Sentence examples for raise instead of from inspiring English sources

That's especially the case if you're blowing your raise instead of pocketing it.

What Fatca is expected to raise instead of money, tax specialists warn, are confusion and expense.

Councils will be allowed to keep business rates they raise, instead of sending all the money to Whitehall to be redistributed according to local need.

In other words, when we get a raise, instead of using that hard-won money to buy "the good life," we feel even more pressure to work since the shadow costs of not working are all the greater.

If health-insurance costs had risen 50percentt rather than 100percentt over the Bush years, middle-income voters would have enjoyed a pay raise instead of enduring wage stagnation.

And, the theory goes, if wages and health benefits are taxed at the same rate, employers might be more inclined to give their workers a raise instead of another health benefit.

Players are also allowed 10.5 percent annual raises, instead of increases of 8 percent, if they stay.

And the money raised, instead of going directly to park projects, will instead go into the city's general coffers.

Under the current system, a player who stays with his team can sign for six years (instead of five), with 10 percent raises (instead of 8 percent).

Under the new rules, a player who leaves via sign-and-trade can get only four years (instead of five) and 4.5 percent raises (instead of 7.5 percent).

Targeting the absolute amount of new capital that has to be raised instead of targeting the capital ratio could mitigate this problem, an approach which has been successfully applied in the U.S. SCAP stress test conducted in 2009.