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    1. and, frankly, a record wage


    2. He was trained and paid a good wage for


    3. bearings, and by combining her weekly wage packet with her


    4. In the second was a woman given the authority and power to wage


    5. three hearty meals a day and a modest wage at the end of the week


    6. The combination of fat wage packets and all day drinking in town centre pubs makes Boutport Street particularly hairy as the day draws down


    7. South will wage war with a large and


    8. happy with an hourly wage


    9. However, the "wage of sin" (Romans 6:23) is ultimately death, not the suffering


    10. Lately I have earned a 'umble but honest wage in the stables of some rich and respectable gentlemen of this city

    11. Can we shake on it? I mean, can I have your word that my new hourly wage will begin at the beginning of next month?(Markus holds out his hand


    12. Or in simple terms: prepare to wage war against the Elusivers or the slow-down field will be shut down


    13. 'I mean, what kind of a job was it? Minding a machine that puts caps on jam jars? Paid a wage at the end of the week


    14. himself a job at a fifth of the wage but based locally so that he can


    15. Her tuna fish husband (a major owner in the Starkist brand) has more than benefited from her being able to pass legislation that exempted Guanamian tuna fishermen from the Fair Labor Standards Act, thus ensuring that those fishermen, who catch the tuna that would become Starkist, would be paid less than the minimum wage


    16. “That’s because you only pay me minimum wage,” Roger said as he walked out


    17. It is not a fair wage to charge you in any other currency but the local one


    18. Where else have you seen graduates work for less than the minimum wage (it is not regulated and the pay vary in the extreme) because they are forced by law to do so? Advocates doing their version of articles called pupil ship is not paid even one cent but they are expected to entertain and pay membership fees towards the bar council for the privilege to be treated like a slave


    19. His unfortunate flirtation with Keynesian Economic Policies (Wage and Price Controls) and prolonging the ―Great Society‖ by introducing fresh initiatives, threw a monkey wrench into the economy but enough of that! Seeking (public) forgiveness, if not self-forgiveness, this tormented soul sought redemption in seclusion and productive writing


    20. Such powers including, but not limited to, (temporary) wage and price controls, rationing, production quotas, extra-legal surveillances and curfews, limit, to some extent, a society‘s freedoms

    21. Wage and Price controls and excessive regulations are prime examples that have produced dire consequences on the open market


    22. These differences must necessarily circumscribe or limit, whether influenced by natural designs, circumstance or purposeful intent, the decisions that (we) make or don‘t make, or are unable to make, for that matter; for example, a below-average student seeking enrollment at an Ivy League College or a modest wage earner looking to buy a home in a pricey neighborhood


    23. being the underling/employee, the wage slave


    24. ) Obama did provide some relief for student loans, did get the tax rate raised slightly for the wealthiest, and at this writing is trying to raise the minimum wage


    25. They were expected to work for minimum wage, pay a babysitter, and take the bus to work


    26. Instead, he transformed himself, by his own ineptitude, into a political caricature of himself reduced to spending his remaining political capital on ceremonial issues while making obscene concessions to Big Business whose inexhaustible demand for cheap(er) labor at the expense of (native) low income wage earners, many of whom are younger African Americans living on the fringe, are morally and providentially unconscionable on every conceivable level


    27. Winship also tried to block the new minimum wage laws from applying to Puerto Rico


    28. She took it seriously enough and could have drawn a wage in any business I ever heard of


    29. As Colling sat in the back of the vehicle with his M-1 clasped between his knees, he thought about the possibility that he might find himself in a firefight against one of the “Werewolf” organizations that the Nazis had boasted would wage guerrilla warfare against the occupation forces


