How To Use Furlough In A Sentence

  • It has also promised better treatment of sick soldiers, and has vowed to expand the programme of 15-day furloughs introduced last month - despite the failure of about 30 soldiers to catch their flights back to Iraq.
  • When the First World War began, Sautter requested a furlough from the World's Committee to work with French soldiers (he maintained close contact with the World's Committee during his absence). Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
  • Faculty are "furloughed," although the term carries new meaning, since teaching, research, and service responsibilities have not been reduced. The University Is Not a Factory : On the Crisis in the Humanities
  • A week of furlough and a week of vacation (I call it "furcation") are complete, and I'm diving back into work. Undefined
  • The youngest of four children born to a Jewish pawnbroker and his wife, Maxine Kumin studied history and literature at Radcliffe, where, in 1945, she met Victor Kumin, a Harvard graduate on furlough from the Army. The Art of Living
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  • Faculty are "furloughed," although the term carries new meaning, since teaching, research, and service responsibilities have not been reduced. The University Is Not a Factory : On the Crisis in the Humanities
  • Once, the term furlough conjured an image of a sailor on the town or a model prisoner rewarded with a visit home. CourierPostOnline.com - News
  • Even the furloughed convicts who boil down pine trees into turpentine in my vast forest have been receiving an extra pullet or two in their monthly rations.
  • Teachers will not lose their job until the end of the school year, but already adjunct professors have been dismissed from the university system and a furlough system is in the works for others. Matthew Yglesias » Krugman: Centrists Eliminated 600,000 Worth of Jobs From Stimulus Package
  • Alexander received a generous furlough of thirty days. He asked Stepanov for more time. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
  • I met two other people who are "furloughed" from their state jobs and since they're a couple their family has been hit with about a 25 percent cut in pay (and Arnold is threatening even more furlough days for state workers). Joseph A. Palermo: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Sticking It to "America's Best"
  • Joseph Cotten plays a soldier on furlough from a military hospital where he has been treated for wounds suffered in the South Pacific, and for what were then called neuropsychiatric issues. Archive 2007-12-01
  • For the same reason, reignition of production does not result in the immediate rehire of millions of furloughed workers. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Job Losses
  • The "tax cut for everyone making less than 250K" doesn't amount to a hill of beans if you are un-employed and have no income and for folks like me it doesn't cover the salary lost to furloughs (though furlough is better than the alternative). Senate Okays Guns In Parks
  • Awards for furloughing missionaries are usually full-tuition grants.
  • What about a furlough from the slammer on work release? Sound Politics: "Operator in crane wreck has history of drug abuse"
  • I had a 10-day furlough from Louisiana, and the trip home took three days each way.
  • Public sector workers have been "furloughed" and now Schwarzenegger and the Republicans want to swallow up the public pensions and bust the public employee unions. Joseph A. Palermo: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Tea Bagging California
  • Labels: city of aurora finances, furloughs, kane county board, spending cuts, unpaid holidays Archive 2009-04-01
  • I have just learned that Cousin George has got his furlough extended thirty days.
  • We regret to inform you that you are being furloughed indefinitely.
  • CPJ said an additional 18 journalists were free on short-term furloughs granted for the Iranian New Year and were expected to report back to prison. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
  • Then don't try to entice me to overlook my furlough.
  • This could mean a massive furlough of government workers.
  • Some soldiers went on furlough for two weeks.
  • The Navy furloughed him and never called him back to active duty.
  • During the 1957-58 academic year, Kelley was on furlough and returned to Southern as visiting professor of Old Testament.
  • The organization said on Tuesday another 18 journalists were free on short-term furloughs granted for the Iranian New Year and were expected to report back to prison. WCAX - Local News
  • We regret to inform you that you are being furloughed indefinitely.
  • I wrote about furloughs in July in advance of the first unpaid day, one reader's online comment called me a clueless "maroon" -- just like in the Bugs Bunny cartoons. HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
  • Troops are being sent there, and furloughed men are ordered there to "squelch" the affair. Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864,
  • A furlough is no kind of solution to the problems that Maryland and other cash-strapped states are facing. Matthew Yglesias » Guest Post: Furloughed at the University of Maryland
  • Under the Pearce-Kavanagh proposal, though, Crow says he would be forced to layoff at least 2,500 employees, require unpaid employee furloughs, increase tuition substantially, disestablish more academic departments, and close at least one campus. Dawn Teo: Napolitano Departs, AZ GOP Cannibalizes Education to Meet Budget Shortfall
  • The insubordinate ringleader is dismissed with 'yellow furlough,' yellow infamous thing they call cartouche jaune: but ten new ringleaders rise in his stead, and the yellow cartouche ceases to be thought disgraceful. The French Revolution
  • The organization said Tuesday that an additional 18 journalists were free on short-term furloughs granted for the Iranian New Year and were expected to report back to prison. PhillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
  • We went to France for a little furlough as Marty and Grant call it.
  • In 1980, a missionary couple from the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board was declared personae non gratae by the convention, and letters were sent to Richmond requesting that they not return from their furlough.
  • This could mean a massive furlough of government workers.
