Once you have signed up, you pay money into the system by handing cash to an agent (usually a mobile operator's airtime vendor), who credits the money to your mobile-money account.

一旦注册，你将提交现金给一个代理商(常常是移动运营商售卖通话时间的小贩)，他会将现金记在你的手机账户上。

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When home owners pay their monthly payments, these are collected by the servicing agent and passed through to investors as interest payments on their bonds.

当房主付月供时，这些月供就由代理服务商收集起来，并将此作为债券的利息转给投资人。

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In cases there is no withholding agent, the taxpayer shall file a return and pay tax himself.

没有扣缴义务人的，由纳税义务人自行申报纳税。

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"We did not pay an agent when Benjani joined from Auxerre, and his transfer to Manchester City was approved at the time by the Premier League and the FA's compliance unit, " it said.

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In addition in some situations it will pay the agent to expend resources (bonding costs) to guarantee that he will not take certain actions which would harm the principal or to ensure that the principal will be compensated if he does take such actions.

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Even worse, Bonner says, starting pay for an agent is far less than what local police departments are paying.

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