Sentence examples for were payments for from inspiring English sources

But those handouts were payments for oppression.

The wives threw a couple of baby showers for Gisel; among the gifts were payments for housekeepers.

Direct commissions are payments for the production of business.

Officials insist these are payments for public goods that do not distort the market.

They're payments for routine government services that a government official is legally obliged to perform but for which he's hoping to skim off a little extra.

In governing, elected officials treat citizens as customers and speak as if tax dollars are payments for goods and services received rather than an obligation of citizenship.

Mr. Adkinson said it was payment for equipment.

Some officials believe that was payment for the nuclear technology.

A bonus is payment for work above and beyond what is covered by a salary.

"There should be payment for the disadvantage, otherwise it will distort the integrity of the competition.

Rather, he said, the money was payment for other consulting work he had done with Mr. Cole.