Variable costs are positive additions to the total outlayspreviously incurred by a railroad, and they result from adding a definite amount to its previous traffic.
A surplus above these outlays could always be temporarily secured wherever a special economy had been effected, and the source of legitimate profit would be open to carriers as it is to producers generally.
The railroad approaches the condition of the full ships referred to, in which further cargoes require further ships, with all the outlays which this implies.
Employers are engaged in a race with each other in reducing the outlays involved in producing goods, and a common way of doing this is to devise machinery that will do what laborers have heretofore done.
The mode of reckoning costs might then become simple--a pro rata division of total outlays among all parts of the business.
Returns from different outlays are equalized, and a dollar invested in one kind of business then yields as much in a year as a dollar in any other.
Ships, tools, and supplies called for huge outlaysof money.
The twenty-five thousand men put in the field by the colonies were sustained only by hugeoutlays of money.
But, considering how little the average value of the fishing exceeds the actual outlays of the year, it is not surprising that this great fishing should be carried on under a mass of debt, spread over fully two-thirds of the fleet.
If the fish could be sent off fresh to the market whenever the men came on shore with them, and we had no more outlaysupon them, then there might be a profit; but, as things are now, we must lay in heavy stocks for the incoming year.
The kindred and friends of prisoners were frequently people of means and there could be no hesitation in outlays to circumvent the cruel rules which forbade to them and to the captives all knowledge of each other's fate.
This continued to the end and its correspondence is filled with instructions as to petty outlays of all kinds, and largely with regard to repairs of the houses and other properties belonging to the Inquisition.
The parent's legal claim to the services of his children, while minors, is a slight boon for the care and toil of their rearing, to say nothing of outlays for support and education.
Look at the hourly lavish outlays of money to procure a momentary gratification for those passions and appetites.
The parent's legal claim to the child's services, while a minor, is a slight return for the care and toil of his rearing, to say nothing of outlays for support and education.
The parent's legal claim to the child's services, is a slight return for the care and toil of his rearing, exclusively of outlays for support and education.
Rates horizontally increased, to meet increased wage outlays during the war inflation, are not easily reduced.
In the Budget for the year ahead only over-all estimates are included at this time for the major war agencies and for net outlays of Government corporations.
While the current deficit lasts, ways will be found to ease our dollar outlays abroad without placing the full burden on the families of men whom we have asked to serve our Flag overseas.
Each of these additional outlays is being made necessary by the surging growth of America.
Outlays of the Department of Agriculture for the current fiscal year for the support of farm prices on a very few farm products will exceed five billion dollars.
These "other activities" include more than 2 billion dollars for aids to agriculture and net outlays for the Commodity Credit Corporation-almost double the expenditures for the same purposes in prewar years.
These contracts must assure the return of all Government outlays upon the project.
It will require large outlays of money which should be raised through normal investment channels.
Even so, the level of outlays for fiscal year 1976 is still much, much too high.
In order to consider the means by which money is to be raised to meet the outlays sanctioned by the Committee of Supply, the House resolves itself into Committee of the Whole, under the name of the Committee of Ways and Means.
Germany's ageing population, combined with high unemployment, has pushed social security outlays to a level exceeding contributions from workers.
And these outlays are so important in industry and commerce that the impression comes easily to prevail that all business undertaking, and then all consumption of finished goods, fall under the simple hedonistic type.
It is obvious that these outlays are a constant burden but slightly influenced by the variation in traffic.
Under the first, Maintenance of Way, are segregated those outlays which have to do with the up-keep of the roadway and permanent structures in proper shape for the moving of trains.
Having at the outset deducted approximately one-quarter of our total expenditures to meet fixed charges, we may now proceed to analyze those outlays which remain.
Such outlays were formerly grouped in the main under conducting transportation, but, as is quite evident, they are distinct in their nature from the expenses incidental to the actual handling of trains.
Germany's aging population, combined with high unemployment, has pushed social security outlays to a level exceeding contributions from workers.
For about a decade, Saudi Arabia's domestic and international outlays have outstripped its income, and the government has cut its foreign assistance and is beginning to rein in domestic programs.
The leadership insisted on maintaining its high level of military outlays from a shrinking economic pie.
At Angers, "independent of presents and candles, which annually consume 2,172 livres, the public pence are employed and wasted in clandestine outlays according to the fancy of the municipal officers.
The outlays and salaries of the ministers are similar.
At the same time the proportion of outlays for social and cultural purposes declined from an average of 24.
Increases in national income have been accompanied by increased outlays for social and cultural programs.
Net farm output increased much more slowly because the cost of material outlays per unit of output was steadily rising.
The growth in budget outlays has been more the result of economic factors than the cause of them.
From two-thirds to three-quarters of central government outlaysare for war in the past and preparation for war in the future.
Socialism in such a genial form appealed not only to the masses but also to bushi who had pledged their property as security for loans to meet warlike outlays or the demands of luxurious extravagance.
A small fraction of these outlays was defrayed with ready money, but the great part took the form of public loan-bonds.
What sum these outlays aggregated no attempt has been made to calculate accurately, but the figure must have been immense.
He had escaped the heavy outlays to which his fellow barons were condemned in connexion with the Korean campaign, since his share in the affair did not extend beyond collecting a force in the province of Hizen.
The outlaysthat he was obliged to make were enormous and perpetual.
Such a husband destroys the amiability of his wife, renders her weak and nervous, converts her into an invalid, and imposes upon himself large financial outlays for medical advice and attendance.
After making all allowances for these difficulties we may proceed to state some of the facts as to the actual outlays of various countries.
Appeals had to be made to the patriotism of exhibitors to induce them to incuroutlays promising no immediate return.
It will suffice while it lasts, but it can not last long while the outlays of the Government are greater than its receipts, as has been the case during the past two years.
They were the work of his own hands, and so he saved the expense of their construction; but there were many little outlays for materials and for tools, which he could not avoid, and with him a little was all.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outlays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
