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1. The final payment, instead of falling upon the shop-keeper, would have fallen upon the consumer, with a considerable overcharge to the profit of the shop-keeper
2. Their wages are computed according to the common rate of the district in which they reside ; and, that they may be as little liable as possible to any overcharge, their yearly gains are estimated at no more than two hundred working days in the year
3. If any province complains of being assessed too high, it may, in the assessment of next year, obtain an abatement proportioned to the overcharge of the year before ; but it must pay in the mean time
4. The intendant, in order to be sure of finding the sum assessed upon his generality, was empowered to assess it in a larger sum, that the failure or inability of some of the contributors might be compensated by the overcharge of the rest ; and till 1765, the fixation of this surplus assessment was left altogether to his discretion
5. His employer, if he is a manufacturer, will charge upon the price of his goods the rise of wages, together with a profit, so that the final payment of the tax, together with this overcharge, will fall upon the consumer
6. If his employer is a farmer, the final payment, together with a like overcharge, will fall upon the rent of the landlord
7. Taxes upon necessaries, so far as they affect the labouring poor, are finally paid, partly by landlords, in the diminished rent of their lands, and partly by rich consumers, whether landlords or others, in the advanced price of manufactured goods; and always with a considerable overcharge
8. The final payment of both the one and the other falls altogether upon themselves, and always with a considerable overcharge
9. In those ignorant times, it was not understood, that the profits of merchants are a subject not taxable directly ; or that the final payment of all such taxes must fall, with a considerable overcharge, upon the consumers
10. I know, for the next one, I’ll overcharge her and you can step in and say, ‘wait a moment, you’ve over charged’ and when I argue, you can suggest she goes to eat elsewhere
11. overcharge you with all kinds of taxes
12. At one time or another systems of exorbitant overcharge were practiced upon the common people, especially during the great national feasts
13. Delivery: Were your household items delivered on time? What about their condition after the move? Was anything damaged, broken or missing? Did they request the previously negotiated price or did they overcharge you?
14. There’d be indicators for excessive heat, overcharge, operation in the red region, short circuit, etc shown on the pack itself
15. Those who were found to overcharge visiting pilgrims, especially the old and feeble ones, where then subjected to heavy fines and back taxes
16. As a result of this monetary corruption: the entire system increasingly becomes a way of finding more excuses to overcharge sick people for stuff they don’t need: and give them all kinds of unnecessary drugs and treatment that are often harmful and even fatal
17. Edward Butcher called out: “Yes – all builders overcharge by the same amount!” That got a big laugh
18. “Somebody called about an overcharge on the electric
19. We do not overcharge this chapter with illustrations of all possible relationships between the effectiveness indicator and the number of combinations used in the analysis
1. " Once she topped off and overcharged the capacitor system, she’d get an extra 11% more power, but it couldn’t stay in there for long
2. But this additional tax is levied only upon the district under-charged, and it is applied altogether to the relief of that overcharged, which consequently pays only nine hundred livres
3. Travelers were overcharged and they had no choice but to pay, otherwise they could not continue on their journey
4. He’d lingered in the focus longer than he would have otherwise, and sweat ran down his face as he became overcharged with power
5. Heaven and Earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away and be diligent to yourselves in case at any time your hearts be overcharged with rioting and drunkenness and cares of this life and so that day comes on you as unaware; because as a snare shall it come on all those who dwell on the face of the whole Earth; Therefore watch and pray always so that you may be counted as worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man
6. com as your advocate for service, pricing and repair you will have peace of mind knowing you are not being overcharged again
7. These were the leeches that overcharged the miners for basic necessities
8. I also didn’t go back to the store when I was overcharged recently on those two occasions
9. On top of that, the flares were not much different from standard Cluster signal flares, but with their tasrac cores overcharged to a certain degree
10. He couldn’t live with himself if he overcharged women who looked like his grandmother
11. Everything was gripped stiff with intensity, and her effort, overcharged, closed in on itself
12. "Amen!" responded Caderousse, waving his hand in token of adieu to Danglars, and bending his steps towards the Allees de Meillan, moving his head to and fro, and muttering as he went, after the manner of one whose mind was overcharged with one absorbing idea
13. She didn’t have to worry about commodity prices or operating costs or interest rates or the credit card Runner had taken in her name and overcharged on so she could never pay it off
14. “You deserved it,” laughed the bishop; “but, dear lady, have you ever paused to consider what a debt of gratitude the world owes us? When I listen to the outpourings of overcharged feminine hearts, and read the diaries, confessions and novels of innumerable women, I am forced to the conclusion that the church thoroughly understood one of the first needs of a woman’s heart when it established the confessional
1. the realm of possibilities that overcharges to your account
1. They made up for this loss by overcharging private insurance, i
2. At the money table of a near-by exchanger a violent and heated argument had arisen over the alleged overcharging of a Jew from Alexandria, while at the same moment the air was rent by the bellowing of a drove of some one hundred bullocks which was being driven from one section of the animal pens to another
3. Over the years, it seems to me that many businesses are making a living by overcharging for items
4. The attendant savings in Hospitals, if a few are shut down to keep all of the remaining closer to full production, with no overcharging, and fewer operations were done could be a try for 120B, with an actual savings of $90B for hospitals
5. For Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIPS I implement the reductions mentioned in the text: anti fraud, no overcharging, no unneeded procedures, and initiation of a co-pay for the wealthy (that saves 75B) to keep them from abusing the privilege of free medicine
6. My seneschal often has to slap fines on owners of cook shops who serve bad food or defraud their customers by overcharging them
7. After a year in Hong Kong I could speak a smattering of the local Cantonese dialect, I knew a northern Chinese restaurant from a Guangdong restaurant, and I had convinced myself that there was no better beer in the world than San Lik, the slang way of pronouncing San Miguel which identified you as a resident which in turn identified you as being off limits when it came to overcharging or harassing
8. These investigations looked at corrupt practices in hospital care, and individual physicians overcharging or phantom-billing for services