What's the difference between clawback and genuine?

Clawback


Definition:

  • (n.) A flatterer or sycophant.
  • (a.) Flattering; sycophantic.
  • (v. t.) To flatter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is likely to call for banks to retain more capital and for some form of clawback if firms perform less well than expected.
  • (2) "If the same individual maximises the pension tax relief – they can put in up to £245,000 of their salary and get relief – then the cost of the tax relief clawback will be around £51,000.
  • (3) "If you listen to what Lloyds said in 2011 when they took the initial £3.2bn charge – that was used for a pretext for making a clawback on 12 executives.
  • (4) When they are paid next year the G20 deal brokered by Barack Obama and Brown means that a proportion of bonuses will be deferred and payments will be subject to clawback provisions.
  • (5) Any Treasury clawback will only serve to take resources still further from the frontline.
  • (6) Given that clawback has only been possible since 2010, attention focused on former chief executive Michael Geoghegan and Sandy Flockhart, the former boss of Mexican operations, who left this month due to ill health, as likely candidates for clawback.
  • (7) This includes monitoring sales to ensure that colleagues have met customer needs appropriately and communicated important information clearly … We also have clawback mechanisms in place for any colleagues who make inappropriate sales."
  • (8) And as the provisions continue to rise, Gordon believes the bank could look at further clawbacks against its executives.
  • (9) Such clawbacks may be a feature of the bonus season because of the waves of scandal to hit the industry ranging from payment protection insurance mis-selling in the UK to fines for Libor fixing and money laundering.
  • (10) Lagarde added that the IMF’s research suggests bonuses should be tied to longer-term, rather than short-term gains; and that banks should use “clawback”, to force staff who have hit their firm’s performance to pay back part of their bonuses.
  • (11) Hampton won't give numerical details, but explains that RBS is regularly recovering payments from previous years: We've done quite a lot of clawback in the last couple of years, on a variety of issues.
  • (12) (Carriers had a "clawback" clause in case customers abandoned the contract.)
  • (13) Osborne says the Britain has been leading the way on bankers remuneration in recent years, on transparency and clawbacks.
  • (14) "The Walker report has left in a reference to 'clawback' but it is not clear whether it means asking for the money back once it has been paid or forfeiture of the deferred, but as yet unpaid bonuses," said Alistair Woodland, a partner at Clifford Chance.
  • (15) If the regulator is allowed to cap retail electricity bills, a "clawback" mechanism, already used by some states in the US, would have to be incorporated based on future movements in wholesale energy markets.
  • (16) As of next April, the new lower threshold for clawback of working tax credit on income over £3,850 will mean that I will lose 48% of a proportion of my state pension and also of any small profits I might make in my business.
  • (17) Apparently this clawback arrangement will incentivise me to work.
  • (18) Ideally, these should be subject to clawback over the long-term.
  • (19) The bank is keen to avoid a fresh revolt at this annual meeting after its report outlining directors' pay and the clawback provisions is published next month.
  • (20) Bonuses must be spread over a longer period; they must be subject to clawback; more of the spoils must be paid in shares; and more information must be published about who gets what.

Genuine


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
  • (2) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
  • (3) A case study of a patient with both documented genuine and hysterical pseudo-seizures demonstrates use of the model.
  • (4) "Their prioritising of pensioner spending over unemployment benefits fits with a picture seen across this generational work: they care about groups they see as being in genuine need and they put particular emphasis on helping those who have contributed."
  • (5) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
  • (6) And in terms of genuine defence needs (as opposed to state militarism), what greater known threat is there to human security than the prospect of runaway climate change?
  • (7) They can genuinely believe their partner provoked them to commit the abuse, just so they could get them in trouble.
  • (8) These issues all need to be addressed before people feel like the economy is genuinely starting to recover.
  • (9) It's a genuine fear, to be terrified of being labelled a racist.
  • (10) If you're sincere and smart and genuine and lovable that's what's going to come across in your videos and tweets."
  • (11) 17 genuine tumors were found (39%): 8 germ-cell tumors, 7 cystomas respectively cystadenomas and 2 tumors of the gonadal stroma.
  • (12) A placebo effect could not definitely be ruled out, but the startling changes seen in patients who had been followed for years with other forms of therapy suggest strongly that this improvement was genuine.
  • (13) The present research focuses on indirect memory tests as a potential means of discriminating between those who genuinely suffer from amnesia and those who are simulating.
  • (14) Speed's mother said she had watched again some television footage of her son before his death and realised his smile didn't seem genuine as "it didn't extend to his eyes".
  • (15) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
  • (16) Much criticism, though, is based on genuine misunderstanding or a wild misrepresentation of reality – even in the pages of prestigious newspapers.
  • (17) There were no significant differences between the effects of genuine and sham acupuncture either on exercise test variables or on subjective variables.
  • (18) The training effect represents a genuine adaptation to repeated exercise but is short lived.
  • (19) Furthermore, when compared with our recent findings with mouse bone marrow cells, the effects, their magnitude and concentration dependence imply genuine species differences in the responses of mice and rats to these hormones.
  • (20) "Those shows are genuinely moving us forward as an industry, they are dragging the rest of us behind," he says.

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