relief payment in a sentence

Examples

1. Accusations of corruption were made in Karandighi and Raiganj, with some storm victims claiming they received only part of their promised relief payments.
2. Biographer Stephen Henderson writes that Macdonald sympathized with the poor, but he worried that direct government relief payments would undermine their pride and self-respect.
3. That same year, the government sought to standardize locally administered poor relief payments by fixing them in line with the prices of essential goods.
4. The single largest relief payment, the equivalent of $ 400, 000, came from the People's Republic of China, then embroiled in the Sino-Soviet split.
5. Though the provinces provided relief payments for food, clothing, and shelter, additional medical costs were beyond the capacity of most of the provincial budgets.
6. The government stepped in Thursday to guarantee relief payments to thousands of nutmeg farmers in danger of not receiving their Christmas bonuses, officials said.
7. The president also declared all of drought-stricken Texas an agricultural disaster area, making farmers and ranchers there available for government relief payments and low-interest loans.
8. Last week, for instance, the county counsel didn't tell the board of an appellate court decision that could cost the county $ 136 million in back general relief payments.
9. After the council agreed to issue cash instead of vouchers but reduced the value of relief payments the Association organized a " voucher strike " to raise the payments.
10. The goal of the League was to organize jobless workers, advocate for higher relief payments for the unemployed, and help the unemployed resist employer calls to take striking workers'jobs.