Sentence examples for cut the stipend from inspiring English sources

Gifford Miller, the speaker of the City Council, is planning to cut the stipend given for his post by about 25percentt, officials said yesterday, and wants to trim both the range and the dollar amount of other stipends paid for positions like committee chairman or majority whip.

"I'm not advocating Georgia's program, but it's a concept that really has proved to be successful". Enrollment in the program slowed drastically this year after the state labor department cut the stipend from $600 to $240 and restricted access to only those workers receiving unemployment benefits (it had been opened to nonrecipients in 2010).

When a new commander arrived and cut the daily food stipend and sent the soldiers on more missions to Wardak province, which is far more dangerous than Kabul, Enayatullah grew disgruntled.

Then in the summer of 2010, Yéle cut off the stipend entirely, for a while sending the orphanage a weekly basket of vegetables and rice instead.

Proponents have made an easy calculation from government statistics to show that a generous stipend of $3,000 a month for each adult in the country would cut the nation's poverty rate in half.

The budget would cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ― the official program name for food stamps ― by about 25percentt, replacing a portion of beneficiaries' monthly stipend with canned goods and other healthy food chosen by the government.

Tailor the stipend to employees' wants and needs.

Lawmakers ultimately rejected his claim that no citizen of their country had been so exploited, voting to cut his stipend by 93 to 23 votes.

In 2015, the Obama administration persuaded Congress to cut troop stipends for those units.

"With his consent, Berezovsky had cut back his stipend and he was preparing to go it alone," Goldfarb says.

Mr. Miller cut his own stipend to $29,500 from $39,500, for an overall reduction in leadership special expenses of about five percent.