Sentence examples for my billable from inspiring English sources
Last spring, when Mr. Holder was traveling extensively to campaign for Mr. Obama, he joked to The American Lawyer magazine, "I hope the management committee is going to be real understanding when they see my billable hours this year".
I spend my billable hours raising our daughter, going to school, writing, and performing.
While working in the early 1990s in public relations for a Fortune 500 company (rhymes with "Be-Me"), the most creative thing I remember doing was conspiring ways to look busy in order to justify my billable hours, which were measured in 15-minute increments on my timesheet.
Some were wise tribal leaders who issued forth powerful incantations, all of which included the words "sue," "willful and reckless," "harmed my client" or "billable hours" that caused others to disgorge great sums of money in their direction.
I pretended that I might be able to fit him into my extremely busy schedule, never mind that the prospect of billable hours made my knees go gelatinous.
Sure, it took billable hours away from my day.
I get my kicks by reading The New York Times while remaining billable.
Even a "reduced billable hour" schedule (available but not yet truly accepted at my firm) seemed daunting.
I read a huge amount, both for fun and for work (in fact, one of the things I love about my work is that it gives me way to make reading a billable hour).
Yet if you spend a few hours preferably billable ones surfing through Internet personals or reading a day's worth of my e-mail at "Savage Love," my syndicated sex-advice column, youll find at least two condemnations of game-playing for every endorsement of long walks on the beach.
"Partners may be eased out or chucked out, but in my experience, it is much harder for older partners to maintain their position if their billable hours decline.
