A few months later, members of Congress voted a pay raise for themselves and the executive branch of government.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

You are asking for a raise,

你想要求加薪，

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It often has to be that the only way you can raise money for a business is through a bank.

这通常造成了,只能通过银行进行商业筹资

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She also began to raise money for her dream of a permanent, non-profit school for the higher education of women.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

And, by the way, if you ever feel that you are in a compromising position, someone is pressuring you for information, just raise your hand and ask to be reseated.

另外，如果你觉得你在一个折中的位置，有人强迫看你的信息，只需要举起手来要求调换座位。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Pink is commonly used by groups that try to raise money to search for a cure for the disease.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

It is wrong expectation to expect that getting into a certain place, getting a raise, finding our dream partner, is responsible for our happiness.

错误的期望认为进入某间公司，获得升职，找到理想的伴侣，就能让自己更快乐。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Two years later, an American group was formed to raise money to pay for a pedestal to support the statue.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Anyway, you can see that in this passage on page 722, Gadamer is describing the circularity of our reading, and he's describing it in a way that may raise certain concerns for us.

无论如何，大家可以在722页上看到，伽达默尔描述了我么阅读的循环，他描述这种循环的方式可能会引起我们的关注。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

A North Carolina lawyer named Phil Evans organized a group called the First Colony Foundation to raise money for this purpose.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Although, I think, I was pausing for a moment to raise that objection, it's not an objection that I think we should take all that seriously.

我停下来提出那个反驳,但我想这不是一个需要,我们认真对待的反驳

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

GAC,a cable television network for country music, broadcast a program May sixteenth to raise money for relief efforts.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

Here is Hobbes' rewriting of the Golden Rule in terms of these laws of nature but these raise a question for us ? as readers of Hobbes. Right? Don't they?

这里霍布斯从自然法的角度,重写的黄金法则,但是这给我们这些霍布斯的的读者们,带来了一个问题，对吧！不是吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

She made the announcement May sixth during a local television program to raise money for flood relief.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

Charity groups use walks, runs and other sporting events to raise money for a number of diseases.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Patrick Henry is most famous for a speech he gave in seventeen seventy-five to support his proposal to raise forces to defend the colony of Virginia against the British.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Grech is now married with two children. He started a legal battle against the Church in 2003 for which he said he would continue to raise awareness.

VOA: standard.2010.04.18

"Let the young people raise their voice for freedom, for a positive policy,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

Arthur Mingo was equally stunned, pinning his hopes on the 2016 games as a way for the United States to raise its profile in the international community.

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

In other words, we and others will be looking at ways to raise ferroportin in cancer cells, and that might be an important target for breast cancer treatment and eventually a treatment that can be used in patients."

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

John Silvia is the senior economist at Wells Fargo Bank: "Private payroll gains continue to be modest and I would say it does raise flags for those super optimists who were looking for a V-shaped recovery and thinking that we are going to go back to normal very quickly in the US.economy."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02