| 单词 | water-rate |
| 例句 | An acrimonious fight over a water-rate increase in Orange County will culminate Tuesday when voters decide whether to recall two of their local water district’s board members and whether to reelect a third. Fight over Yorba Linda water rates culminates in recall vote 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z A landlord group, the Rent Stabilization Association, recently sued the administration over water-rate increases that it deemed unjustified. For the Second Year, Rents in Some Stabilized Apartments in New York City Will Not Increase 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Users are particularly outraged by the water-rate adjustment factor approved this week by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners. Department of Water and Power takes rate proposal to social media 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Shall we find in it any unexpected and novel extras, such as knife-cleaning, proportion of the water-rate, loan of latch-key, &c.? Mr. Punch at the Seaside 2011-08-24T02:00:23.487Z They went in payment of the water-rate—so that your servants should be saved running up and down stairs; the water's not laid on here. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z The man called for the water-rate to-day; but I should like to know how people are to pay taxes who throw away five pounds to every fellow that asks them. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 If they cannot, why should we pay them a heavenly water-rate? Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) These paid; but many shrewd fellows put off the obsequious collectors, and contrived to live water-rate free. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852 We hear, however, that he intends to have another try when the water-rate is not quite so high. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920 I have already stated that municipal government is unknown; consequently there are no municipal rates to be paid, no water-rate, no poor-rate, and not a cent for either sanitation or education. China and the Chinese Anti-Ritualistic old Lady objected to paying her water-rate, when she was informed that she would be patronising "a High Service." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891 Here the sleek capitalist and there the sinewy laborer; here the man of science and here the shoe-back; here the poet and here the water-rate collector; here the cabinet minister and there the ballet-dancer. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow The Captain went through the brief ceremonial as coolly as if it had been the settlement of a water-rate, and was angered by the tears that poor Mary Anne shed under her cheap black veil. Birds of Prey "The water-rate perhaps," answered Hester, opening her own letter as she withdrew to read it. Weighed and Wanting "I was only going to take him away to wash his pretty face, sir, and smooth his hair," answered the woman, in the most insinuating tone in which she had spoken of the water-rate. Lady Audley's Secret Most of the houses in the quiet, respectable sort of streets average about twenty to twenty-five dollars per month, including everything but water-rate, which is three dollars per month. Canada for Gentlemen The man called for the water-rate to-day; but I should like to know how people are to pay taxes, who throw away five pounds to every fellow that asks them? Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures I dare say, if the truth was known, Billy's friend had once been a highly respectable party, and had paid his water-rate and income-tax like any other civilized being. Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green This work only requires money, and the inhabitants, without further assistance than loans secured by a water-rate upon the district, will rapidly develop the natural supply. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 Insolvent tenants openly defied the collector of the water-rate from their ten-roomed strongholds, and existed for weeks without any visible means of procuring that necessary fluid. Lady Audley's Secret I saw it was an application for the water-rate. Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green |
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