Sentence examples for promising payment from inspiring English sources

He had to order an elderly servant named Joseph to wake him at dawn, promising payment if he succeeded in rousting him out of bed.

According to District Attorney Richard A. Brown and the police, Mr. Pratt summoned his victim, a retired Housing Authority worker, to his workplace at the Coliseum Mall in Howard Beach, Queens, on the night of May 8, promising payment on a $15,000 loan he had used to cover a gambling debt.

He deferred $100,000 in legal fees by promising payment when he got his first round of venture capital.

"Allegations were made against Mr. Robertson and Mr. Joseph Fregeau (an unsuccessful council candidate) during their campaign in April '84 that they were registering non-citizens to vote, that they were promising payment to induce voting, that they were intimidating and threatening voters and making false campaign statements," said Candace Beason, deputy district attorney, special investigations.

Frisco has signed deals with about eight companies this year, promising payments of as little as $25,000 and as much as $1.2 million in exchange for a signed lease within the city limits.

Dr. Ariely and two colleagues, Nina Mazar and On Amir, had 326 students take a multiple-choice general knowledge test, promising them payment for every correct answer.

What looked like a good settlement, promising prompt payment to black farmers, now looks like a failure, according to a new investigation by the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy group.

Weakened in his struggle against Antiochus VII, he called on the Śaka nomads to the north of his frontiers for aid, promising them payment.

This gave merchants greater leverage to negotiate lower processing fees, by promising more payment volume to one network, like Visa, in exchange for better terms.

Kwedit is one of the more promising alternate payment methods for social gaming and other virtual good sellers online.

But promising the payment was voluntary in the first place, so there's not much of a reason to leave a fake tip.