Sentence examples for pay narrowly from inspiring English sources

The House cleared the way today for the Bush administration to impose new rules on overtime pay, narrowly rejecting Democratic arguments that the plan will cost millions of workers the opportunity to earn extra money.

In some cases, Medicare home health and hospice benefits pay for narrowly defined, time-limited aide services.

Public assistance grants helped him pay the rent and narrowly avoid eviction.

But some lawyers don't think it will cause the default swaps to pay out, since subordination is narrowly defined in the swaps' contracts.

And a proposal to pay for state parks, which narrowly avoid sweeping closings this year, would reintroduce a plan for oil drilling off Santa Barbara.

Because of his preference for merit over favouritism in the appointments process and his rejection of certain popular policy proposals (e.g., equal pay for women), he only narrowly won reelection in 1908.

A recruitment company where Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi is on the board has endured one of the biggest shareholder rebellions over pay so far this year and narrowly escaped having its pay deals voted down.

Another vote, which was designed to ensure that bosses could earn no more than 12 times the salary of the lowest paid in their company, was narrowly defeated last November.

But Easton's voters narrowly turned down paying $2 million for its share, so the rest of the money, almost $5 million, had to be raised by the Nature Conservancy and the Aspetuck Land Trust.

One broad basis for judging subsidies whether they would be paid in a free market is too narrowly applied, he argues.

There has been much debate about whether Dimon deserved his big increase in a year that the bank paid so much in fines, and narrowly avoided criminal prosecution.