Sentence examples for given the sack from inspiring English sources
So how should you talk to somebody who has just been given the sack?
Peter Henley (@BBCPeterH) The Minister for Employment has been given the sack.
He was given the sack, without ado or farewell, and New York publishers are now madly bidding against one another for the rights to his future work.
Add to these the quarterly "waves" when headquarters decides to reduce headcount and a certain percentage of staff worldwide are given the sack, all on one day.
The 18-year-old who has settled for shoddy accommodation because he wants to leave home and it's cheap; the unskilled factory worker afraid to raise concerns in case they're given the sack.
And Curtis Davies could leave Aston Villa in January in a tiff over not quite having played enough games to be given the huge sack full of gemstones, parmesan cheese and £2 coins stipulated in his contract, but wanting it anyway despite having spent most of the last year in a Bath chair smoking a pipe.
But if he is still at the Treasury when Carney arrives next July – and a Macmillan-style prime minister would by now have given him the sack for his abject failure to "deliver" – Osborne may be in for a nasty shock.
It is embarrassing for Mr Goldsmith, who has campaigned on the importance for MPs to maintain high standards in public life and called for constituents to be given the power to sack their MPs if they are implicated in sleaze.
Only recently have Local Health Systems been given the power to sack staff [ 14].
When his boss, President Rafael Caldera, reached a loan agreement with the IMF over a year ago, Mr Petkoff was given the task of sacking many of the country's 1.3m public-sector workers.
