Sentence examples for points schemes from inspiring English sources

Canada and Australia, which pioneered "points" schemes to select would-be immigrants with skills, have been tilting these to take an even higher proportion of such people, and the United States has rapidly increased the supply of temporary visas for skilled workers.Even governments that once strove to keep people out are encouraging the skilled to come in.

The results given by the four and five integration points schemes are in good agreement with the experimental results.

10.30am: Eric Pickles and Caroline Spelman launch a recycling rewards points scheme in Windsor.

RBS has announced that it is scrapping the Your Points scheme from 1 July this year.

The only points scheme that seems to pay off is Avios air miles.

These permits could be renewed under the government's new points scheme.

RBS scrapped its Your Points scheme in July, hitting a million NatWest and RBS customers while Capital One cut cashback on its card in June.

It's telling that Microsoft's meta-reward points scheme is dubbed "achievements" as if our virtual activity had some meaning beyond mere entertainment or distraction.

The Conservative party say the points scheme does not go far enough and have called for a cap on numbers entering Britain.

"The bank's credit cards will have an 'art miles' points scheme, with rewards including tickets to Glastonbury, albums and theatre tickets".

The news is also being announced to co-incide with the introduction of a new "Swap Points" scheme, which sees Love Home Swap broaden its model once again, encroaching even further on the legacy holiday accommodation 'time-share' model.