Here is a bravura interleaving of the micro with the macro: Anderson père conducts love affairs with different women and with Chinese culture, and keeps the civil-service banner as unstained as possible, all while eventually helping to administer subventions from the Japanese aggressor; in effect a servant of the British Crown, he stays in contact with Ireland and quietly supports the Sinn Fein and Home Rule cause. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It reports via Solana to the Council and relies for its existence of voluntary annual subventions from the member states. ❋ Richard (2006)
The subsidies which it granted were termed, inoffensively, "subventions," and its promoters protested that these "subventions" were "not in any opprobrious sense a subsidy or bounty." ❋ Edwin M. Bacon (N/A)
There's a good article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "Presses Seek Fiscal Relief in Subsidies for Authors": "Under this plan, all institutions would contribute to the pool, and give authors $5,000 to $10,000 in what are called 'subventions' that they could take to an academic press interested in publishing their book. ❋ Jenny Davidson (2004)
Français · Fidji: L'UE ne versera pas de subventions au secteur du sucre en 2009 ❋ Unknown (2009)
For decades Egyptian presidents—with huge American subventions—have operated many bakeries and subsidized others. ❋ Steven L. Kaplan (2011)
In addition to regular subventions, the government was forced to make emergency grants of 2.5 billion euros in 2009 to meet pension outlays, and could be looking at another 3.8 billion euros this year. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Of course, if you have a private trust fund and are married to an heiress to 3,000 acres of Lincolnshire plus 1,000 acres of prime land to the north of York and the taxpayer pays your mortgage and electricity bills in at least one of your country houses and you get any and all of the subventions you require from your City friends, why should you worry of this impost on "the little people." ❋ Unknown (2010)
And even after these industrial subventions there would have been plenty of change from £55 billion to set up a permanent endowment fund to finance Britain's universities, or build a new high-speed rail system covering much of Britain, or a new London airport in the Thames estuary to replace Heathrow or underwrite the entire economic risks of a new generation of nuclear power stations. ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)
Instead, low-wage employment subsidies, or subventions, by imparting a non-neutral bias to participation, quitting and hiring decisions, would serve to raise employment and pay rates. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Some opine that this would be a good thing for that which is left, for Scotland is palpably a drag on the rest of our economy and costs Englishmen dear, given the enormous subventions to which handout-junkie Scotland has become so addicted as it seeks to feather-bed its citizens without having to go through the pain of actually paying for all the goodies they get. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Many presses are now asking for subventions to publish photographs and reproductions and, while I have known several scholars who have included DVDs in books that use a musical archive, the fact that it is not widespread suggests to me that this is also an expensive option and not one that is workable for libraries. ❋ Tenured Radical (2009)
Arguing that the arts "always have been subsidized," she elides a lot of distinctions, such as those between state subventions and private patronage. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Moreover, Ciolos declared that subsidy requests for 2008 would drop in number because many small farmers associated to receive higher subventions while others were bought by larger farms. ❋ Unknown (2008)
BBSNP: In 2001 this was approximately US$6,976,000: 73.5% from the national budget directly and through provincial and district subventions, 26.5% from the Reforestation Fund. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It also provided free land, freedom from taxes, the use of oxen, and, moreover, loans, and sometimes even outright subventions. ❋ Unknown (2006)
