Example collocations logo

Grants in sentence

330 examples of Grants in a sentence

At the national level, congressional Republicans’ ill-fated attempt to repeal and replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) sought to shift more responsibility to the states through federal block grants.
First, we must encourage innovation by offering research grants to support small initiatives or large-scale projects (like campaigns to fight HIV, malaria, and maternal mortality).
And yet, owing to the projected increases in GNI, most lower-middle-income countries will no longer qualify for the grants and low- or zero-interest loans that are currently available.
This approach is designed to improve grants’ effectiveness and give countries the ability to strengthen their economic resilience with a better-educated workforce.
The institute also provides educational opportunities to Syrians through its Emergency Student Fund, which issues grants to ensure that students from Syria can continue their studies in the United States.
According to the common position’s provisions, before a member state grants an export license, it should consult with any member state that has previously denied a similar license.
It would indicate that there can be no true peace in Guatemala as long as the powerful are accommodated with grants of amnesty and forgetting is prized over truth and justice.
But this remains to be seen, and the US Constitution grants him extraordinary personal power as Commander-in-Chief, if he chooses to exercise it.
China, on the other hand, grants aid on a bilateral basis, and has typically targeted its funding toward infrastructure projects.
Governments and philanthropists could provide seed grants.
The Creating Sustainable Businesses program, a collaborative effort by the Finnish government, Nokia, and infoDev – a World Bank global partnership – has supported AkiraChix with grants in order to strengthen this model for other women-led business incubators and social hubs.
Although supporters’ expectations were high, so was their patience – a dynamic reinforced by the ANC’s liberation mythology and early successes in expanding housing, electricity, and social grants.
Indeed, while states account for the bulk of public spending on higher education, the federal government finances a big share of that spending via guaranteed loans and grants to students.
Indeed, the situation in Ukraine represents a tactical victory for Russia, with the fragile but enduring ceasefire – and accompanying legislation that grants Donetsk and Luhansk considerable political autonomy – allowing Russia to entrench the conflict near the EU’s border.
While the UK has world-renowned universities and a vibrant culture of research and development, it is impossible to predict whether the British government will make up for lost EU grants for startups.
Finally, a law grants immunity from prosecution to the five highest state officials, including, obviously, the Prime Minister.
To date, over $1 billion dollars in Global Environment Facility (GEF) grants, together with about $8 billion in co-financing, have been committed to programs related to climate change.
The Paris summit is likely to be a buttoned-down diplomatic battle among countries for grants to support their pledges to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
If the Bank provides grants to poor countries to help small peasant farmers gain access to improved inputs, then it will be possible for those countries to increase their food production in a short period of time.
Scientists who reviewed Folkman’s grants said that the new blood vessels were simply due to inflammation.
The negative feedback had practical consequences, inhibiting my ability not only to secure research grants, but also to find faculty positions (especially given the work’s interdisciplinary nature, which made it difficult to fit into a single university department).
Once again, the idea was met with great skepticism, and it was extremely difficult to obtain peer-reviewed government grants.
With no practical alternative that could transform such thinking, the international community must leave North Korea to fend for itself, while offering only one way out: if the North grants IAEA inspectors access to disable and destroy the country’s entire nuclear program – as was done in Iraq after the 1991 Persian Gulf War – diplomatic and economic benefits will flow.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, reconstruction programs introduced after floods in 2014 placed a high priority on housing grants for single mothers and channeled redevelopment funds to businesses with large women workforces.
The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development has given Egypt $2.5 billion – more than 50% in the form of grants – making Egypt its largest aid recipient.
We are speeding up grants and long-term, interest-free loans to the world’s 78 poorest countries, half of them in Africa.
Instead, the government has focused on increasing spending to meet its grand electoral promises, including a huge amount for new grants to households and farmers.
By creating research grants that do not expire as soon as an outbreak is under control, we would substantially increase our portfolio of solutions to manage the next epidemic better.
Development projects were funded through grants or cheap loans, and these have probably played at least some part in increasing the attractiveness of the Maghreb and the Mashraq to foreign investors.
In the period 1991-97, the European Union, and member states gave ECU 4.2 billion of which 1.8 billion was in grants.
Back