Sentence examples for first wages from inspiring English sources

He's the ape who first wages war on the humans.

I earned my first wages working underground helping to gut this old earth.

He made the senior side at 15, and with his first wages he bought another pair of trousers, to supplement the turquoise cords with the big turn-ups.

When he got into the first team, in 1999, and earned his first wages he helped his family pay off overdue household bills.

It is payday at long last in Afghanistan, and after months of penury the lucky few are taking home their first wages since last July dreaming of simple things.

First, wages have stagnated over the last several decades -- a slow but steady drag on paychecks, heightened by wide layoffs of the recession.

In 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act into law, establishing the United States' first wage floor.

That's where I earned my first wage as a summer hire.

It has ritually attacked the army since military operations were first waged against it a decade ago.

Twitter slogans talk of the three world wars: the first waged with guns, the second with tanks and this third world war waged by banks.

First, wage stagnation despite rising productivity: Second, a dramatic rise in household debt, which many of us now believe lies at the heart of our continuing depression.