Sentences with phrase «giving public monies»

They believe that giving public monies to political candidates and legislative campaign committees is a violation of the state's constitution.

At the end of the day, Silver was convicted (in one of the schemes) of giving public money to cancer research.

The pol argued a vote along WFP line would be a vote for raising the minimum wage, creating more affordable housing and passing the Dream Act, which would give public money to pay for the college tuition of undocumented immigrants.

Not exact matches

The trend isn't surprising, «given how much everyone complains about the burden of being a public company and how much money is swirling around the private equity landscape,» according to Bulger Partners managing director Doug Melsheimer.

The @washingtonpost loses money (a deduction) and gives owner @JeffBezos power to screw public on low taxation of @Amazon!

And then there's the question of how a not - for - profit foundation like Mozilla can even consider these kinds of commercial deals, given the higher public disclosure requirements for nonprofits, not to mention the restrictions on money - making activities that accompany the favorable tax status.

Here is the recording of the presentation I gave at the Modern Money and Public Purpose seminar recently.

Trump's denial was the first time he's made a public statement about the money given to Daniels ahead of the 2016 election to keep her silent about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump.

Today one of the president's new lawyers, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, told Fox News that Trump in fact re-paid his lawyer Michael Cohen the money he gave to Stormy Daniels to stop her going public about her alleged affair with the president.

And it notes the European Central Bank's (ECB) report «Virtual Currency Schemes» (October 2012) worrying that «virtual currency schemes -LSB-...] could represent a challenge for public authorities, given the legal uncertainty surrounding these schemes, as they can be used by criminals, fraudsters and money launderers to perform their illegal activities.»

The theory is that giving public guarantees and bailouts will enable financial managers to use some of the money to fund some projects that employ people — with newly created, non-unionized companies, presumably.

And Socrates» paradoxical statement in Plato's Apology that «not out of money does virtue arise, but out of virtue money and all other goods for human beings, both private and public» - a passage that has given modern scholars fits for generations - underscores the self - sufficiency of the virtuous individual.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

The point is is that it IS wrong to force someone not to talk about their god, but that it is ALSO wrong to take money from someone who doesn't believe in that god by force (e.g., taxation) and then turn around and give that money to someone who does to promote their views about that religion (such as funding a memorial with public funds).

That's exactly what's at the heart of this — that the use of public funds (e.g., tax dollars) should NOT be used to promote (e.g., force down the throat of others) any particular religion or religious belief or practice — that money shouldn't be taken by non-Christians by force (via taxation) and then given to Christians to put up displays of Christian religious symbolism.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

Jesus said «Give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's,» speaking precisely about PUBLIC MONEY.

He urged charities to steer clear of political campaigning, arguing that is not what the public gives them money for.

Do NOT let this become a decision stating public money can be used for churches, synagogues, mosques, burkhas, prayer mats, Qurans, Books of Mormon, or that picture of Jesus grinning and giving a thumbs - up.

There's only one given: Any amount of money spent on such an ill - advised campaign would be 100 percent waste to the public, yet hugely profitable for big pharmaceutical companies.

In other scenarios you're correct that there is so much public money taking one team that books are forced to move their number, which gives added value to the other side.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

Given the magnitude of tonight's game and the influx of public money, sportsbooks will take a massive loss if Cleveland pulls off the upset.

This gives us a more complete overview of the sports betting marketplace and allows us to more easily separate sharp money from square / public money.

It also gives square bettors more time to place their bets, which typically leads to an influx of public money and additional value betting against the public.

That said it's extremely rare to see this level of public money taking the under — especially given the tendency of casual bettors to hammer the over.

You can give a lot of money into public schools and still have lousy schools.

This book is being released in early February, however if you pre-order, you will be given a $ 27 gift card for DonorsChoose.org, the online charity that helps public school teachers raise money to fund classroom projects.

U.S. education spending tops global list, study shows is an example of a source talking about the combination of public and private money, although it doesn't give a total nor define «student».

From the birth of the record album until the 1990s, the business of popular music revolved around scarcity: albums (and 8 - tracks, cassettes and cds) cost money to record, produce and distribute, so only a limited number of them could reach the public at a given time (before that, if people wanted music, they made it themselves).

