Sentence examples for retainer by from inspiring English sources

She was paid a $1.25 million retainer by HarperCollins.

He was paid "a small fee and a monthly retainer" by Lord Moyne's UK company, Guinness Management.

He was in limbo until he was suddenly offered a retainer by, guess who? - Sir Mark Prescott.

The indictment says that Tito's Crew was kept on "retainer" by a Colombian man "to commit murders in the United States on demand".

These freelancers, commonly called stringers, are local journalists who live in far-flung cities and are kept on retainer by news organizations.

Although briefly paid a retainer by Chris, he was soon made aware that he was expected to hustle for his livelihood, taking a trainer's percentage from the fighters with whom he worked.

Ruddick's campaign for party reform has been strengthened by evidence before Icac that two high-profile NSW Liberal powerbrokers – former NSW minister, former Liberal vice-president and lobbyist, Michael Photios, and the former party fundraiser Paul Nicolaou – were paid large retainers by AWH, in which Sinodinos was a director and chairman.

Reinstall the bearing race retainers by replacing the bolts in the housing.

Then they pay a monthly capitated rate, or retainer, set by the providers for their services.

"I've got a dressing room?" he asked Ian Osborne, a young retainer sent by the London production company in charge of the show.

In April , 1952 Erskine, who had moved to Random House, put him on retainer; but by August Lowry had become, as he wrote to Erskine, "half dead with discouragement".