Sentence examples for paying first from inspiring English sources

"They didn't like paying first, because then they felt they were risking something".

But this holiday season plenty of American shoppers have gone the other way — paying first and buying later.

"He's really targeting the small-business owner, the entrepreneur who's paying first class or nondiscount and getting the bum's rush from the other guys.

It's crazy.' Then he said he flies back and forth a lot to see his family, and the reason he can do that is because the coach seats are reasonably priced, because some people are paying first class.

Under its previous chief executive, Robert Ayling, British Airways developed a radical strategy of cutting overall market share in an attempt to increase profits by catering more to passengers paying first- and business-class fares.

Nets officials were skeptical about the legality of paying first and not receiving the player for at least another year, but this week, Joel Litvin, the N.B.A.'s general counsel, confirmed that paying the $350,000 up front would be legal.

"Unemployment is over 9 percent, and to be paying first-year associates $500 an hour angers the public," he observes.

Federal election rules allow candidates to reimburse corporate jet owners for travel by paying first-class commercial rates and in some instances coach rates for each passenger, making corporate and private jets less expensive in most cases than charters.

An article in The New York Law Journal last week reported that some major New York City law firms were paying first-year lawyers as much as $145,000 a year, counting year-end bonuses as well as salary.

His education agenda includes a plan to make college affordable for more Americans by paying first-year tuition for students who work part time.

One of Shell's Arctic drilling rigs, the Kulluk, being towed across the stormy Gulf of Alaska in late December (to avoid paying first-of-the-year taxes), broke its tow and grounded off of Kodiak Island.