough says that the activities under investigation occurred before its new chief executive, Fred Hassan, arrived in April 2003, and that it has overhauled its marketing to eliminate inducements.

A German TV documentary aired in the days before the vote compiled a number of claims against Bach, including allegations that as part of Adidas chief Horst Dassler's "inner circle" he helped place favoured candidates in sporting federations and paid inducements to sports stars.