Sentence examples for comparable levies from inspiring English sources

With other European countries on shaky ground, many questioned whether it was just a matter of time before other governments imposed comparable levies in a bid to repay bailouts from the European Union.

A tax on oil consumption comparable to that levied by most developed countries would be the simplest and perhaps most effective way of reducing the trade deficit.

Experts say that, once the gate fees charged at landfill sites are added on top, the cost per tonne of waste could approach £100 - a levy comparable to that charged in Germany a decade ago.

Couples pay "rip-off prices", according to fertility expert Robert Winston – as much as 10 times the fees levied in comparable countries such as Australia.

But is it really plausible for him to suggest that he and Levy are morally comparable?

There is a simple and effective way to conserve: begin immediately to tax gasoline at rates comparable to the high rates levied by European governments.

Putting a company name to a race is not comparable to nor a substitute for levy payments, because sponsorship is a commercial decision made for tangible benefits.

We used the Levy distance to make the experiments comparable with the experiments in [7].

Thus our inferred minimum tensile strength of the 5 μm chondritic porous IDPs of ~ 150 to 325 N/m2 is comparable to the strength inferred for some of the weak cometary meteors and the nucleus of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, and a factor of 3 to 6 higher than the ~50 N/m2 of the uncompacted, bare silicate studied by Blum et al. (2006).

"People often seem to forget that because we are approaching the limits to capacity," says Wynne Godley, senior economist at the Jerome Levy Institute at Bard College, "an increase in foreign demand would have to be matched by a comparable decrease in consumption by Americans".

Twitter alone levies discipline".