Sentence examples for unprecedented payments from inspiring English sources

Society must take a stand on what is right and wrong.Jim KreiselWinona, MinnesotaSIR – You fail to mention the effect on his re-election of Mr Bush's unprecedented payments through federal faith-based initiatives to religious organisations (and the promise of more to come).

Five Middle Eastern countries will soon get unprecedented payments to conduct studies of the environmental damage caused by the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War, when Iraqi troops set fire to hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells, shrouding the region in smoke for months.

Alec Nacamuli London The unprecedented severance payments to David Cameron's special advisers at this time of austerity constitute one of the nastiest, most arrogant actions of this generation (Cameron overruled Whitehall to boost aides' payouts to £1m, 18 July).

Last year, the office of the USPS inspector general released a report detailing the ways in which postal banking would be beneficial to both the public and the USPS itself, which has been made to endure an unprecedented advanced payment of $103.7 billion by 2016 to cover future health benefits of postal retirees for the next 75 years.

Just before the lunar new year the government announced unprecedented one-off payments totalling 9.7 billion yuan to 74m people living close to the poverty line.

If this was a rather extravagant promise for an austerity-fixated politician in 2010, it sounds positively lavish after the country has learned how protection for older benefit claimants comes hand-in-hand with an unprecedented assault on payments for younger people.

"Karl is a tenacious entrepreneur with a great eye for what's coming next, a strong ability to execute, and an unprecedented understanding of the payments landscape.

One area that is rather unprecedented is that these payments would be going to a corporation and would eventually materialize as profit for Trump.

"Labor's latest unprecedented attacks on family support payments and household budgets [come] at the time when families can least afford it," he said.

Thompson added that a dozens of additional APIs will be released in the coming year, creating an unprecedented open platform for online payments development.

This proposal to return Battery Park City to the City of New York may seem unprecedented, but in 2003 a payment of $1 gave much of Governor's Island back to the city as well.