(1) The industry will pay a levy of £180m a year, or the equivalent of £10.50 a year on all household insurance policies.
(2) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(3) The levy would also confirm the dramatically changing nature of Pakistan's ties with its western partners, from a strategic alliance to a transactional relationship, with deep suspicions on both sides.
(4) Only appropriations bills and the deficit levy on high income earners are certain to pass.
(5) The chancellor has stated that such levies will also be introduced in France and Germany.
(6) The sanctions that could be levied in the aftermath of the Geneva meeting were expected to focus on Putin's close associates, including oligarchs who control much of Russia's wealth, as well as businesses and other entities they control.
(7) The Treasury was adamant last night that this would not be the impact at an industry level and produced figures that showed, for instance, in 2014-15, the corporation tax costs being £0.4bn, compared with a bank levy yield of £2.4bn.
(8) He echoed what Paul Dillinger, head of global product innovation at Levi Strauss, said earlier in the day when he challenged designers to rethink their design processes.
(9) The £180m a year scheme is to be paid for by a £10.50 levy on all home insurance, from homeowners who are not at elevated risk of flooding as well as those who are.
(10) Asked if the government security agencies would be inspecting the site, Levy said: “Yes, of course.
(11) The sugar tax was greeted with hostility by the industry and Wright argues that the levy, introduced by the chancellor in the budget , will be undermined by flawed analysis of its impact.
(12) Daniel Levy, the chairman, was, according to sources, incandescent and there is the firm belief at Tottenham that Chelsea did not truly want Willian.
(13) Levies exist in many European countries and Canada, and Ofcom highlighted them as one of four main ideas in its PSB review earlier this year.
(14) The chancellor, while prepared to listen to the banking industry, is determined to push through regulatory changes, such as the new bank levy.
(15) Miliband says he does not want union levy payers disenfranchised from the Labour party elections, but is happy to look at how the relationship could be reformed.
(16) The soft drinks industry levy was confirmed in the Queen’s speech, with the formal consultation expected to start soon.
(17) I can’t think of any reason to justify a 1.5% levy on businesses for childcare purposes.” The Australian Industry Group also called for a clarification that the levy was not going to be redirected.
(18) The penalties levied on Barclays are part of an international investigation involving a number of banks – including RBS and Lloyds Banking Group – into interest rates known as the London interbank offered rate (Libor) and the Euro interbank offered rate (Euribor).
(19) This year the total bonus pool since the 2008 crash will break through the £80bn barrier – around three and a half times the amount banks have paid in Corporation tax and the bank levy (pdf) .
(20) He added: "The levy has been designed to encourage less risky funding and complements the wider agenda to improve regulatory standards and enhance financial stability.
Traitor
Definition:
(n.) One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
(n.) Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer.
(a.) Traitorous.
(v. t.) To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Worst of all, it invites politicians to identify their opponents as traitors to the nation.
(2) It’s all they are interested in – identifying traitors.
(3) Was Boris Nemtsov killed because in Russia opposition activists are deemed traitors?
(4) The independent review was set up by Steve Williams, the new Police Federation chairman, who has been called a traitor and a dictator, and faced a no-confidence motion for trying to drive through a programme of reform of the organisation after he took up the role earlier this year.
(5) Evra had earlier railed against the "traitor" in the squad's midst, "who told the press what was said" at half-time against Mexico.
(6) We ought not treat a traitor like a martyr.” Responding to Cotton, a White House official said it was worth considering that the Republican supported the presidency of “someone who publicly praised WikiLeaks” and who “encouraged a foreign government to hack his opponent”, in reference to Trump.
(7) Photograph: Adharanand Finn On another wall by a playground, Jeff points out the faces of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, and painted between them the question: “Hero or traitor?” The relative freedom Bogotá’s street artists have become accustomed too, however, may be about to change.
(8) Another former colleague in the psychological operations unit, Fred Allen Lucas, said that Page called him a "race traitor" for dating Latina women and took to calling other races "dirt people".
(9) The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself.
(10) But as the night echoed with chants denouncing Taliban apologists as traitors,some in the crowd quietly admitted their doubts.
(11) It is hard to imagine a less traitorous motive for whistleblowing, or a more powerful public interest in what was revealed.
(12) Mohammad Javad Zarif, his foreign minister, was labelled a traitor and threatened with being buried in the concrete to be used to decommission the Arak nuclear reactor .
(13) On Sunday, appearing on the CBS talk show Face the Nation, former air force general and NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden called Snowden a traitor and accused him of treason.
(14) But Adam Holloway asked leftie David Winnick if he'd think Snowden a traitor if a British city was nuked by terrorists (duh?).
(15) Sessions denied what he called “very painful” claims at the time that he condemned the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as “un-American” and described a white civil rights attorney as a race traitor.
(16) When Murphy resumed his 100-town tour off Edinburgh’s Princes Street on Tuesday he was energetic and courteous, praising both sides for their patriotism: “No one in this debate is a traitor, no one is a quisling.” The remark was directed at angry, even threatening hecklers ( he posted the evidence on YouTube ) who had called Murphy both and forced him to suspend the tour temporarily.
(17) We didn’t want to make this journey but in Baghdad I worked as a translator for a British oil company and people saw me as a traitor.
(18) Inside the cavernous hall, Cameron kicked off with a joke that failed, tragically, to rise – he felt a "bit of a traitor", he said, because "here I am in a bakery, but the thing is, I went out the other day and bought myself my own breadmaker".
(19) He is a traitor because, by a cold-blooded and calculated act, he attacked your country by significantly damaging its capacity to defend itself from its enemies, and in doing so, he put your citizen’s lives at risk.
(20) Nobody knows if he defected or he's a traitor or he was kidnapped.