    30. Her note and the contents of the package were her invitation for me to wage war against whoever had killed her man

    31. They might be much more cowed now, but that’s not what he needed to wage war


    32. Is there really a time to mourn, to kill, to throw stones, to hate, to wage war?


    33. I can’t wage war against Abnegation, against my family


    34. maintained wage, even if there is much supply of


    35. The Bank doesn’t need to worry with the participators’ cadaster because this is the role of the Area of Activity DOCUMENTATION that doesn’t have to worry with acquisition of computers and stationeries to accomplish its task because this problem is of the Area of Activity TRADE that doesn’t have to worry with protection of the products because this problem is of the Area of Activity SAFETY that stops worrying with personnel service because the problem of workers’ allocation belongs to the Area of Activity HUMAN RELATIONS that doesn’t have to involve with the payment of the employees’ wage because this problem is of the Area of Activity FINANCES in which the Bank belongs


    36. #3, they are receiving more than their wage in benefits


    37. couldn’t wage a war in the Philippines while her resources were in Cuba


    38. The human propensity to wage war comes from acting upon such primitive emotions


    39. It included the idea that both parties to a labor agreement, the individual employee and the owner of a business, a mine, or a factory, had the same liberty to bargain for the wage paid to the worker


    40. “liberty” the individual worker had was that of taking the wage offered or getting out of the way

    41. In the meantime the legions of rebellion are judging how best to complete the extinction of the civilization against which they wage their holy Civil War


    42. challenged its elected leaders to a “sincere and friendly” dialogue and to understanding rather than to wage war


    43. wealthy to wage earners and the poor and the public sector,


    44. government have chosen to wage war against al-Qaeda, they inter-


    45. night janitor at a nursing home, food preparation at another, earning only minimum wage


    46. curred yesterday when the Senate moved to take up, a bill that would simultaneously raise minimum wage and slash taxes on inherited


    47. One of the highest wage scales for teachers is in the state of New Jersey


    48. (I decided early on that it stood for “Mouse”) Merritt a handwritten fax at 7pm their time at the urgent request of our program management business officer, Jim Candelaria—who later stabbed me in the back, because HE was very unhappy that NASA had not answered my subordinate’s November 2001 letter requesting the Service Contract Act Wage Determination upward revisions for our blue collar workers


    49. She would have liked to have gone for higher education, but it had been made clear to her that a wage packet was more important, and that


    50. My mother thought a wage packet was more important







































    1. They waged war across continents


    2. The prince marshalled his forces, made plans and waged wars


    3. As the defenders feared that it would really happen to them, they waged a desperate resistance


    4. Within his cells, another battle was being waged


    5. At the conclusion of the late war, the most expensive that Great Britain ever waged, her agriculture was as flourishing, her manufacturers as numerous and as fully employed, and her commerce as extensive, as they had ever been before


    6. waged in space, had never seen the mass death that so many of them had witnessed


    7. A Cultural War waged by determined ideas is a much more subtle, deceptive and formidable form of warfare inasmuch as it craftily conceals its (unstated) purpose; a social and cultural conversion cutting at the (very) heart of a society‘s traditional belief system; a gradual, however determined process that oftentimes goes unchecked until an awakening society (roused from its slumbers) suddenly finds itself in the midst of altered customs and norms no longer consonant with that society‘s accustomed practices


    8. This/these remarkable event(s) quickly brought to mind the Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) waged ten years earlier by coalition forces led by the United States against Iraq who, having invaded Kuwait and seizing possession of its oil wells, was making veiled threats against its Saudi (Arabian) neighbor


    9. Once again we are hearing the familiar rallying cries of racism, inequality, poverty and injustice that have no clear meaning to the war itself other than it is being waged against a ―darker‖ race


    10. This is a serious matter, really! That for years the French have been rubbing accusations of racism and social violence in our (collective) noses, I will simply respond by saying, welcome to the real world mon ami! America has waged its own historic battles against poverty, racism and unemployment over the years

    11. Some have the false impression that all white Americans before 1900 or so, presidents included, were all deeply racist towards Natives and waged unceasing war on them


    12. The Count’s chauffeur was killed by a stray bullet when he was unlucky enough to have driven one of von Brechstler’s cars into a street where a street-battle, so common after the war, was being waged between two opposing factions of Strassenkämpfer


    13. waged against the Tibetan women to reduce their population


    14. Their battle will be waged not against the Erudite-Dauntless army but against Erudite innocents and the knowledge they have worked so hard to acquire


