Sentence examples for raises only to from inspiring English sources

In late January, before the pay increases became widespread, one exchange upbraided a New York firm that planned to give raises only to its Bay Area offices.

"Unlike the House Republican proposal," the White House said in a news release outlining the tax, "the president's proposal ensures that companies that offer raises only to already well-paid executives would be ineligible for the tax relief".

Soon afterward, in November, 2012, the Newark Teachers Union agreed to a new contract that, for the first time, awarded raises only to teachers rated effective or better under the district's rigorous new evaluation system.

Confident that East would bid spades, Bertheau raised only to four hearts.

More heterodox ideas on domestic policy have been raised only to be repudiated (or else denounced as treason).

This was followed by Bosnia, where expectations of "safe havens" were raised only to crash in tragedy.

"So often hopes for peace have been raised, only to be dashed by new waves of violence".

Nevertheless, statues shouldn't be raised only to saints and Lloyd George, for all his considerable defects, was no Lucifer.

Many observers believed that this technical point was raised only to give the justices an excuse to dismiss the case as improvidently accepted and thus avoid a ruling.

IS THIS the start of genuine reform, or a bad-dream repeat of 1998-99, whopesopes were also raised only to be dashed?

One hears "veal" and, more often than not, thinks of dumb, frightened cattle penned in and raised only to be destroyed.