Sentence examples for perk from inspiring English sources

Sites such as couchsurfing.com, airbnb.com and iStopover.com are already connecting thousands of solo travellers with spare rooms across the world, with the added perk of a friendly host thrown in.

I was often working six or seven days a week and wanted a healthy drink - like the ones my mother made - to perk me up.

Mayer, after becoming CEO of Yahoo, hit the headlines for banning employees from working at home – a big perk for working mothers.

Meanwhile companies were as yet only scratching the surface on flexible working, still seen as an "employee perk" rather than a means of getting the best out of workers of both sexes.

A jolt of liberalisation could perk things up.By the end of the year trade officials may deliver just that, or a taste of it at any rate.

But they could not get rid of him before he extracted one last perk from the club or rather, some 2.15 billion of them, from a new ownership group of his own choosing (though all three final bidders had to be pre-approved by MLB).

A big rate cut, he said, is more likely to drain confidence than perk it up, if "it is interpreted as a signal that the central bank has a more pessimistic assessment of the economy than market participants".

And once-wretched Albania has begun to bounce back from rock bottom, leaving ex-Soviet Moldova at the foot of the poverty league.Indeed, the economies of post-communist Central Europe, after sinking into degradation in the first five years or so after communism collapsed, are beginning to perk up; and their political systems are looking quite solid too.

The good news is that smarter thinking is combining with cheap and powerful IT to push the delivery of corporate personal-security services well beyond those traditional beneficiaries in the executive suite.In the past, firms tended to view personal-security services as a perk for high-ranking executives, says Timothy Horner of Kroll, a risk consultancy and security company.

Having briefly closed the poll gap on their Labour rivals over the summer, the Tories are once again trailing, by around eight points.If the recovery continues, this may pass: the labour market must eventually tighten, wages rise and Britons perk up.

And that, the government hopes, will provide a boost to what has recently been a persistently sluggish economy.It is the third time in seven months that China's government has tried to perk up the economy by shutting much of it down.