Sentence examples for major raise from inspiring English sources

The union also wants to eliminate "base-year compensation," an arcane rule that makes it difficult to trade players after they receive a major raise.

Prior to announcing the major raise a few weeks ago, Box was a $500 million acquisition target (in the last funding round, Box was valued at $600 million).

That's the largest funding round in the company's six-year history and its first major raise since November 2015 when it closed $500 million from investors.

Last spring, Mr. Lopez, a 23-year-old political science major, raised nearly $2,500 from private donors.

If BIGLAW DC does not react with major raises, I guarantee you that BIGLAW DC will face a brain drain.

The extended tussle with the Grand Slam events over prize money ended this year with a series of major raises for the players.

A social studies major raised in the New York suburbs, Hyman previously worked for Starwood Hotels and Resorts and WeddingChannel.com, and was at Harvard Business School when she had her eureka moment.

"I never meant this to be a public statement," said Smith, a 21-year-old sociology major raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

While Mr. Meyers, then a sports marketing major raised by a single-mother schoolteacher in Hobart, Ind., told jokes and discussed the Miami Dolphins with Ms. Miranda, a football fan, he worried that his chatter made him look foolish.

A major raising of public awareness in the subject would have followed the Congress of Paleoanthropology in Slovenia planned for 2001.

In terms of 2011, Bessemer Venture Partners' $1.6 billion fund, Sequoia Capital $1.3 billion fund, and J.P. Morgan Digital Growth fund (to the tune of $1.2 billion) all led the major raises for the year.