Sentence examples for instead of commissions from inspiring English sources

Members of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisers (www.napfa.org), for example, must have at least three years of financial planning experience and must charge fees instead of commissions.

Mr. Scott said commissions at the Dean Witter brokerage unit hit new highs, despite the firm's efforts to switch more of its individual customers to paying annual fees instead of commissions on their transactions.

The ruling is important, employment rights lawyers said, in its affirming that commission-based employees who return to their jobs after service must be compensated on the basis of what they were earning when they left, even if that requires the employer initially to pay a salary instead of commissions.

A single annual fee, based on the account's total assets, is charged instead of commissions and service charges being levied separately for each transaction.

Perhaps instead of commissioning, he might hire Ms. Tharp to run a choreography boot camp.

Instead of commissioning expensive dramas, she now plans to experiment with low-budget formats such as documentaries and video-style diaries.

Monique Buzzarté, a trombonist, is also a composer, but instead of commissioning herself she solicited "The River of Memory" from Alice Shields.

Instead of commissioning telephone pollsters or gleaning insights from social media, Mr. Bale used a mobile platform called Jana, which rewards users with free airtime if they take a survey.

Instead of commissioning Kanye West to contribute a verse or a beat, Ocean asked him to write a poem, and had him pose for photographs in a black Lamborghini at a drive-through.

Instead of commissioning professional scribes to copy manuscripts, some scholars began to make copies for themselves, and, in place of the smooth, mechanical styles of the professionals, they used the sort of writing that they presumably already used for personal notes.

Ms. Matthews said that instead of commissioning a single poll or focus group among women, she was seeking "longer-term engagement" with a group of women, creating a relationship with them over a period of time to better assess what shapes their political views.