    15. A civil war, waged by those with damaged genes, against the government and everyone with pure genes


    16. 46 And Jacob approached and drew his bow, and came near to the mighty men, and killed three of their men with the bow, and the remaining eight turned back, and note, the war waged against them in the front and rear, and they were greatly afraid of their lives, and could not stand before the sons of Jacob, and they fled from before them


    17. 50 And the inhabitants of the city had all descended into the city, and the sons of Jacob came to them in different directions, and the battle waged against them from the front and the rear, and the sons of Jacob struck them terribly, and killed about twenty thousand of them men and women, not one of them could stand up against the sons of Jacob


    18. 1 And it was after this that the sons of Esau waged war with the sons of Jacob, and the sons of Esau fought with the sons of Jacob in Hebron, and Esau was still lying dead, and not buried


    19. 31 And in ten days' time the children of Esau again waged war with the children of Seir in the wilderness of Paran, and the battle was very severe on the children of Seir, and the children of Esau prevailed at this time over the children of Seir, and the children of Seir were hit before the children of Esau, and the children of Esau killed from them about two thousand men


    20. 14 And in the thirty-sixth year of the children of Israel's departing from Egypt the Lord struck the heart of Sihon, King of the Amorites, and he waged war, and went out to fight against the children of Moab

    21. hoping that never again will war be waged in the name of God


    22. 50 And the inhabitants of the city had all descended into the city and the sons of Jacob came to them in different directions and the battle waged against them from the front and the rear and the sons of Jacob struck them terribly and killed about twenty thousand of them men and women not one of them could stand up against the sons of Jacob


    23. 1 And it was after this that the sons of Esau waged war with the sons of Jacob and the sons of Esau fought with the sons of Jacob in Hebron and Esau was still lying dead and not buried


    24. 31 And in ten days' time the children of Esau again waged war with the children of Seir in the wilderness of Paran and the battle was very severe on the children of Seir and the children of Esau prevailed at this time over the children of Seir and the children of Seir were hit before the children of Esau and the children of Esau killed from them about two thousand men


    25. 14 And in the thirty-sixth year of the children of Israel's departing from Egypt the Lord struck the heart of Sihon King of the Amorites and he waged war and went out to fight against the children of Moab


    26. See all the animal figures on both sides of the avenue all the way to the palace and all the stone pillars in between the statuary? They’re called steles and are inscribed with the story of all the great and victorious battles and campaigns he has waged


    27. While twelve hours passed for you, we have waged this war for seventy-seven and a half years of unremitting battle


    28. with the story of all the great and victorious battles and campaigns he has waged


    29. war that seemed without end was being waged within me


    30. The presence of armed warships on the Great Lakes has been a historically sensitive issue between the United States and Canada since the War of 1812-1814, when then-British Canada and the United States waged war against each other on land and water

    31. His white face was slippery with sweat and pulled from the struggle of living, neck ropey with the battle for breath and his head bowed as if surrendering to the war for life that was being waged in his body


    32. The battle for my soul had been waged and was now over


    33. Zoe was completely oblivious to the small war being waged within Eva


    34. The wars they waged were never going to end


    35. Christians betrayed their own God and waged violent wars against


    36. looking like she had waged war with hell


    37. “Our ancestors waged campaigns of this nature


    38. Then as I grew older it became an intellectual revolt against a world that judged me a criminal, while the governments that made those laws waged war, assisted multinationals to destroy the environment and rip off indigenous people, encouraged religions to brainwash kids with mind destroying crap, and put out the welcome mat to trading partners that torture their prisoners


    39. It has been ages since direct war was waged between the Titans of the distant Planes


    40. Jack waged his tail in excitement; he sat up and whined at the old blind man

    41. next few centuries, we waged a protracted war with the organism, killing it in order to pave the


    42. This man went to the mountains and waged a war on everyone: on every raider, warrior, bandit


    43. constantly he waged war,1 always was the conqueror


    44. Once more, they seek war and have waged it on us


    45. The oliphants sounded a fanfare of triumph all over the plain, and the hoofs of the victors crunched in the breasts of the vanquished as all the straggling, shining lines converged inward like the spokes of a glittering wheel, to the spot where the last survivor still waged unequal strife


