7 sentences with 'wage'
Example sentences and phrases with the word wage and other words derived from it.
• « The new minimum wage was to be applied to the eight-hour workday, which would be achieved by replacing the existing two nine-hour shifts with a continuous rotation of eight-hour shifts. In this way, the company would obtain higher production, and the workers would work fewer hours. »
• « The Sassanids in Persia were far more aggressive and better organised than the previous Parthian dynasty had been, and Rome was forced to wage almost constant warfare to contain the Persian threat. »
• « Rome and Persia did not wage war constantly, but when they did Persia was forced to devote enormous resources to containing Roman rapacity (the buffer state of Armenia changed hands a bewildering number of times in the process). »
• « In turn, the problem for royal authority was that many kings had "vassals" who had more land, wealth and power than they did; it was quite possible, even easy, for powerful nobles to wage war against their king if they wished. »
• « Indeed, the significance of the Second Crusade is that the Crusaders began to wage an almost incessant war against the Cordovan Caliphate in Spain - in a sense, Christian Europeans, particularly the inhabitants of the Christian kingdoms of northern Spain, came to the conclusion that there were many infidels much closer to home than Jerusalem and its environs. »
• « Laws prohibiting wage differentials based solely on sex were not established in the late 19th century at the earliest, and were rarely enforced even then). »
• « The other two regional powers, Iran and Saudi Arabia, wage a proxy war in Yemen and fund rival paramilitary groups (often considered terrorists) throughout the region. »