Sentence examples for gratuities for from inspiring English sources

And Crystal Cruises said it would stop charging extra for fine wines, premium spirits and gratuities for housekeeping, bar and dining staff beginning next month.

The Finance Ministry estimates that the average Frenchman pays 328 tips a year to members of 36 professions who depend on gratuities for a livelihood.

"Maintaining subsidies and gratuities for all once ensured greater equality, but today they only exacerbate inequality," a recent report for the Communist Party concluded.

Tipping aboard ship came to $10.50 a day for cabin and restaurant personnel and there were gratuities for local tour guides.

Police became involved in partisan political activity to ensure the election of particular candidates; they received "gratuities" for not enforcing unpopular vice laws; and they excluded strangers from social and political life.

There is Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, whose memories of his own parentless years on the streets "stealing food and cadging gratuities for errands" have left him with a "pulse of pity for orphans and strays".

Seven minutes later, the chair swiveled again -- a pivoting gallery of new faces, six women each hour, who pay $50 and a gratuity for Ms. Cosio's time.

"Though just last week when I checked out of a hotel in Lake Tahoe, I saw they had added a 1percentt gratuity for the housekeepers.

But the department and the hotel, the Capital Hilton, said the cost of the breakfast had included not only muffins but also fruit, coffee, juice, taxes and a gratuity for the servers.

The mammoth home run Manny Ramirez hit in the eighth inning yesterday was window dressing, a gratuity for his many friends and the vocal Red Sox fans who have overrun Yankee Stadium this weekend in surprising numbers.

You may be saddened to know that I felt I had no choice but to return this customer's five-dollar tip — a good two-thousand-per-cent gratuity for our shoddy performance, no doubt out of pity — to her big jerk son on Friday.