Sentence examples for successive raises from inspiring English sources

In 2004, workers would be given two successive raises, bringing the salaries of Liberty's bus operators to parity with drivers in the New York City Transit Authority, union leaders said.

Other letters saw the heir to the throne admit to holding "old-fashioned views" as he lobbied successive Education Secretaries; raise concerns about the fate of the Patagonian Toothfish; and label opponents to badger culling as "intellectually dishonest".

The experiment was divided into two stages, carried out in successive housings, raised in the same environment (or aviary).

These successive methylations raised the question as to whether they take place in one, or different active sites.

The divergence achieved was high, i.e. 3 genetic standard deviations [ 22], and was confirmed over successive cohorts raised in the same flock between 2005 and 2009 (RR, unpublished data).

Experimental animals were 120 piglets (63 females and 57 males) randomly selected from 28 litters (4 5 animals per litter) of purebred Large White pigs and produced in 3 successive batches raised 3 weeks apart.

Some central banks are even starting to tighten in a more conventional way – overnight the Royal Bank of Australia raised rates by 0.25% in its second successive monthly rise.

Increases in average life expectancy have led successive governments to raise the state pension age to 67 by 2028 – for men and women.

Over the past decade, Mexico has expanded access to medical services as successive governments have raised spending toward reaching the far-off goal of universal health coverage.

However, successive attempts to raise funds and build a home for such a theatre were stymied for various reasons, including World Wars I and II.

A stubborn gap in attainment between Britain's best- and worst-performing students has pinned the UK to the middle of international education rankings, despite years of effort by successive governments to raise standards.