Sentence examples for earning upward from inspiring English sources

Bannon's proposal to create a higher tax bracket for citizens earning upward of five million dollars was dropped.

When Davis first deployed with the C.I.A. to Pakistan in 2008, he worked from the agency's base in Peshawar, earning upward of $200,000 a year.

He sells for a few hours after work and all day on weekends, paying $6.50 for a 24-pack of water bottles and earning upward of $300 on a good day.

British soldiers carried dart boards with them in World War II, helping spread the game to 45 countries, but England remained the mecca, with professional players there today earning upward of $300,000 a year.

To return: While holding this position, in which she was consistently earning upward of $90,000 per year, plus respectable benefits, the mother made a down payment of $65,000 toward the purchase of a modest one-bedroom apartment in a condominium building in good standing on the far but not too far east side of Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Short, his former chief of staff, had become a top operative for the Kochs, earning upward of a million dollars a year as president of the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the brothers' Virginia-based membership group for big conservative donors.

(In a good year a crab fisherman can earn upward of $75,000 and the captains well into six figures).

Schumacher, a 32-year-old German who dominates Grand Prix racing, is said to earn upward of $100 million a year.

Future Wal-Mart inroads could threaten the comfortable middle-class existence of city members of the food workers' union, who can earn upward of $20 an hour.

If they did their jobs successfully, why should they be punished as opposed to, say, entertainers or athletes, some of whom earn upward of $50 million each year?

In New York, for example, where labor represents 95percentt of the city's maids, they can earn upward of $15 an hour, with benefits.