Sentence examples for hour to pay from inspiring English sources

He washed dishes, making fifty cents an hour to pay his way through college, and to start a small business in the oil and gas industry.

Among the infractions found were failures to pay the state's minimum wage, $7.15 an hour, to pay time and a half for overtime and to keep proper records.

"I'll bet if Saddam Hussein's body were put on display in Baghdad, Iraqis wouldn't line up for an hour to pay their respects".

Yet another day, the enemy was the people in City Hall who "discriminated against" the church by asking the "Gospel Hour" to pay real-estate taxes: "Somebody down there doesn't like the message we preach".

He washed dishes making 50 cents an hour to pay his way through the University of Texas, and to start a small business in the oil and gas industry.

Consumer groups doubt the companies are as close to bankruptcy as they claim, but PG&E Chief Executive Gordon Smith Gordon Smith said today that the San Francisco company has "virtually exhausted its financial resources, borrowing an average of $1 million per hour to pay for the power we deliver to Californians".

In the United States, nuclear-generated electricity was assessed a fee of $0.001 per kilowatt-hour to pay for a permanent repository of high-level nuclear waste.

And owing to inflation, Egyptians are forced to work longer hours to pay their bills.

Often I had to work extra hours to pay back the lost money.

Each day, we work almost two hours to pay our taxes.

In ancient Babylon, it took more than 50 hours to pay for that light from a sesame-oil lamp.