Retirement plans

Usage examples of pensions.

Sir Robert Peel opposed the motion, and moved a series of resolutions, declaring it advisable to make such provision as should enable the crown to continue all such pensions as had existed at the accession of the late king, or had been granted by him during his reign.

Before Jenny and Garp found an apartment, they lived in more than a dozen pensions all over Vienna.

Jenny and Garp found pensions that were clean and comfortable and friendly, but they were often seedy.

And there could be crazy people, or even criminals, hiding out in one of the pensions, but what would they have to do with the scheme of things?

He recalled the pensions he and Jenny had stayed in when they first arrived, over a year ago: the faded and unmatched wallpaper, the dusty bric-a-brac, the chipped china, the hinges crying for oil.

He was, he said, the last man to interfere with the private arrangements of the royal family, but the king had given pensions to two of his sisters at the expense of the unfortunate Leeward Islands, and why these islands were singled out for such a purpose he could not conceive.

California candidate for congress announced his platform as simply, No Pensions for the Immoral.

The job involved scrutinizing all the restaurants and hotels and pensions in Austriaevaluating them and giving them a rating according to A, B, C.

The improvident expenditure of the royal patrimony, the granting the crown land or pensions to unworthy persons, is a frequent ground of complaint.

Ministers agreed in thinking it far wiser to provide against abuses for the future, than to take away pensions already granted.

Rice touched upon the decrease in the amount of the pension list, and said he should be prepared to prove that the pensions granted by Earl Grey and Lord Melbourne had been awarded in strict conformity with a resolution of the house passed in February, 1834, which recommended the granting of pensions to such persons only as by their services to the crown, or the public, or by useful discoveries in science or art, had a just claim on the benevolence of the crown or the gratitude of the nation.

Grote proposed as an amendment the entire removal of the sum allotted to pensions from the civil list.

Rice proceeded to deny that politics had influenced ministers in their grant of pensions to literary and scientific men, as had been asserted by Mr.

He differed from him both as to tire policy of granting pensions at all, and in respect to the quarter in which the power of according them should be placed.

After a few words from the Duke of Wellington, who expressed his apprehensions that the bill did not contain a sufficient provision for pensions, the bill went through the committee, and was afterwards read a third time and passed without a division.