Sentence examples for raises to close from inspiring English sources

In 2011, in the largest municipal recall election in the country, the mayor of Miami-Dade County, Carlos Alvarez, was removed from office after he gave large pay raises to close aides and then pushed for a significant increase in property taxes.

Today's investment brings the total raised to close to $200 million.

The debate is not over how much to raise them to close the looming deficit but how to cut them.

The Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, favor raising taxes to close the financing gap.

The city, merchants said, was really handing out tickets as a way to raise money to close the budget gap.

Some Democrats have said they need to raise close to $50 million to beat him.

That means, as George Stepanopoulos pointed out on This Week today, that the person who wants it will have to raise close to $100 million to hold it.

Two dozen well-wishers donated, and Sylvia was able to raise close to $2,000 for her trip to Washington.

Building on that message, the parents who did come formed Parents for Carpenter, a fund-raising organization that hopes to raise close to $240,000 this year.

LivingSocial is aiming to raise close to $200 million from new and old investors, according to two people briefed the matter.

The sale of DEPA had been expected to raise close to €1 billion.In fact the DEPAcle seems to have occurred partly for reasons beyond Greece's control.