Sentence examples for paying constitutes from inspiring English sources

"To ascertain whether the rent you are paying constitutes an overcharge, you must first review the rental history for your apartment," Mr. Sokolski said.

Three UN experts criticized the department's aggressive practice Wednesday, saying in a press release that stopping access to water for those who can't afford to pay "constitutes a violation of the human right to water and other international human rights".

As the SEC argued to Rakoff, the $5.8 billion in bonuses that Bank of America authorized Merrill to pay constituted nearly 12% of the $50 billion that Bank of America had agreed to pay to acquire Merrill and amounted to nearly 30% of Merrill's total stockholder equity.

This examination, which focuses mainly on whether some companies failed to pay taxes, constitutes a separate track the government could use to put pressure on them.

Failure to pay "shall constitute an event of default under the operating agreement," the company stated.

But many news sites have concluded that getting even 5 to 10 percent of their readers to pay would constitute success, and many — including The New York Times — have made plans to start some kind of pay system.

(WNYC pays $3 million a year to NPR, which is less than 10percentt of its budget, but at WFCR in Amherst, Mass., the $500,000 it pays to NPR constitutes nearly 20percentt of its budget).

Based on an unusual clause in Chinese law, men have been able to argue that sex with minors — meaning those under 14 — is not rape if the girl is paid, but instead constitutes the crime of "spending the night with a young girl in a brothel," which carries a different penalty, possibly resulting in five years in jail and a fine.

This, however, as we have established, does not automatically absolve them of the duty to participate, nor does it necessarily completely constitute paying what one ought.

The truth is that remuneration committees are engaged in a pay arms race in which everyone is trying to ensure that their executive team is in the top quartile of pay – and what constitutes top-quartile pay is not some objective incentive, but a socially determined norm that is always on an upward ratchet.

That said, from a hospital perspective both charity care and self-pay patients constitute populations for whom hospitals are less likely to receive adequate reimbursement for services that are provided and thus combining these groups for analytic purposes seems justified [ 46, 47].