But, touching this matter of investments, it was suggested at the anniversary dinner, on the high and kind authority of Sir Benjamin Phillips that we might grant more pensions and invest less money.
The pensions granted are all obtained from the interest on the funded capital, and, therefore, the Institution is literally as safe as the Bank.
It cannot safely, and therefore it cannot honourably, grant more pensions to deserving applicants until it grows richer, and it cannot grow rich enough for its laudable purpose by its own unaided self.
However, so amiable is our nature, that we profess our desire to grant more pensions and to invest more money too.
We urged, on the other hand, that we wished our pensions to be certain and unchangeable-- which of course they must be if they are always paid out of our Government interest and never out of our capital.
Travelling along the Atlantic coast last summer, I inquired in many local post-offices as to the amount of pensions given weekly in those little grey villages.
Old-age Pensions have fallen on Ireland as a shower of gold.
The men and women who are receiving those pensions are the veterans of the famine period, and England has a special obligation towards them.
The Home Rule Bill of 1912 provides that these old age pensions should be kept for the moment as an Imperial charge.
The Old Age Pensions Act removed from the shoulders of working-class families what was to many an intolerable burden.
The remainder are those who under the law receivepensions because of relationship to Revolutionary soldiers.
He had formed large schemes which he did not mean to part with, and in the matter of pensions Francis I.
He must instantly be paid the arrears of his pensions out of the revenues of the sees of Palencia and Badajoz.
Foreign princes, as we have seen, were eager to pile pensions upon him.
He had himself refused a large pension which the French Government had offered him, and he intended at the next Parliament to introduce a Bill prohibiting English Ministers from taking pensions from foreign princes on pain of death.
The Department has entered into the lives of the people with its lines of communication, its savings bank, money orders, payment of pensions and sale of quinine.
The pensions were given without consultation with Parliament--1200L.
The notes so issued, shall be applied to pay the pensions of aged persons, and the compensations to persons arriving at twenty-one years of age.
Civil List have fled away, and sent the Attorney-General to deny the challenge, by turning the acceptance of it into an attack, and defending their Places and Pensions by a prosecution.
Are they afraid that sinecure places and pensions should be abolished too fast?
It was one of the duties of Mr. Hunter to distribute the pensions of all retired Government servants.
In this connection Mr. Hunter used to come in contact with a number of very old men in the station who attended his office to receive their pensions from him.
Ultimately the distribution of pensionsby way of out-door relief, corrupting a far more independent people, is calculated to work a far greater injury than the annona civica.
I give many pensions and alms, that is to say, I do good to several families; the good that I bestow about me will be more agreeable to God than any harm I could do myself, and that I maintain.
As all the pensions granted by the Queen-mother had ceased at her demise, the pensioners began to solicit the ministers anew, and all the petitions, as is customary, were sent direct to the King.
Pensions were paid to one John Elyote and William Tyler, M.
It emanated with singular appropriateness from Lloyd-George, the father of the German-imported system of old age pensions and workmen's insurance introduced six years previous.
In France, for example, that thrifty and individualistic folk made a complete failure of the attempt to foist contributory old-age pensions upon them, and I doubt whether such sumptuary legislation can succeed with us.
But the legates flattered themselves they might retain several of them by gaining Zuinglius, as they gained Erasmus, with pensions and honours.
In cases where members of the court fell into decay, they received pensions during the court's pleasure.
This figure includes 55 million dollars of increased pensions for student-veterans in our vocational rehabilitation program.
Veterans' pensions and benefits" has become one of the largest single categories in the Federal Budget.
The widespread movement to provide pensions in private industry dramatizes the need for improvements in the public insurance system.
And finally, sufficient pensions for disabled members of the armed forces.
Congress has provided financial security by offering life pensions at full pay for federal judges on all courts who are willing to retire at seventy.
There is nothing in our present emergency to justify a breaking down of old age pensions or of unemployment insurance.
The plan of making them poets-laureate, or converting them to loyalty by pensions of 100 pounds per annum, had not then been thought of.
Both Mr. C-'s sisters enjoy pensions more than sufficient to place the two greatest dignitaries of the Irish Catholic Church entirely at the disposal of the Crown.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.
And they do oppress, in spite of their seeming concern for the welfare of the labouring people, for an eight-hour day, for the prohibition to employ children and women, for pensions and rewards.
Learned Men who received Pensions from the Earles of Pembroke.
Adequate pensions would have other beneficial results.
The great difference between the pay, rations, and pensions of soldiers and sailors, is not generally known.
Of these latter, the most legitimate and desirable are pensions and promotion.
A great many poor men's sons also got little pensionsas titles, and then took chantry priest's places.
Old Age Pensions completely turned the beam and left us in the position of costing more than we contributed.
Old Age Pensionshad been popular, but had not been a fighting issue.
Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.
In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pensions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
