Sentences with phrase «fund sets a precedent»

More important, however, is that the creation of the priority fund sets a precedent.

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The US viewed the new fund warily for fear of setting a precedent for future negotiations.

Environmental groups and legislators say the loan sets a «dangerous precedent» that could place future Clean Water Act funding in jeopardy and sent a letter to Cuomo and the E.F.C. demanding that they delay, or cancel, today's vote.

But the supportive housing plan de Blasio announced Wednesday forgoes state funding for the operating costs of those units — setting a potentially risky precedent for the city of New York.

That's basically turning the tap off — and it sets a very bad precedent for future budgets if we don't protect funding now.»

The way Director David Kidera resolves questions involving the cases could set precedents for what public bodies ultimately come under the agency's jurisdiction and how much the groups that are clearly under regulation can pay public officials or quasi-governmental employees using public funds.

Critics have warned that stripping money from a fund intended for infrastructure improvements like sewer repairs and river clean - up to build a bridge could set a national precedent if it is copied by lawmakers in other states.

This last concern appeared to scare off Germany's Secretary for Economic Cooperation and Development Gudrun Kopp, who in June 2011 told a German parliamentary commission that «a direct payment into a fund of this type would set a precedent that could ultimately prove very costly.»

The Obama Administration's Investing in Innovation program set an important precedent by using a tiered model to align the amount of funding a grantee received to the strength of the evidence to support its effectiveness and requiring that its work be subjected to independent evaluation.

Eligible schools can choose from a broad array of options, including dual language, STEM, visual and performing arts, Montessori, and career - themed pathways.115 Although implementation is just now under way, New York has set an important precedent in the use of state funds for economic integration purposes.

A pending Supreme Court appeal of this essential case may set a legal precedent that will drive the still broiling debate over longstanding funding inequalities between North Carolina's wealthy and impoverished counties.

The Court decided that public charter schools like ours are not «common schools,» as they are not overseen by an elected school board, and therefore can not receive public funding, basing their decision on a precedent set in 1909.

In a recent article by Nina Rees, President and CEO of the National Association of Public Charter Schools, shed light on a lawsuit in New York could set an important precedent for the education system and equitable funding.

Two years ago, the graduating class set a precedent by pulling in more than $ 4.8 million in scholarship funding.

Alice Walton has a track record for supporting art education for children: the precedent she set at Crystal Bridges inspired the local Walker Foundation to contribute a $ 10 million endowment to provide funding to local schools to cover costs for visits to the museum and learning sessions for students and teachers in the museum's high - tech interactive education studio.

Even seemingly worthy artists such as Christo & Jean - Claude, whose drawings set a precedent for ambitious installation artists, tactically sell sketches of larger works to fund other projects.

An important precedent in the public disclosure of sources of research funding and related research matters that is especially relevant to the matter under discussion was set by the Center for Astrophysics in 2009/2010.

It is our hope that building robust checks and balances into the state's climate finance architecture as it takes shape will set a precedent for good governance more generally, and eke out the corruption that has long made public funds mysteriously disappear.

Additional funds are needed now to usher in precedent - setting work in the area of climate and free speech, including an update to a Teacher's Manual that I produced.

... To lift climatology out of its backwater status...... To increase research funding for Academia...... To justify the de facto political empowerment of a sector of the scientific / academic elite, setting a precedent for the subsequent empowerment of other sectors of that elite.

All of the above could be funded by China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and / or the Asian Development Bank (ADB) alongside precedent - setting AIIB / ADB investments in the Trans - ASEAN Gas Pipeline (TAGP).

Whether this decision sets a precedent that will impact the funding market, or is just a unique decision that turns on its facts remains to be seen; either way, it confirms the pro-arbitration stance of the English courts.

In 2013, after several failed rounds of formal mediation, the Canadian and US Courts directed the allocation of the Lockbox Fund to be determined by way of a historic and precedent - setting joint trial before the two Courts.

Unfortunate perhaps, but to have allowed access to the «specific fund» would have set a precedent too high; at the end of the day the seller should maintain the right to pay the commission from any source, even if that means they also have the choice to NOT pay.