Those which had prescribed a higher rate of duty for the purpose of increasing their revenue were defeated in this object by the legislation of neighboring States admitting the same foreign articles at lower rates.
They demand a higher rate of compensation, and unless power is given to the Postmaster-General to accede to this demand I am well satisfied that these mails can not be forwarded.
Neither would there be danger that a higher rate of duty than that intended by Congress could be levied in the form of specific duties.
Henceforth he held an account with the bank in question, receiving a higher rate of interest, and a strengthened security for his money.
He felt confident, he said, that the country had no right to pay upon these investments a higher rate of interest than could be obtained from an investment in other securities.
If Government can still afford to pay the old Savings Banks the higher rate of interest, it might afford, at the lowest computation, to give ten shillings per cent.
St. Louis enjoys no lower rate than New York, although one thousand miles further east; and inland points in the Rocky mountain area may be one thousand miles further east than San Francisco and yet pay a higher rate.
It may even be less distant than Z and yet actually be charged a higher rate than Z.
But the commercial practice being to ship the finer grades of chinaware in boxes, such shipments are graded higher because the traffic will usually bear a higher rate.
Point X equally distant from Philadelphia with Z may pay a higher rate than Z.
So large a number of holidays produces a higher rate of wages or necessitates a low standard of life among the working classes.
These certificates will always be redeemable in the bonds stipulated for, and can, with profit, be issued, while the money received for them can be used in redeeming bonds bearing a higher rate of interest.
The lenders in such a case, however, run a greater risk than when the enterpriser is a man of some means, and they therefore ask a higher rate of interest than if they were loaning to a wealthy man or to a wealthy company.
The borrower expects either to make these particular goods earn rents larger than those on the basis of which they have been capitalized, or to transfer them to an economy where goods are capitalized at a higher rate than he is paying.
Money loaned in hazardous ventures must yield a higher rate of interest.
Mercantile firms like the Siegel Company, by paying a higher rate of interest upon deposits than savings banks, were able to obtain the savings of many small depositors.
The important question is: How far did the lender secure compensation for the diminished purchasing power of the money in which he was paid by contracting for a higher rate of interest?
Do you always charge a higher rate of discount for bills when you have a large amount of taxed notes outstanding?
Such institutions are savings banks in every sense of the word, but the strictly mutual feature is lacking in the specialising of part of the deposits and paying a higher rate of interest on these deposits.
As regards the journey from Italy to France, Can a higher rate of speed be permitted for the descent of the 429 feet in 3¾ miles than was allowed for the ascent?
The price of corn will not, for any long time, remain at a higher rate than is sufficient to cover with ordinary profit the cost of that portion of the general crop which is raised at greatest expense.
The more disagreeable employment will feel less the pressure of numbers, and will secure, other things being equal, a higher rate of remuneration in consequence.
But still, in the future as in the past, those depositors having funds that can be invested for considerable periods will seek a higher rate of interest than can be obtained from commercial banks.
It provides for the exchange of deposits for bonds bearing a higher rate of interest--a unique feature greatly simplifying for the small saver the process of buying bonds for more lasting investment.
It is desirable that depositors should be able easily to convert their savings-bank deposits over certain amounts into good bonds, bearing a higher rate of interest (after the method of the issue of postal savings bonds).
In the case of a number of papers a higher rate of postage became payable; but in the case of some of the expensive illustrated and scientific publications the new rate represented a considerable reduction.
We must move along the path to a higher rate of growth and full employment.
A great saving might be made, amounting to much more than half of the loss, by imposing upon magazines and periodicals a higher rate of postage.
Mr. Stirling conducts his traffic at a higher rate of speed, and certainly with equal punctuality, with his magnificent single 8 ft.
For deposits fixed for a year the rate offered varies, as a rule, from 4½ to 5 per cent, the newer creations generally favouring the higher rate.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "higher rate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
