Sentence examples for system of contributions from inspiring English sources

Calling for a radical shake-up of the way that money is raised to finance the bloc, the European Commission proposed a financial transaction tax to replace the current system of contributions from member countries — something unlikely to be approved by national capitals.

But cronyism and favouritism, and worse, still exist.This latest affair comes at a time when the commission is trying to overhaul the EU's system of contributions to the euro90 billion ($105 billion) budget, to streamline EU decision-taking, to reform the CAP, and to prepare for the entry of candidates from Eastern Europe.

The six-month scheme, which saw $537 a month allocated to 100 of the city's poorest families, might not sound like much, but in Italy, where there is no minimum wage and unemployment payments are dependent on an unforgiving system of contributions, the mayor insists it's a significant intervention.

All workers would make contributions and would get the guaranteed pension (thus re-establishing a system of contribution-based welfare), rising in line with earnings.

Our proposal is for a system of graduate contributions that is fair for all.

Just as unclear are the details of his "European tax in place of the current system of national contributions".

Mr. Ney said the activities of the new groups showed that the law had failed to rid the campaign finance system of unlimited contributions, instead routing the money away from the parties and into the hands of outside organizations.

Backers of the Shays-Meehan bill found new fuel for their fight in the Senate, where Kenneth L. Lay, the former chairman of the Enron Corporation, whom some are calling the poster boy for changing the system of large contributions, was citing his Fifth Amendment rights and refusing to testify.

Cable said the tuition fee rise was a central part of a policy that he said was designed to "maintain high quality universities in the long term, tackle the fiscal deficit and provide a more progressive system of graduate contributions based on people's ability to pay".

Such arrangements may involve an international system of voluntary contributions to a world buffer stock; alternatively, they could take the form of an agreement among nations to maintain a minimum level of stocks for times of scarcity in accordance with internationally agreed rules.

"I am entirely committed to a progressive system of graduate contributions, the details of which we will be able to confirm shortly," says Mr Cable in his letter.