    46. In the home and in the streets, there is, in a very concrete sense, a war being waged


    47. For five hundred years Aquilonia and Nemedia have intermittently waged war, and the ultimate advantage has always lain with the Aquilonians


    48. For thousands of years the Arct explored the cosmos and waged war on anything remotely human until all those within their reach once again, became extinct


    49. Battles, more like wars, were constantly waged in this city


    50. Between them, three Suride Town police officers waged a verbal war with the captain of the train security, who had been summoned by the ruckus to the camp









































    1. "I have delivered lock fittings bigger than this but that was at competitive wages


    2. "That's a full year's wages son, so no, I don't think so


    3. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in


    4. His staff was happy with the style and got into it, especially when they found there were good wages involved so there were now some creative artists turning out some really beautiful saddles using some of the exotic plumes that come from the tails of many species of local animals


    5. Taxes in the time of Jesus were somewhere around 80 or 90 percent of the Jew’s wages


    6. “She has lived entirely on plunder, and the wages of prostitution”


    7. The girl’s a trained hairdresser and her mum has a job for her if she can only find accommodation in the village – and you know just how difficult that is! There wouldn’t be a problem with the rent as she would be eligible for assistance if her wages are too low


    8. accepting the increase in wages without a second thought, took


    9. 'I'll have to dock your wages, I can see that


    10. are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earns wages

    11. earns wages to put it into a bag with holes


    12. It must be getting on for five years … or was it six? She’d been dancing in the troupe for several seasons – become a long standing member of the group of girls who spent their time working in the revue, keeping body and soul together on the wages Masa paid them


    13. In exchanging the complete manufacture either for money, for labour, or for other goods, over and above what may be sufficient to pay the price of the materials, and the wages of the workmen, something must be given for the profits of the undertaker of the work, who hazards his stock in this adventure


    14. The value which the workmen add to the materials, therefore, resolves itself in this case into two parts, of which the one pays their wages, the other the profits of their employer upon the whole stock of materials and wages which he advanced


    15. The profits of stock, it may perhaps be thought, are only a different name for the wages of a particular sort of labour, the labour of inspection and direction


    16. His wages properly express the value of this labour of inspection and direction


    17. In the price of commodities, therefore, the profits of stock constitute a component part altogether different from the wages of labour, and regulated by quite different principles


    18. An additional quantity, it is evident, must be due for the profits of the stock which advanced the wages and furnished the materials of that labour


    19. In the price of corn, for example, one part pays the rent of the landlord, another pays the wages or maintenance of the labourers and labouring cattle employed in producing it, and the third pays the profit of the farmer


    20. But it must be considered, that the price of any instrument of husbandry, such as a labouring horse, is itself made up of the same time parts ; the rent of the land upon which he is reared, the labour of tending and rearing him, and the profits of the farmer, who advances both the rent of this land, and the wages of this labour

    21. In the price of flour or meal, we must add to the price of the corn, the profits of the miller, and the wages of his servants ; in the price of bread, the profits of the baker, and the wages of his servants; and in the price of both, the labour of transporting the corn from the house of the farmer to that of the miller, and from that of the miller to that of the baker, together with the profits of those who advance the wages of that labour


    22. In the price of linen we must add to this price the wages of the flax-dresser, of the spinner, of the weaver, of the bleacher, etc


    23. As any particular commodity comes to be more manufactured, that part of the price which resolves itself into wages and profit, comes to be greater in proportion to that which resolves itself into rent


    24. The capital which employs the weavers, for example, must be greater than that which employs the spinners; because it not only replaces that capital with its profits, but pays, besides, the wages of the weavers : and the profits must always bear some proportion to the capital


    25. In the most improved societies, however, there are always a few commodities of which the price resolves itself into two parts only the wages of labour, and the profits of stock ; and a still smaller number, in which it consists altogether in the wages of labour