  • Dozens of journalists and bloggers are currently behind bars or free on short-term furloughs. Human Rights Watch: Iran: Child Hanged in Public as Ahmadinejad Prepares for his General Assembly Speech
  • To expect all of Waterbury's diverse public-employee unions to react the same way to the furlough request is Pollyannaism. News from www.rep-am.com
  • In October, he was allowed home on a two-week furlough - and refused to go back.
  • Republic Pictures hoped to make a movie with Gene Autry while he was on furlough from the Army Air Corps.
  • I'm on furlough at the moment with a busted knee (an old friend which has been with me for the better part of a decade), but intend to resume fencing as soon as I stop hurting.
  • We will be calling furloughed employees back to work as ongoing attrition reduces the active workforce. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • A proposal to furlough employees for four to five unpaid days over winter break has been dropped.
  • Jon Corzine asked unions in January to forgo a 3.5% raise and accept short-term furloughs for about 60,000 workers this year. Budget Gaps Pit States Versus Unions
  • In October Absalom convened the annual meeting of the newly formed North Kiangsu Presbyterian Mission, which assembled in Shanghai, and tabled a formal resolution urging him to go home at once on furlough to the United States. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
  • Joseph was home on furlough July through mid-September.
  • Missionaries interested in furloughing at the Havner House click here to submit an application.
  • Times described "furcation" as "going someplace while on furlough or combining paid vacation days with unpaid days," while it said "staycation" means "staying at home because you can't afford to travel during your days off. Latest News - UPI.com
  • Air Lines, the world's largest carrier, said it will recall furloughed attendants and hire an undetermined number of new workers as it adds flights. WN.com - Articles related to Investor group buys 95 percent stake in Mexicana to keep airline afloat
  • According to the Daily Herald, "in lieu of taking unpaid days off (furlough days), an employee may also choose to have the accumulated monetary value of the furlough days prorated on an annual basis, and then deducted in equal amounts over the 26 pay checks they receive during the year. City of Aurora Agrees to Retroactive Raises and Guarantees of No Layoffs in Exchange for 2 Weeks of Furloughs for AFSCME Local 3298
  • A second shutdown that began in December furloughed fewer workers, 280, 000, but lasted 21 days.
  • The only restrictions placed on officers granting furloughs limited leaves to no more than thirty days for 5 percent of the unit at one time.
  • Alexander received a generous furlough of thirty days. He asked Stepanov for more time. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
  • When Bernard was home on furlough in 1917, they met more than once.
  • An extended winter break shutdown is in the works (although a proposal to require involuntary furloughs has been dropped).
  • When the missionary is furloughing, the church assists with the spiritual nurture, care and physical needs of the missionary such as helping to locate housing while on furlough.
  • They know that every public dollar slashed and every public employee laid-off or "furloughed" in the nation's most economically important state is another obstacle to Obama getting the economy moving again and thereby maintaining his popularity. Joseph A. Palermo: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Tea Bagging California
  • The plant also instituted "rolling layoffs" that involved short-term furloughs of two weeks. News from www.pantagraph.com
  • It`s just so strange, that the government forgets to add those "without pay" words after they use the word furlough though, isn`t it? Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • Alexander received a generous furlough of thirty days. He asked Stepanov for more time. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
  • Honey, you have to keep in mind that his furlough will start when he leaves his ship, not when he gets to San Francisco.
  • The prisoner was furloughed for the weekend to visit her children
  • Even the previously sacrosanct "first responders" police and firefighters are being downsized, laid off, "furloughed," or forced out with early retirement. Joseph A. Palermo: There's No Good News for Democrats Because There's No Good News
  • States, taking a furlough from the grim Arctic battle. Chapter XII
  • A flunkey in mufti is as unseemly an object as a soldier on furlough, with his jacket unbuttoned and his neat stock replaced by a coloured neckerchief. Echoes of the Week
  • Harrison went home on furlough in 1864 to campaign against pro-Southern Democrats in Indiana.
  • Twelve years later, despite a life term without parole, Horton received a weekend furlough, during which he knifed, blinded, and gagged a man in Maryland, raped his fiancée, and stole their car. Deconstructing Obama
  • 280,000 federal workers have been furloughed.
  • Uncle Hugh and Auntie Jan went out to Africa as missionaries and used to visit my mother and our family when they were over on furlough.
  • He has never once been granted a furlough - even to attend his mother's funeral.
  • His occasional trips to England, on furlough or for training, were when he felt most out of water.
  • The haul truck driver furloughed with 600 fellow Steelworkers Feb. 13 from Freeport McMoRan's Chino mine in New Mexico, where they extracted copper and molybdenum, a steel hardener, offers this story: Leo W. Gerard: Build More Autos Overseas: Marginalize More U.S. Families
  • Granted a furlough in October, Wright returned home to his parents in Clayton County briefly before reporting back to the hospital on November 23.
  • She received a handful of furloughs, but never traveled farther than back to her home in Alabama until her discharge, which took place at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
  • Never fear, there was a Makarram Khan,13 until I shot him on my last furlough; he will give thee a shabash* (* Hurrah, bravo.) from hell, for he was a stout rider in his time. Fiancée
  • In the past year or two, major carriers have been recalling furloughed pilots as well, creating rapid turnover at regional airlines. Airlines Lower Bar

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