Which preposition to use with wages
"The wages of sin is death.
She quickly hid Mary's wages in the same place where she hid her own wages, so that her husband would not find the money and spend it for drink.
" In the present statis of things you want to blow up your nerve, and stand as firm as the rox of Jiberalter, and like BYRON exclaim: "To be or not to be, there's the question; Whether a man feels better to pay big wages for shoemakers, Or to suffer the slings and arrows of everybody, By hirin' Pig-tails for 1/2 price?" Poleticians of the different churches don't endorse our Selestial brother.
Discuss the necessity of a reduction in wages with (a) unscrupulous employers, (b) kind-hearted employers, (c) the employees.
In my political career I have found many bitternesses; but the campaign waged against me has not disturbed me at all.
Yet she knew if she gave up her wages to Pap she would be no better offindeed, she would be helpless in his hands; and the sum of them would not cover what the children all together could earn.
But I heard also that the bricklayers' labourers at Blackburn struck work last week for an advance of wages from 3s.
In the course of a long war, waged on sea and land between two great nations, this, "least of all," became a point of some importance to the authority investing it; the fort was well supplied with the machinery of death, and the prison filled with prisoners.
I find it stated that it is estimated that the loss of wages at present is at the rate of 136,094 pounds per week, and there is no doubt that the savings of the working classes are almost exhausted.
Mrs. Hill kept a small confectionery shop adjoining a cinema theatre to supplement her husband's wages by a little earnings of her own in order to support her child.
Should one man, in the same rank, receive larger wages than another, he who thought himself injured, as he who is paid less will always think, would be so far from exerting his abilities to attain an equality with his associate, that he would probably never be prevailed on to lay his hand upon the tackling, but would sit sullen, or work perversely, though the ship were labouring in a storm, or sinking in a battle.
Sentences: With such wages as those, he can barely a living.
A constant war was waged between Stuyvesant and the representatives of the people called the "Nine."
"They would have no kick coming, because, you see, no Spanish American could ever complain of getting his wages without having to do any work!"
The war had been waged under great difficulties by the Americans, who were not wholly united, and lacked money, men, arms, ships and experience, yet, under all these great difficulties, the United States came out of the war with the respect of the world, such as it had never before enjoyed.
But I need not tell honourable gentlemen present, who are so practically acquainted with this district, that that loss of seven millions in wages per annum is a very imperfect measure of the amount of suffering and loss which will be inflicted on this community three or four months hence.
Mr. H. says he finds his apprentices perfectly ready to work for wages during their own time.
Besides, sir, I do not think it possible by any law to limit the wages to be paid by merchants, since they will change the term of wages into that of a present, or admit the sailors to a small share in the freight, and so all the precaution we can take will become ineffectual.
It is proposed to restrain the merchants from giving wages beyond a certain rate, on the supposition that the sailors have no motive but that of larger wages, to prefer the service of the merchants to that of the crown.
The owners of a coal-mine, or a gas-works, a special brand of soap or biscuits, or a ring of capitalists who have secured control of a market, are often able to pay wages above the market level without endangering their commercial position.
He issued a rigorous fugitive-serf law, and even wrenched liberty from certain free peasants who had entered service for wages before his edicts.
Long-suffering farmers are in many cases paying wages out of their fast diminishing capital.
He was no match for his sister in the humorous bouts waged over his head against his father's prejudices and cherished social schemes.
Even were there a close federation of Unions of various women's trades a distant dream at presentthe larger proportion of recipients of low wages among women-workers as compared with men would render their success more difficult. § 9.
POLITICAL ECONOMY.Labor and Wages in America.