    26. The price which is paid to them by the stone-cutter, is altogether the wages of their labour ; neither rent nor profit makes an part of it


    27. As the price or exchangeable value of every particular commodity, taken separately, resolves itself into some one or other, or all of those three parts ; so that of all the commodities which compose the whole annual produce of the labour of every country, taken complexly, must resolve itself into the same three parts, and be parcelled out among different inhabitants of the country, either as the wages of their labour, the profits of their stock, or the rent of their land


    28. Wages, profit, and rent, are the three original sources of all revenue, as well as of all exchangeable value


    29. The revenue derived from labour is called wages; that derived from stock, by the person who manages or employs it, is called profit; that derived from it by the person who does not employ it himself, but lends it to another, is called the interest or the use of money


    30. To him, land is only the instrument which enables him to earn the wages of this labour, and to make the profits of this stock

    31. All taxes, and all the revenue which is founded upon them, all salaries, pensions, and annuities of every kind, are ultimately derived from some one or other of those three original sources of revenue, and are paid either immediately or mediately from the wages of labour, the profits of stock, or the rent of land


    32. What remains of the crop, after paying the rent, therefore, should not only replace to them their stock employed in cultivation, together with its ordinary profits, but pay them the wages which are due to them, both as labourers and overseers


    33. But wages evidently make a part of it


    34. The farmer, by saving these wages, must necessarily gain them


    35. Wages, therefore, are in this case confounded with profit


    36. An independent manufacturer, who has stock enough both to purchase materials, and to maintain himself till he can carry his work to market, should gain both the wages of a journeyman who works under a master, and the


    37. His whole gains, however, are commonly called profit, and wages are, in this case, too, confounded with profit


    38. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third


    39. Both rent and profit are, in this case, confounded with wages


    40. These ordinary or average rates may be called the natural rates of wages, profit and rent, at the time and place in which they commonly prevail

    41. When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in raising, preparing, and bringing it to market, according to their natural rates, the commodity is then sold for what may be called its natural price


    42. The occasional and temporary fluctuations in the market price of any commodity fall chiefly upon those parts of its price which resolve themselves into wages and profit


    43. Such fluctuations affect both the value and the rate, either of wages or of profit, according as the market happens to be either overstocked or understocked with commodities or with labour, with work done, or with work to be done


    44. It has no effect upon the wages of the weavers


    45. It raises the wages of journeymen tailors


    46. It sinks, too, the wages of the workmen employed in preparing such commodities, for which all demand is stopped for six months, perhaps for a twelvemonth


    47. They properly consist in the high wages of that labour


    48. The whole quantity brought to market, therefore, may be disposed of to those who are willing to give more than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land which produced them, together with the wages of the labour and the profits of the stock which were employed in preparing and bringing them to market, according to their natural rates


    49. The wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in bringing such commodities to market, on the contrary, are seldom out of their natural proportion to those of the other employments of labour and stock in their neighbourhood


    50. The same statutes of apprenticeship and other corporation laws, indeed, which, when a manufacture is in prosperity, enable the workman to raise his wages a good deal above their natural rate, sometimes oblige him, when it decays, to let them down a good deal below it














































    1. So Daphne was still blinded with rage, still vengeful, still cheating and now waging war on the art world for sure


    2. It would not be until occupying Germany after World War II that the US learned the right way to deal with a defeated enemy with an evil ideology determined to start wars: execute all the leaders guilty of war crimes and waging aggressive war, while removing the rest from government for good


    3. These same Christians call me names and tell me I am waging a spiritual war


    4. organization dedicated to waging class warfare in America


    5. Soon my people will decimate themselves by waging a pointless civil war and my mother will die


    6. waging wars but others near, around, or even on the other side of the planet


    7. “My spies have told me that Jasra and the former General of her forces, Ryan Secrest are waging war on the Border Kingdom


    8. unbiased literature about why the war is really waging


    9. holy lands and was waging crusades in the name of God


    10. These people form the secret society that controls the world by waging perpetual war so that they will remain perpetually rich, living off the working class