The opposition isn't simply to spending money on art and culture and news, it is to spending public funds on liberal art and culture and news, and there is something to that given the track record of how the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which sends some money to PBS and National Public Radio, have chosen to use their public funds on liberal art and culture and news, and there is something to that given the track record of how the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which sends some money to PBS and National Public Radio, have chosen to use their Public Broadcasting, which sends some money to PBS and National Public Radio, have chosen to use their Public Radio, have chosen to use their funds.

To ensure irreversibility, we are implementing the following measures to tackle some of the long - term structural issues: a. capping of the statutory funds at 25 percent of government tax revenues b. operationalization of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) to consolidate all government funds at the Bank of Ghana c. tightening of expenditure controls in GIFMIS to minimize inefficiencies and budget overruns d. strict enforcement of the PFM Act, as well as the Public Procurement Act, to ensure efficiency in public procurement, and e. adoption of the competitive tender process, which is eliminating wastage and giving Ghanaian taxpayers real value for their Public Procurement Act, to ensure efficiency in public procurement, and e. adoption of the competitive tender process, which is eliminating wastage and giving Ghanaian taxpayers real value for their public procurement, and e. adoption of the competitive tender process, which is eliminating wastage and giving Ghanaian taxpayers real value for their money.

«The public money that was expended was public money that was going to go somewhere and I'm proud that I was able to influence and balance where it went... I would do those things again in terms of the dollars that we all gave all over the place.»

Their rags - to - riches stories give them credibility in connecting with impoverished voters and in claiming to not need to steal any public money because they are already wealthy.

Then there was the most recent stick in the eye: forcing on Dinapoli a pilot public financing program — only for his race — that would make the comptroller give back more than two - thirds of his campaign money or suffer a P.R. hit.

One is an education tax credit that would give donors a tax break for funding scholarships to allow poor children to attend private schools, and also for money given to extra curricular programs at public schools.

Meanwhile the supermarket chains have given far less, opting to use their money for a PR campaign to convince officials and the public of the benefits of the idea.

To help keep them afloat, # 22m of public money has been given to them to this year, while another # 277m will be injected over the next four years — figures that only emerged after Private Eye trawled through the obscure Official Journal of the European Union, which requires publication of such payments by member states.

«Because the fare does not nearly cover the cost of delivering the service, if you leave it flat you're just asking the public to give you the money elsewhere,» said Vitiello, who believes that, even if the agency does find a new revenue stream, it would likely still need the anticipated fare increase.

The Democrats have said they plan to give the money to the Child Care Council because vital public services like child care suffered because of the scandal.

Gov. David Paterson and legislators quietly borrowed state money in 2010 to give to their favorite baseball clubs, veterans halls, museums and even a racetrack casino at the same time they were cutting jobs and support for schools, health care and other basic public services.

A public accounts committee report into asylum housing found the contracts given to Serco and G4S to provide it had saved little money, failed to improve the service and in fact made it considerable more insecure.

Companies will be encouraged to apply for up to # 250 million of public money to participate in a new»em ployer ownership» pilot, giving them more influence over how apprenticeship education is carried out.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said his campaign has donated some of the money given by Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood movie mogul under fire for a cascade of public accusations of sexual assault and harassment.

Taking the railway back into public ownership would take money from the poor and give it to the better off.

The move, agreed with leaders of the region's 10 councils, will give local politicians greater control over billions of pounds of public money,

People don't give money to politicians unless they expect much more in return, usually from the public treasury.

Both Jepsen and Westby are planning on using the state's public campaign finance system, which would give each more than $ 812,000 in taxpayer money to spend on this election.

Unfortunately freedom of speech is contingent to how much money you have given that the media is itself a business that has to make profits as well, so a «lobbyist» like this comes to this program without any ethics, without any remorse but with a lot of money as well to openly acknowledge that: yes, we put money in this governor's elections, we are expecting he pay us back and will stand on our side of the equation, and yes, we have collected (very fast) the private necessary money to run a public relations campaign (of lies if necessary) to guarantee that our privileges are well kept; and he finds a free stand to speak out freely and without appropriate response As far as Liz, I'm not sure if it is only a being naïve issue.

That gave the Senate GOP, which has blocked public financing of political campaigns on the grounds that it costs too much money, an opening to attack, citing the recent Q - poll that found New York voters oppose the system 51 percent to 39 percent.