(1) As any pensioner knows, though, money can be tight - especially when rocketing prices are coupled with a derisory 75p-a-week rise in the basic state pension.

(2) Rather than languishing in rates paying derisory interest, these sums can be made to work hard for the business.

(3) Even when they go to jail, all they face are derisory sentences of one or two nights for failure to pay a u00d4u00f6u00bcu251cu2551250 fine.

(4) Yet while some banks and building societies offer attractive interest to encourage junior customers to see the benefit of saving, others pay them a derisory rate.

(5) The membership feel insulted by the derisory pay offer of four per cent for this year.

(6) Meanwhile, 300 members of middle management are demanding an improvement in what they term a derisory 1 per cent pay offer.

(7) We wanted to picket to raise awareness that we are not prepared to accept the derisory pay offer that has been imposed on us.

(8) Members of the Services Union are voting on strike action after receiving what they consider to be a derisory pay rise.

(9) Any money you do save will remain in accounts that pay derisory rates of interest.

(10) Last year we received a derisory four per cent increase in the fees paid by the council.

(11) Millions of savers have money in deposit accounts that pay derisory rates of interest.

(12) They said the pay package means accepting a derisory three-year 3.2 percent pay u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510riseu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb, and institutionalises low pay and divisions between health workers.

(13) The company's derisory offer of a 1 percent pay rise has been overwhelmingly rejected by the workforce, who are demanding a rise of 3 percent.

(14) They were simply saying: u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510Look at how it looks to us, with what we already think to be derisory , inadequate penalties.u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb

(15) The derisory pay offer was the last straw for workers.

(16) There has been a pattern of derisory pay offers in recent months tied to productivity increases and attacks on conditions, particularly pension rights.

(17) The bin workers had threatened a five-day strike next week after rejecting a 4 percent pay offer as derisory .

(18) U251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510The grant increase is derisory and an insult to the student body and their families,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb said Jordan.

(19) Many interest-bearing bank and savings accounts pay derisory interest of as little as 0.1% on deposits.

(20) What does irritate me - as a UK taxpayer who helps to subsidise farmers in this country - is the fact that anyone employed part-time in the farming industry should be forced to work for such derisory rates of pay.