Sentence examples for raise under from inspiring English sources

At the same time, unionized county employees whose wages had been frozen were due for a raise under a prior agreement and to have some of their benefits reinstated.

He said the 500,000 Walmart workers identified in today's announcement paled in comparison to the roughly 27 million workers that would have gotten a raise under last year's proposed bill to increase the Federal minimum wage to $10.10.

Even after the £170m share placing – the most that Serco could raise under stock market convention without a full-blown rights issue – some analysts questioned whether it would be enough.

Millions could get a raise under Obama administration's new overtime rules Lawmakers have passed legislation that gives families the right to sue the Saudi government for any role it may have played in the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.

In his 17-page decision, Justice Lehner, who himself would get a pay raise under the ruling, said he believed that legislators did unfairly link their desire for a pay raise with that of the judges.

Though those participants would not get a match of $4 for each $1 they raise under the campaign finance terms, they would get the equivalent of a good government sticker for abiding by other campaign finance rules.

The raises under consideration are not a giveaway.

More than one successful, happy adult was raised under tight financial circumstances.

As someone raised under the Sign of the Ironic, all of this came as a surprise.

Whatever we may think about Socialist Realism, some good artists were raised under its banner.

Mr. Schwarzenegger has said that he was raised "under great discipline".