| 词汇 | example_english_windfall |
| 释义 | Examples of windfallThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. On this transect, there is a disturbed forest from 420 m to 510 m probably resulting from ancient windfalls. A longitudinal study using data on windfalls. They should have encouraged savings, especially in the light of the huge windfalls that consumers were receiving from building societies and insurance companies following flotations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Windfalls have not been spent on consumption as in past years; they have also been used to reduce debt and for investments. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I go further and say that it is necessary to tax such windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have had certain windfalls which have helped me. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is the consideration attaching to the ownership of land; there are the windfalls which have come to be associated with the ownership of land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said that it was used for the purpose of asserting that fortuitous windfalls were a legitimate subject for taxation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the expression was used at all, was it not in connection with contradictions of any intention to tax windfalls? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of its recommendations—that, for future members, windfalls would be assigned to charity—has been followed by a number of societies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They may wish to counter some of the effects of de-mutualisation windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are also some building society flotation windfalls that will add to consumer purchasing power. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not suggesting that there was skullduggery, but local authorities may decide to use such windfalls in ways other than for allotments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not motivated by share options or by windfalls from stock market flotations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Finally, it is essential that we slow down the logging of standing wood, in order to give priority to the purchase of windfalls. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Secondly, clawback should be limited to genuine windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why are they not to be applied to all sorts of fortuitous windfalls? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot fund continuing revenue commitments with windfalls or one-off receipts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are windfalls and elms but now no one can buy them, for the sawmills are full. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The case of the taxation of windfalls is more remarkable, and less known. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no suggestion of profit or of fortuitous windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In every debate about demutualisation much is made in the media about the size of possible windfalls for policy holders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I disagree with him profoundly when he talks of the sale of such assets as windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are, however, receiving from the price structure of the sugar market today quite unexpected windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any organisation, whether public or private, needs to have continuity of assets as opposed to receiving windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a clear difference between windfalls going into the private hands of shareholders and windfalls going to the general public for the public good. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When one considers the overall need, it cannot be good planning to fail to address capital spending priorities overall but merely to allow untargeted windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With the prospect of further windfalls from the building societies, consumer spending is likely to remain strong. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The principle that these outcomes should not be seen as budgetary windfalls is to be welcomed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no mention of the things which are bound to happen in forestry, mostly windfalls and losses resulting from windblows. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are now beginning to realise what these windfalls really mean. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the second half of the 1980s, national newspaper publishers improved their profit and loss accounts through two windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are good windfalls in merchant banking and stockbroking. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not ignoring lottery wins and other windfalls during the assessed income period because we think people in such a position need pension credit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In reality, only a quarter of the windfalls appear to be being spent, while most are being saved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it is the "windfalls"of the utilities today, why are we to believe that it may not be the"windfalls" of other firms or individuals tomorrow? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have heard quite recently about builders who get "fortuitous windfalls," as they are called. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can see that a number of people would get unexpected windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He may look with some envy at these sudden windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the spending proportion of this year's windfalls is followed, between a quarter and a third of that money will be spent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I refer to the windfalls that will arise from the de-mutualisation of certain building societies and insurance societies during the second half of next year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Cars are bought by people who have windfalls or a lot of disposable income. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By this scheme we are to have large windfalls of £1,000 and £500. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Various assumptions have been made about what proportion of building society windfalls will be spent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of them are in the nature of deferred pay and legacies, and some of them are windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have already heard that, for personal investments of between nothing at all in one case, and £120,000 in another, those managers received windfalls of between £15 million and £33 million. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The receipts from national savings—and it is a wonderful figure—were £726,000,000, while the withdrawals were £613,000,000, leaving a net increase of only £113,000,000, although those windfalls of £291,000,000 had been received. