Sentence examples for side earnings from inspiring English sources
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who has regularly starred in the top five with annual side earnings close to a quarter of a million pounds, came in at position 30.
On the down side, earnings at utilities are expected to fall 6percentt, while the profits of telecommunications companies are forecast to drop 2percentt.
This is a common practice elsewhere in the country's corrupt and ramshackle public institutions, where workers are prepared to forfeit most of their meagre official pay in return for the opportunities for side-earnings that state jobs offer.
On the bullish side, corporate earnings continue to expand briskly and should be up better than 15% this year, and another 10% in 2007.
On the positive side, the earnings of foreign workers have helped boost African economies as they remitted funds to their home countries.
On Google's side, its earnings from last quarter indicated that its non-search ads were on track to reach $5 billion a year, or 12percentt of its total business.
Beyond that, it will be up to shareholders to lock in lower pay -- with the flip side of higher earnings and dividends.
There have also been unwelcome developments on the other side of corporate earnings statements.
"The problem now is that the earnings side of the picture is incredibly murky," he said.
In what seems to be a pattern, investors are focusing on the brighter side of corporate earnings, or altogether ignoring downbeat news from stalwarts like Dell Computer and Nokia.
On the revenue side, increasing the earnings subject to the payroll tax makes sense but would not come close to offsetting the combined effects of the proposed benefit cuts and those already in law.
