Sentence examples for temporary rate from inspiring English sources

A temporary rate cut might not do much to help the economy, but at least it wouldn't do much harm.

Earlier this month, the state's legislature approved a temporary rate increase to ease the pain for the utilities.

Price hedges reduced the effect by $50 million, and a 1.25percenttemporaryrateate increase put in place Aug. 7 increased revenue by $50 million, Mr. Clanin said.

Idaho Power and regulators held emergency meetings, and customers were soon hit with a temporary rate increase of about 44 percent.

Yet the threat of more power shortages like the one that crippled SDL has frightened executives far more than the temporary rate increases announced last week that will raise their energy bills by 7percentto15percentcent.

Without Congressional action, the temporary rate will expire at the end of this year, possibly doubling the amounts some companies will have to put into their pension plans, Mr. Gebhardtsbauer said.

In December 2007, to great fanfare, the Bush Treasury cajoled the mortgage industry into promising a (voluntary) temporary rate-freeze for certain groups of borrowers.

To correct the course of my disappointment my father called in a favor from the National Maritime Union in New York that allowed my temporary rating as an ordinary seaman aboard one of the family's last surviving freighters during the summer between my sophomore and junior years at college.

This is a temporary basal rate setting before it reverts to the preprogrammed basal rate after 2 h.

In January, after California's power managers authorized a temporary electricity rate rise to help the state's two largest, nearly bankrupt utility companies, Gov. Gray Davis said no more would be necessary to prevent rolling blackouts.

The council, a business group that lobbies on employee benefits issues, is urging Congress to make permanent a temporary interest rate increase it granted companies for use in calculating total liabilities in 2002 and 2003.