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said if that was a real defence, how much more was the tax now levied on windfalls justified than in the case of the tax on coal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have, fortunately, had windfalls quite recently. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The talk of "windfalls" is rather confusing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My view is that the figure will probably be higher rather than lower because a substantial number of people will benefit from more than one of the windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are accepted as windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Windfalls may look perfectly all right; and, if they are picked up quickly, they may be just as good as the perfect apple, providing they are eaten quickly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we add together all those items, which are special so far as savers are concerned because they are windfalls, we reach a figure, distributed in cash to individuals, of £291,000,000. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Well, tree-shakings are not windfalls. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The discovery of diamonds shortly after the country's independence provided a fortunate economic windfall for the country. Wooden proudly claimed that these late in life windfalls allowed him to set up education accounts for all of his grandchildren. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Unlike the robustness function, the opportuneness function does not satisfice, it windfalls. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In addition to the standard full house prizes were windfalls, offering the chance to win more money. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Initial public offerings of stock for technology and other growth companies were in abundance and venture firms were reaping large windfalls. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Subsidies, windfalls, and the prospect of economic opportunity remove the immediacy of needing to conserve. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Employers seldom do this because it provides tremendous windfall benefits to plan participants. Windfalls vary per club, some clubs offering more windfalls during a session of bingo than others. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Small tree fall downs are good for forest regeneration, but large, severe windfalls may damage the entire forest structure and change its function. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. We ignore any windfall gain from the conversion. If the mistaken payment stayed with the defendant, it would be a windfall. If the return to capital is high, they save a large share of this windfall and the capital stock rises. The ability to relate subsidies to performance, thereby reducing windfall profits, is not the only advantage of using the tax system for this purpose. The competitive dynamic between regional states proved, first and foremost, to be a veritable windfall for locals. The intermediary's excess net receipts constitute a windfall dividend payment for his current shareholders, the initial generation-0 old consumers. Legislation providing for special taxes on windfall profits made during the war was also passed, although the taxes were not introduced but left hanging over the heads of successful entrepreneurs. The monopoly position that the ministry's support for an industrial project would produce provided for windfall prots that could not have been realized through market competition. When u is small, however, the high return on capital motivates unskilled agents to save a larger share of the windfall from low taxation and the income effect dominates. The discretion given to the court was to enable allowance to be made for questions of causation and also to avoid unjust results such as unwarranted windfalls for creditors. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Most argue that royalties may be too low, resulting in underpricing of the forest resource, reducing incentives for sustainable forest management, and generating windfall profits for concessionaires. We have extended the new deal, financed by the windfall levy on the privatised utilities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We introduced the windfall tax on the privatised utilities, the nature and scope of which was made clear at the time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What estimate he has made of the number of women who will benefit as a result of the windfall levy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What representations he has received from employees' representatives on his policy to spend the proceeds of the windfall tax on a welfare-to-work programme. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What assessment has he made of the damage that may be done by the windfall tax to the investment in combating leaks? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They look for a tax that makes a good speech on the right platform, and that is the sole origin of the windfall tax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After the windfall tax and advance corporation tax, that is a savings tax in yet another form, which will affect 600,000 pensioners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am particularly delighted with the windfall tax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Environmental disasters or windfalls beyond a certain time horizon are washed out of consideration by discounting. The aim of any new system should be to reduce profit windfalls without making a drastic reduction in the incentive effect of the current system. As it turned out, however, the combination of oil windfalls and big state-run developments proved particularly unfortunate. Teleological equality recommends levelling people down just because it seems to object to good-luck windfalls for some persons (even if these good-luck windfalls come at no cost to anyone else). Simply by releasing overly optimistic forward profit figures or by raising the possibility of a takeover, the executive can make a windfall gain. Payments above 15 per cent are likely to be seen as a windfall rather than as a reward for contribution. Most car traders have not stayed in business because of windfall gains. The case, however, proved a dry run for a successful strategy used later to secure another windfall. Captures have additionally provided a windfall of intelligence that can be used to continue the cycle of disruption. Stated differently, low labor tax rates are a windfall for young agents. In the present model, in contrast, there is no such a windfall if there is instantaneous adjustment of the discount. At the same time, however, there is a corresponding increase in windfall profits for enterprises with low conversion costs. They sign up to what they see as a windfall or bonus. Where the savings rate is high, a large proportion of windfall gains is passed on to subsequent generations whose expected gains are lower. They were allowed a modest, steady rate of return, but not windfall bonanza returns. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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