    11. War World I and War World II fit this description and it seems waging of war by the United States against Afghanistan and Iraq in the first decade of the twenty-first is of this same type


    12. There was always a game in progress, surrounded by a crowd watching the combatants animatedly waging their war


    13. She also saw a man waging a heroic, private, inner battle with schizophrenia


    14. While the German military was waging conventional war on nations, Hitler’s SS was


    15. waging a race war, following the army and systematically locating and exterminating Jews and other minorities


    16. waging a winter campaign in Russia


    17. Alliance, waging Jihad in the name of Allah


    18. We have been waging a temporal war for control of my present, your future


    19. The leader seems to be emitting a signal that tells his followers: I can increase your chances to win the constant war that you are waging to find food and shelter, to be respected, to enhance your personal autonomy and security, and o have a say about your future


    20. On the average High Street or strip mall however, in the supermarkets and clothing stores, there is a price war waging which shows no sign of abating

    21. It was a war the man was waging against the world and those in it who stood against his desires


    22. waging overseas, no new wars have broken out – although North Korea has flexed


    23. Yazril and I both agree that there’s no imaginable way Kierd could have developed such weapons, much less gathered enough resources to build such a fleet while in the middle of waging a war


    24. There’s no way they’d have the resources to be able to send that sort of fleet on a side trip, while in the middle of waging a war


    25. The right action requires the waging of war by concentrating on the Self and


    26. The importance of waging war-of-action for the


    27. with the act of waging war? What kind of war is it? When the mind is


    28. while waging his wars


    29. If neither of these are achieved, then the War on Terror will be eternal unless those who are waging it cease their assault against the minds and lives of those it seeks to control in the name of a GovCorp for the few


    30. The same method of waging spiritual war was applied by some of the greatest commanders known in the past, such as Timur bey or Timurlenk, who gained most of his victories in this way

    31. Curiosity and anger were waging a war in my head, but at his words the curiosity won the battle


    32. Then it was Don’s turn to share the extraordinary battle he’d been waging against Melvin: All about the landlord’s peep-holes


    33. A few minutes later, we found ourselves in Kennedy's laboratory, where he had gathered together an amazing collection of paraphernalia in the warfare of science against crime which he had been waging during the years that I had known him


    34. 5 - hunters waging a war against Alaska at that very moment


    35. The battles described are pictures of man waging war against mortal thoughts


    36. By repeating in history books…over, and over, endless battles, wars, and all the kings, and the dictators, and the presidents who instigated them… and their transparently fraudulent excuses for waging war


    37. This, however; did not stop Kings from going to War and waging War


    38. were fiercely independent; they stuck to their ways as though waging a battle, even when


    39. He was a young Marine, eager but tempered by the fight we’d been waging the past week


    40. He was a young Marine, eager but tempered by the fight we’d been waging the past week

    41. At the work sites, Omori’s POWs were waging a guerrilla war


    42. And death rose clearly and vividly before her mind as the sole means of bringing back love for her in his heart, of punishing him and of gaining the victory in that strife which the evil spirit in possession of her heart was waging


    43. And the agricultural South, waging war with the industrial


    44. Such a market suggests that bulls and bears are waging a war with each other, but no one side is clearly winning


    45. Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is not the thing for the peoples


    46. “Our Princess opposed her father’s waging war on you and your comrades in the North,” Gonzalo said


    47. Some out of jealousy at his success, some fearful of the power he was amassing, with this terrifying new means of waging war and the wealth it showered on his little March


    48. We were waging a desperate warfare, each man against his neighbour; and it may truthfully be said, both in the literal and the figurative sense, that the strong devoured the weak


    49. Rome is waging her tedious war with Mithridates


    50. But when Christians live in the midst of a non-Christian society which defends itself by force of arm, and calls upon the Christians to join in waging war, then the Christians have an opportunity for revealing the truth to them who know it not







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    Synonyms for "wage"

    earnings pay remuneration salary wage engage return reward stipend allowance fee compensation engage in undertake pursue carry on fulfil

    "wage" definitions

    something that remunerates


    carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)