Sentence examples for given a holiday from inspiring English sources

"This is the year the consumer has been given a holiday gift beyond belief," said Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst for NPD Group.

Residents will be given a holiday from Wednesday to Sunday, when large swaths of the city will be cordoned off and emptied except for people with special passes.

Under a new provision negotiated last year, the automakers' employees will be given a holiday on Election Day for the first time this year, and the U.A.W. has begun an elaborate effort to make sure that workers do go to the polls and vote Democratic on their day off.

It would have been a great show for Bangkok's citizens, but they were given a holiday and told that the best contribution they could make to a good summit meeting was to leave, and take their street-clogging cars with them.

In return, you get to write-off the donation from your taxes, and you're given a "holiday voucher" to sweeten the deal.

When the pier opened on 5 June 1867, again under Cecil Hugh Smyth Pigot, many of the people of Weston-super-Mare were given a holiday and a banquet was held in the Town Hall.

In the spot, by Peterson Milla Hooks, a young couple gives a holiday makeover to the apartment of an elderly neighbor while she is out.

It would take just a few minutes to give a holiday gift to millions of people who labor so hard in this state for so little money.

I'm no Viking, but glogg (pronounce the "o" like the "eu" in pneumonia) remains my go-to winter warmer, and I make a huge pot whenever I give a holiday party.

To thank his supporters, Mr. Suozzi is giving a holiday party at the Garden City Hotel, asking each guest for a token $50 donation, with the proceeds going to charity.

And partygoers who aren't busy pilfering flowers and doubling up on gift bags may be treating event workers poorly, or having loud cellphone conversations while the chief executive is giving a holiday toast.