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Sentence Examples On the other hand, my sister saved hard for years and was rewarded with windfall shares when her building society became a bank. The government will reap an economic windfall in time for the next general election, economists have predicted. The improved cash position also raises the possibility of higher windfall payments to policyholders. Obviously our membership structure is different to most other mutuals which means we can't pay out the windfall in cash. In so doing, they will reap windfall profits from a property redevelopment scheme. The State Government could bring forward the completion of the Indian Ocean Drive project if it receives a revenue windfall. In an effort to remain mutual, many building societies forced new account owners to waive their rights to any forthcoming windfall shares. The boom in financial services continues to provide a windfall for the country's top legal and accountancy firms. Overall, these are truly terrible transfers matched with no meaningful windfall material and sound like a 1950s transistor radio. Although uncommon, large blowdowns generated from inland hurricanes provide an opportunity to study the effects of catastrophic windfall. In this case he gets beer money teaching SCUBA diving and the odd windfall investigation, but nothing of much substance. Striding ahead of the rest has landed a Lancaster theatre with a huge cash windfall. Bowling enthusiasts in Castle Point were celebrating today after landing a lottery windfall. One oddity of the new system is the windfall it will bring unionized employers. Surely, if the technology is there, the government could use its windfall to give grants towards the cost. In our country there are people obsessed with windfall profits and fabulous wealth. We conducted an impromptu windfall apple hunt, nearly as much fun as an Easter Egg hunt, and went to feed the greedy beasts. But now there will be no putting a lid on what will be a huge clamour for a windfall from customers who have every right to it. In addition, however, your insurance company has announced its intention to demutualise and so you may also benefit from a windfall payment. The organization's board is expected to meet in the next few weeks to decide what to do with the windfall. Show More Sentences However, let us not get carried away by this success and be realistic and pragmatic with our oil windfall. The inequity of allowing windfall profits to be appropriated by private landholders can thus be demonstrated more clearly than in George's day. A struggling cricket club has been given a new lease of life following an unexpected cash windfall. But these were the one-off fruits of the disendowment of the Church, a windfall which was unrepeatable on the same scale. Brown also rejected calls to levy a windfall tax on the oil companies, which have announced significantly increased profits in the last month. The Green Party wants to levy a windfall tax on land when it is zoned for development. The windfall will see the creation of new classrooms and libraries to improve the learning environment for children. A windfall of a few grand would be very welcome, but now that we are all aware of the problem we are taking steps to sort everything out. Many who live here preach bitterly of its negative impacts, while developers lick their chops in anticipation of windfall profits. There are no golden handshakes, share options, windfall payments or company cars in this world. The Chancellor could also hint darkly at the possibility of a windfall tax on the oil companies. At a state government level, they have a windfall of stamp duty and land tax when there's a property boom. A massive lottery windfall has secured the future of one of Southampton's best-known and most historically important landmarks. Big business swallowed the windfall tax on utility profits to fund the New Deal and Brown's dawn raid on pension fund dividend income. It might have led to a windfall financial gain, but, at the very least, it was an opportunity to make video games. I rubbed the scratch cards in anticipation of an imminent windfall, and was confronted with a kaleidoscope of shamrocks, lucky horse shoes and four-leaf clovers. Back in May of this year, we reviewed the performance of various windfall shares received following the demutualisation of various building societies. The size of any windfall is crucial to borrowers who are deciding which way to vote because they will have to pay higher mortgage bills if the lender demutualises. In sum, the Finance Minister dipped into the PRSI fund, diverted a euro windfall due to the Central Bank and brought forward the deadline for company tax payments. The new windfall taxes, which follow an already-announced annual Ft200bn bank tax, will attract the most attention. Show More Sentences Mr. S was an artist who said he hoped to reap a windfall from the stronger market for contemporary art. Though it may seem a paltry sum, the cash was a windfall for Vietnam's 10 million poorest. The impecunious and previously reclusive government, anxious to make the most of a possible windfall, is likely to drive a hard bargain. I cannot permit a management plan that penalizes one party or gives a windfall benefit to another. Joan, who has worked at Blackburn Royal Infirmary since 1987 and on the children's surgical ward for the last nine years, said she was shocked but delighted by her windfall. Algeria has now come into a large windfall profit from the high oil revenues it is enjoying and is therefore in a position to rearm Polisario. Even if the client had no need for the insurance, he or she may feel uneasy about his or her death representing a windfall for others. Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, has used his windfall to expand social spending in politically clever, if economically incautious, ways. As the apples begin to ripen, orders go out that all the windfall apples and the main crop later on are to be reserved for the sole use of the pigs. Increasingly, these include hedge funds. Part of the expected windfall in 2006 stems from the wrathful weather last year. This support should also be determined by use or farm size in order to limit the windfall effects seen with land management contracts. Unfortunately, the strength of sterling against the dollar is partly dissipating the windfall gain. One old cod fisherman explains how he came to collect the squirming windfall left by each wave on the beach, for use as bait. The third point I want to stress is that we have not actually touched at all on these unearned windfall profits of the oil companies. His proposal, a windfall tax, was rejected by No 10 within half an hour of Sir John sitting down. In the present economic climate, only a windfall tax can raise enough revenue to protect those families from a cold winter. As well as the social argument for an energy windfall tax, there is a political reason why it is essential. This is important for newcomers, but mainly to lessen the windfall profits' that are so prominent in the electricity sector. The overall fiscal balance was boosted by windfall oil revenues, while the non-oil deficit remained large and rising. The economy then becomes a windfall economy that increasingly imports everything that it needs. Show More Sentences Member States reacted sensibly to the oil revenue windfall by boosting investment in the expansion of oil and gas output and refining capacity. If costs are over-estimated, for instance, a significant windfall would be bestowed upon cable operators. But this requires that windfall rents are productively used to create a more sustainable productive base and growth trajectory. Some were already rejoicing over this fortunate windfall, since they thought that these high prices would remain stable. For example, substitution may occur, with the private sector using the fiscal windfall to cut its own funding. Insurers are concerned that the benefit can become a windfall for the claimant if no actual services are provided. It would introduce a carbon tax and a windfall levy on development land. Without an interim monitoring mechanism carriers that grossly mistarget earnings could reap a windfall at the expense of ratepayers prior to the ordering of any refunds. A victory in the play-off final two years ago did salve some wounds, however, and the expected 400,000 windfall from Sky for the Newcastle game should heal a few more. If the bonds appreciated, should speculators pocket the windfall? Working in advertising during the dot-com windfall, he earned enough of a killing to take a year off. With some areas, the differences are stark in terms of where this windfall lands. Part of the site will be used for residential development and will provide the company with a windfall from property that would otherwise have been used unproductively. The scale of the sudden windfall has aroused suspicions that insurers had been busy in previous years squirreling away unnecessarily high reserves. I resolved to dig myself out of this mess and, following a hard-earned windfall and the sale of some shares, I cleared all of my debts in a very short time. Landholders faced a great loss, but for ordinary men and women it was a windfall. So while the Treasury pockets a preelection windfall, the taxpayer will still be paying for Royal Mail's PS12billion pension deficit. At that point, new Standard members were asked to sign a waiver ruling them out of any windfall should the company pursue a demutualisation. If you have not contributed your maximum in previous years, you have unused contribution room, which you may now use, particularly worth considering if you have come into an unexpected windfall. In this way, the windfall is related to their actual time and participation in the plan rather than being subject to the experience of a plan of which they are no longer a part. Show More Sentences Therefore, to those who are concerned about the windfall profits of oil companies, I would say perhaps we should be more concerned about the windfall profits of finance ministers or the tax man. Any windfall effects associated with a bear market are prohibited. The oil windfall offers it unhoped-for room for manoeuvre in this, but the political consensus remains one of great caution in using the oil revenues, especially given the future costs of funding Norway's ageing population. Similarly, if the florin weakens greatly, he could well reap a windfall at the expense of the London branch. While mining companies worldwide recorded windfall profits, the standard of living of people living in countries where these minerals were mined did not improve. What a windfall to a company seeking funding if it was successful. Therefore, weak central banks make high windfall profits or transitory profits and transfer a large part of these fictitious profits