Sentence examples for raise every year from inspiring English sources

I ask for a raise every year.

My raise every year is like a cost-of-living raise.

And the troops have received a pay raise every year for decades.

She guarantees a 50-cent raise every year, and now employs six refugee women.

He got an architecture degree, a top-paying job with a pay raise every year and a bonus at Christmas.

Getting a $500,000 raise every year apparently was a hard habit to kick for the casino impresario Stephen A. Wynn.

"This issue has been raised every year," he said.

Schools that do not meet their proficiency goals, which are raised every year, are labeled as failing.

The day before, in a nearby valley, they had gathered in their hundreds round the sacred pole which is raised every year in the Buddhist holy month.

Mr. Bloomberg, who is renowned for sparing little expense on employees at his company (they traditionally received 15percentt raises every year), offered campaign workers free health insurance.

According to its 2004 annual report, the colony's endowment stands at $22 million, but more than $1 million must be raised every year to cover expenses, said David Macy, the colony's resident director.