Sentence examples for dependants from inspiring English sources

The result has been a low "dependency ratio"—the proportion of dependants to people at work.

"It depends on the families' circumstances – how much the passenger earned, how many dependants there are," he said.

In 1984, at the height of the miners' strike, he was one of those involved in a protest at the deduction of £16 from benefits paid to the dependants of those on strike that led to the suspension of the parliamentary sitting.

A single income family with two dependants aged under 6 on $60,000 a year will receive $12,630 a year from the taxpayer.

So a single income household with two dependants under 6 will get $12,630 from the taxpayer...people will continue to receive generous social service support under this Government.

Abbott quotes figures for a dual income couple on a 70-30 income split with two dependants aged under 6 earning $60,000 who will receive $10,067 a year through the social security system in 2016.

We have to rise ourselves otherwise we'll always be the dependants.

Working-age populations rose at the same time as the ratio of dependants to workers fell.

As it does so, the age pyramid becomes like a Chinese lantern, the ideal shape for economic development, since it maximises the number of working-age people in relation to dependants, both young and old.In the developing world, this first occurred in East Asian countries like South Korea after fertility started to plunge in the 1960s.

Dependants of foreigners living in Beijing were beginning to leave the country.

Breadwinners are used to providing for several dependants.