Sentence examples for given a lump from inspiring English sources

When I say learns, I mean she dons the hairnet, is given a lump of pre-prepared dough and sticks some sweetcorn on it.

While one woman who was given a lump of clay made a candlestick to symbolise a brighter future, another had made a terraced house which she had then taken a big knife to and cut down the middle.

The payments are on top of the existing compensation system, under which communities are to be given a lump sum of £100,000 when a test well is fracked, plus 1% of revenues.

That would violate Mr. Romney's vow that neither current beneficiaries nor Americans within 10 years of eligibility would be affected by his proposal to shift Medicare to a voucherlike system in which recipients are given a lump sum to buy coverage from competing insurers.

If an executive is placed in the middle of a reactor, given a lump of solid hydrogen to hold, then told it is the last thing of value owned by an impoverished pensioner, it should trigger a grasping reflex so powerful that the hydrogen atoms are forced together and a fusion reaction initiated.

Now, employees are often given a lump some to cover the costs of their move.

I went out to Oregon just about a year ago, when the state had divided its Medicaid program up into 15 regions, each of which was given a lump-sum amount to pay for their enrollees' health care.

Maternal financial empowerment within the household was measured at baseline by asking the women whether they were given a lump-sum amount of money for day-to-day household expenses, and whether they could take independent decisions about its use.

We asked each mother if she was given a lump-sum amount of money for day-to-day household expenses, and whether she could take independent decisions about its use.

"He could give a lump sum to a public charity -- say, $200,000 of the securities," Mr. Halperin said.

It also gave a lump sump on retirement, after the age of 65, of two and a quarter times the annual rate.