Sentence examples for scant raises from inspiring English sources

For most older workers -- be they carpenters and government employees here who have received scant raises in recent years or bank managers watching their companies merge -- the changes are more unsettling.

No tax hikes on the wealthy and a scant raise on corporations.

Cassavetes started his directing career with "Shadows," shot wildly on the streets of New York with a scant budget raised in large measure from listeners to Jean Shepherd's radio broadcast.

The influence of the hardline Bennett, whose political base is the rightwing national religious constituency, raises scant prospect of a return to peace negotiations with the Palestinians, even at a time when Israel is under mounting international pressure.

And Mr Surowiecki notes that the big employers like Walmart or McDonald's have skimpy profit margins which give them scant room to raise wages.

But the scant investment along Madison raises a key question not answered by a TIF reform task force created by Mayor Rahm Emanuel: Can the city's primary economic development tool help reverse decades of economic decline and physical decay in Chicago's poorest neighborhoods?

What should we do, especially in the midst of government downsizing and scant political will to raise revenues?

His eyes were bright and brown and he raised his scant eyebrows, settling into his lecture.

Details of where Manning intends to settle remain scant, but a GoFundMe raising money for her release notes she plans to return to Maryland, where her aunt and beloved cat, Belle, live.

Short-term interest rates are at a 40-year low, and there is scant prospect that the Federal Reserve will raise them.

Allan Melville died insane, leaving his wife to raise eight children on the scant funds wealthy relatives would spare.