Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.    From LearnThat.org.  [Cathy Guisewite]

Verb (used with object) : to wage war against a nation.    From Dictionary.com. 

As to the argument far above (and unrelated to most of this thread) that the gender gap in wages is just five percent, well, that’s rubbish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture”] Reference

Guaranteeing longer-term wages for the soldiers may be difficult.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

Labor takes its share in wages; capital takes it share in profits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Class Struggle] Reference

Labor takes its share in wages; capital takes its share in profits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Class Struggle] Reference

This 23 percent gap in wages represented no change from the prior year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fatima Goss Graves: Paycheck Fairness Act: More Than Pocket Change Is at Stake] Reference

He denied himself the liberty he had of taking wages from the churches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference

Then labor has received in wages, during the same period, two billion dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9: The Mathematics of a Dream] Reference

He should recognize that rises in wages should be related to rises in productivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [What We Are Doing and What You Can Do About Employment] Reference

The rise in wages and salaries at the top of the income distribution was 617 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Height of Inequality] Reference

Why union workers sometimes choose to lose their jobs rather than accept cuts in wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voting for Unemployment] Reference

Capital takes fifty dollars as its share, and labor gets in wages fifty dollars as its share.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9: The Mathematics of a Dream] Reference

While some unions have made concessions in wages because of the weak economy, others have not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voting for Unemployment] Reference

It's my understanding that the settlement was for a 16-percent increase in wages over two years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sustaining a Canadian Health System] Reference

Chinese producers of western must-haves such as the iPad and iPhone receive a 66% increase in wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foxconn pay rises help lift wages in China - and that can only be good] Reference

Another pensioner was discovered by the Danish press to be earning wages from the Kurdish parliament.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denmark's Immigrants Offered Money to Leave Country] Reference

The Chinks hod forty-five pounds each comun 'tull them in wages, an' I was no a-thunkun 'they' ud run.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sea Farmer] Reference

The washing runs away with all the difference in wages, and their consumption of victual is much the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

Working in Mexico for wages is difficult since there are many hard working Mexicans also looking for work.    From Wordnik.com.  [wow! I finally found you all!] Reference

You supervise two other stocking clerks, you get a fancy title -- but no raise in wages, and no overtime pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walmart in Patzcuaro?] Reference

We shall see some readjustment in wages in the next two years, as we always have during a major business depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlook for 1931] Reference

Usually, discrimination is interpreted as meaning a disparity in wages and salaries paid for similar jobs or workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Distribution of Income in Canada] Reference

The dissatisfaction resulting from falling wages is usually greater than the satisfaction resulting from rising wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaken and Stirred] Reference

But the activists were back again, this time demanding fair wages from a government that they said was too controlling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planting the Seeds of Democracy] Reference

In other words, it builds up its low-wages with other factors which would be included in wages in other parts of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Five Year Plan—Russia's Challenge to Capitalism] Reference

The minor drop in wages during and immediately following the depression will be more than offset by declining living costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outlook for 1931] Reference

And out of that we paid in wages over 15 million dollars. 62 cents out of every dollar collected on our System goes into wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rapid Transit For Toronto] Reference

The differential in wages may seem to be a staggering increase to ask for but only if you apply the cost to the Canadian -- market.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canada-U.S. Automotive Products Agreement] Reference

Health carries on agriculture, stock raising and dairying for local use, and employment at fair wages is furnished to all who wish to work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lepers of Molokai] Reference

That company couldn't have paid a five per cent increase in wages without increasing the price of its goods or going broke -- one or the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Lies Ahead] Reference

However, the process of development inevitably leads to an increase in wages as the successful countries absorb more and more hitherto under-utilized labour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada in a Fragile World] Reference

You couldn't determine your incomes; there was an Incomes Commission to determine what was the norm for increase in wages, regardless of the performance of the company.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New World Order] Reference

As a result, the impression is created that improvement in wages, working conditions and benefit plans are brought about year by year only as a result of union pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials for Labour Peace] Reference

We are very conscious of our strike position, which receives so much publicity and probably derives from the fact that the whole plateau of British wages is fundamentally too low.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strength and Strains of the British Economy] Reference