Sentence examples for off his wages from inspiring English sources

After graduation from the Art Institute, Jarrell lived off his wages from mixing paint and furthered his skills in his studio for a year.

This new agency provided David with a tourist visa rather than a work visa, and skimmed off a portion of his wages throughout his time teaching at Shanghai schools.

£160,000 - The figure he will have to spend once tax and national insurance contributions have been taken off his £300,000-a-week wage.

He stopped short of topping off as he complained that his wages were not rising as fast as the price of gas.

The credit-card company docked his wages to pay off the first, and she is still battling over the second.

Mesrine was not a revolutionary, an ideologue, or a lunatic; he was a robber and an occasional kidnapper, who lived off the wages of his sins.

He is now living off his wife's wages as a librarian and contributions from his parents.

Mr. Petukhov also has paid off back wages.

"We've never tried to live off low wages and poor benefits," Mr. Kelly said.

And since 60 percent of an average hospital's costs are labor, employees will be laid off and wages cut.

This tiered structure, in which fees are siphoned off and wages dwindle each step down the ladder, follows the familiar pattern of Japan's nuclear and construction industries.