Sentence examples for licences to which from inspiring English sources

That changed in 1994, when a reformist government started handing out new licences (to which local bankers, naturally, objected vocally).

Means-testing the payment of the allowance, and the free television licences to which all pensioners are currently entitled, would save £1.4 billion, reckons the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

One letter-writer in the Australian described the Australia Card as "the greatest danger to our freedom... since the Japanese bombed Darwin" while Geoffrey Blainey reminded his readers that the licences to which the Eureka rebels had objected were the identity cards of their time.

Others could be bought outright (along with their licences to fish), which costs more.

The total value of controlled export licences to Israel – which can be for commercial or military use – was around £8bn last year.

They have a licence to marry, which grants conjugal visiting rights.

Then it gave a GSM licence to Vimpelcom, which had been using a more old-fashioned system.

For the last ten years it has held the licence to Kovykta, which has gas reserves estimated at 1.9trn cubic metres.

"They get to purchase a social licence to operate, which is incredibly important for a company like BP," said Danny Chivers of the protest group BP or not BP.

"Banks have to have a licence to operate, which is granted by a common understanding of what is right and fair," says Hans Dalborg, the chairman of Nordea.Some elements of this new contract between banks and society are already clear.

German apprenticeships are widely admired, but in more than 300 areas they lead to a licence to practise, which means an apprentice is on a route to a guaranteed job.