pensioning off

Example Sentences

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With this eloquent plea, Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel last year won over reluctant Congressmen to his plan for pensioning off India's princes.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I hesitate to suggest pensioning off a faithful servant, but you really ought to have a better watchdog."

From Secret Adversary by Christie, Agatha

I don't hear any of them speak of endowing a home for decrepit wash-ladies or pensioning off their aged grandmothers.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

The real reason which makes it absurd to think of preventing theft by pensioning off thieves is this, that there is no limit to the number of thieves.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Mr. Smithson made a calculation, and would have saved some hundreds a year by pensioning off these old servants. 

From My Lady Ludlow by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn