Sentence examples for holidays granted from inspiring English sources

Because of tax holidays granted to its new plants, the firm's effective tax rate will drop from 25% in 2011 to 16-18% this year.

The government said the downturn was an aberration, blaming the large number of public holidays granted during the World Cup soccer tournament to take pressure off the country's creaking infrastructure.

A handful of big-box retailers have eliminated their free shipping minimums for Black Friday and throughout the holidays, granting their Internet customers free shipping on everything, regardless of price.

"Thanksgiving day is no longer a solemn festival to God for mercies given … it is a holiday granted by the state and nation to see a game of football".

It is a holiday granted by the State and the Nation to see a game of football".

As it was in the 1890s, so it is in the 21st century, The NFL Century, that Thanksgiving remains "a holiday granted by the State and the Nation to see a game of football".

In 1893 the New York Herald noted the significance of the event, declaring: "Thanksgiving Day is no longer a solemn festival to God for mercies given...It is a holiday granted by the State and the Nation to see a game of football".

"I think I've taken the holiday for granted for a long time," Mr. Gilmour said, "and I feel a much higher feeling of patriotism this year".

Thursday's decision – issued late in the day before the Fourth of July holiday weekend – granted Wheaton a temporary injunction and said the school only needs to notify the government in writing that it is a nonprofit with religious objections to the contraceptive mandate.

If you have left a job where public holidays were always granted on top of annual leave, you may be surprised - as my husband was - to discover your new employer makes no such provision.

As a reward for his hard work on the holidays, Scrooge - begrudgingly - granted him the day off for Christmas.