Sentence examples for increase on top of from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush has said he would add $1 billion for an annual salary increase on top of the increases authorized in recent years.

A majority of the 660-member union approved the company's proposal of a 2.57percentt wage increase on top of inflation, union leaders said.

A union director, Carlos Valenzuela, said the union agreed to a three-year contract that includes a 4percentt wage increase, on top of adjustments for inflation.

PAGE C1 Homeowners Taxed Again Owners of one- to three-family homes in New York City are facing another property tax increase on top of a recent 18.5percentt rise as a result of an adjustment required by state law.

Now, the bondholders are going to court, and last week, the utility officers began considering a 25percentt rate increase, on top of what is already some of the most expensive electricity in the West, in an effort to stave off financial disaster.

For all hybrid hydrogels studied in this work, the dynamic storage modulus G′ exhibited a sharp increase on top of a plateau that was forming in the heating ramp at a temperature corresponding to the LCST transition of hairy NPs.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, by far the nation's largest foundation with $23.3 billion in assets, spent roughly $1.2 billion in 2001, a 21percentt increase in giving on top of an 81percentt increase the previous year.

The cost of other ingredients, like eggs and milk, has also increased, on top of increases in the price of gasoline that inevitably get passed on to consumers.

Several experts said they expected that Mr. Giuliani would eventually make a fallback proposal that included a modest wage increase for all employees and individual merit increases on top of that.

They knew the risk they were taking and did it anyway.Retirees who did nothing wrong were promised a pension in the Michigan constitution and voted 'yes' to the grand bargain are treated like criminals and are saddled with significant health-care cost increases on top of substantial pension cuts.

"That said it has been even increased on top of that this year, especially in the past two months.