to the States, thus creating, for the States, a cost-free financing source. It's fabulous for us to get this windfall. The current windfall, dependent as it is on the strongest of safety nets and the policy-driven snap back from the brink, sits uneasily with that principle. Sitting on a rough bench in his moonshine bar in a banana grove, a tipsy Bernard Okumo says his wife used her windfall to bail him out of jail, where he was facing a murder charge. Speckled woods, a few small tortoiseshell and red admirals are coming in now, with the latter feeding off windfall apples. The equivalent of six years' harvest of timber is lying on the ground, that is, 50 million cubic metres of windfall or windbreak over 300 000 hectares. Despite the rapid economic growth of recent years, the government has not achieved a balanced budget, budgetary targets have been unambitious and windfall revenues mainly spent. The way in which oil revenues have been managed to date by the various countries of SubSaharan Africa has remained opaque and has often led to misappropriation of funds and a squandering of the windfall. A pounds 4 million windfall to reskill nuclear energy workers on Anglesey and in Gwynedd has been welcomed. Is this ignorant and sanitized speech truly a windfall for feminism? They wanted to reap one hundred per cent of the rents from the windfall, without those rents jeopardizing their current share of the equalization payments. Mr Matolcsy and Viktor Orbán, the prime minister, wanted to add to demand by instituting a flat tax, plugging the revenue gap with a windfall tax on banks. Our dogs will eat just about any fruit or vegetables and in the Autumn our dogs are always greeting me with a windfall apple in their mouths, which they chomp up with great enthusiasm. But really the set with its image of entangled tree roots and sackfuls of windfall apples was more gripping than the dialogue. Show More Sentences Politicians believe, probably correctly, that they will spend the windfall from licence fees and casino taxes more benevolently than gangsters would. And the banks, after reaping this ill-deserved windfall, are pleased to pronounce themselves solvent, ignoring the bad loans still on their books. The agenda will likely move to defense spending, energy windfall profit taxes and regulation, labor union formation, the education and health care systems, and capital gains tax rates among many other items. This latter measure is widely seen as a quid pro quo for Peru's decision not to follow jurisdictions such as Bolivia and Ecuador in reopening mining contracts or imposing windfall taxes. The specific suggestions about what to do with an unanticipated windfall are more germane to the no-deficit target case, where success in achieving the goal is determined annually. In fact, it looks as if it has had good management, but in fact it has been terrible management and it has blown away the windfall that was coming its way. Many eyes are riveted to the government to implement the right structural reforms so that the windfall benefits all the population and not just a few. In January, 1921, the most disastrous windfall experience of the region was felt in the Olympic Peninsula where altogether over 6 billion feet of timber were withthrown. It was the Lucky Dip though that brought them the wonderful windfall. The windfall was welcomed by Jenny Timms, from Kings Norton, whose life was transformed after Canine Partners teamed her up with 'blonde bombshell' assistance dog Bliss. Lisa Dougan landed her windfall on a lucky dip ticket, but only realised she had won when she checked the golden numbers three days after the draw. No-one has ever made a business case for us to demutualise, the only case for demutualising has been that they would get a windfall,' he told reporters. Fruits include windfall apples, pears, plums, blackberries, bilberries, raspberries, strawberries, acorns, beechmast, pignuts and wild arum corms. If that is agreed, then outgoers will not have a windfall to sell, and incomers will have something, albeit based on their predecessor's production. For if couples have joint life policies the insurer is giving the windfall share outs, averaging pounds 1,000, to the first named policyholder only. Examples from Classical Literature From out of a deep windfall a beady-eyed, thin-bellied fisher-cat came forth, and stopped with his feet in the crimson ribbon. To boot, there is the occasional windfall of an epidemic, with its panic and rush for revaccination. A company named Doyen Sports was the main beneficiary, collecting yet another eye-popping windfall. The water treatment was new, now, and Tom's low condition was a windfall to her. Osborne resold this inimitable windfall to Dr askew for sixty guineas. And in his box at the safe-deposit vault he came upon a windfall. I left him gloating over his windfall, and plunged into haberdashery. The man who gets a windfall spends his days watching the wind. I agreed to everything, and was only too delighted at such a windfall. It's like a windfall, like a godsend, like an unexpected piece of luck. M'Glashan's instinct told him that 'Lorrequer' was a windfall. Back and forth she patrolled along the edges of the windfall. George Osborne was also popping champagne corks after the Treasury celebrated an PS873million lottery windfall from the 12 per cent they cream off in duty. Find more words! 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