Sentence examples for setting aside a portion from inspiring English sources

Saving, process of setting aside a portion of current income for future use, or the flow of resources accumulated in this way over a given period of time.

It has met resistance because Social Security has, at its heart, a strong conservative ethos: setting aside a portion of wages for retirement, spreading risk among the whole population and guaranteeing benefits.

Setting aside a portion of the £3.6 billion pool to fund regional news on ITV may seem like a small change, but the BBC knows that future governments could also offer incentives for children's or arts programming to any broadcaster.

"There's nothing in the stores anymore, right, Mom?" Ms. Kanno said the family was trying to build a reserve of food by setting aside a portion of what came every day, just in case the food shipments were cut off.

Ms. Espinoza said the building would begin setting aside a portion of maintenance payments and the rent the board received from a ground-floor storefront, with an eye toward building the reserve fund bit by bit.

Most of the respondents considered fraud an inevitable cost of doing business in this country, and many Indian companies were setting aside a portion of their turnover to offset anticipated losses.

We have already set aside a portion of our industry-funded reserves to cover those losses.

The British got the mandate for Palestine and set aside a portion for a Jewish national home.

City law requires developers to set aside a portion of new residential space for lower-income people.

Some of those Norwegian immigrants used to set aside a portion of their farmland income to support the village school.

To deal with one example of such myopia, Obama would require companies to automatically set aside a portion of their workers' salary in a 401(k) plan.