Sentence examples for getting docked from inspiring English sources

The small print revealed that the first two incentives are only payable to those who have been claiming for an unbroken six-month period; my getting docked a day's benefits for signing on a day late had messed this up.

But these pacts are routinely ignored by the company, the unions say, and while workers bemoan the unremitting work schedule, their biggest gripe is getting docked for days when broken machinery or an oversupply of coal on the market leaves them idle.

"It's either the nanny or the cleaner, but one of them is getting docked a pound an hour.

"If junior players start getting docked points for excessive grunting, they won't care what their role models do," Walker said.

We got docked three points and fined pounds 50,000, and lost the appeal.

"Why didn't you at least call me?" "You get docked three points if you use a phone while driving".

An adventure thriller through the railroads every morning, so this man doesn't get docked for the whole hour.

About 40 percent of private sector workers do not have paid sick days, so wages get docked, or employees come in with the flu, or they lose their jobs.

Steelers safety Troy Polamalu got docked twice that amount for borrowing a team doctor's cellphone on the sidelines – to assure his wife he was OK after suffering an apparent head injury.

And in the example of a lineman allowing a sack, if the lineman is playing through but Eli holds onto the ball too long, the lineman will get a neutral (0) score and Eli will get docked (-1 or -2) for the sack.

Mr McDonnell gets docked a cheer because his proposal happens to be awful policy.At its centre is a proposal to eliminate Virginia's 17.5 cents/gallon tax on gasoline, and replace it with a 0.8 cent hike on state sales taxes that would be dedicated to funding transport (85% to the state's Highway Maintenance and Operations Fund and 15% to its Transportation Trust Fund).