Sentence examples for temporary holiday from inspiring English sources

And the shift may be temporary: holiday shopping appears to have increased a little in 2009.

Perhaps the most widespread are America's interest-only mortgages, which give homeowners a temporary holiday from principal repayments.

Street signs for churches are "directional," she said, and garlands and lights during Christmas are "temporary holiday displays".

Fortunately, there is a powerful fiscal tool that could address both problems: Congress could grant workers a temporary holiday from the forced savings program known as Social Security.

Two long years later, he found a temporary holiday job on the housekeeping staff at Macy's on 34th Street, an advancement in his career.

Earlier this year, the retailer said it was dismissing some store employees, but a vast majority of those were temporary holiday workers that it no longer needed after Christmas.

In January, Congress effectively increased payroll taxes by declining to extend a temporary tax holiday.

The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 offered a temporary tax holiday that allowed firms to repatriate cash at about a 5 percent tax rate, but there were strings attached.

The study said two in five of New York's retail workers were full-time, slightly more than half were part-time, and the rest were temporary or holiday workers.

Specifically, multinational corporations — including Cisco, Pfizer and Qualcomm — want a temporary "tax holiday" that would allow them to bring foreign-held earnings back to the United States at a vastly reduced tax rate.

When America granted a similar, albeit temporary, tax holiday in 2004, several hundred billion dollars were shipped home; the inflow may even have bolstered the dollar exchange rate.In Britain the change will mainly help British multinational firms that have sold foreign divisions in countries with low or no taxes on such disposals.