Sentences with phrase «in subsidies from their governments»

At issue is the assertion by the Big Three U.S. airlines — Delta, American and United — that the Gulf carriers have received $ 42 billion in subsidies from their governments since 2004, violating open skies agreements by giving them an unfair advantage in the international aviation market.
For every # 1 a business spends on fuel, it gets # 1.60 in subsidies from the government.

Not exact matches

Boeing (ba) and Bombardier (bombf) traded barbs on Monday over the U.S. planemaker's claim that its Canadian rival benefited from billions of dollars in illegal government subsidies and dumped its newest jetliner in the United States at below cost.
From 2005 to 2014, the company received at least $ 613 million in local government subsidies to build warehouses and another $ 147 million for its data centers, according to a report by the Institute for Local Self - Reliance, a group that pushes for local resources to be dedicated to community development.
Over the past couple of years, Emirates» expansion into the US market has been met with pushback from a coalition lead by American, Delta, and United Airlines (the US3) that claim Emirates» growth has been fueled billions of dollars in government subsidies.
«In addition to a growing need for international exchange resulting from China's economic development, local governments» increased subsidies are driving Chinese carriers» global route expansion,» Shanghai - based Cadas said in a report released ThursdaIn addition to a growing need for international exchange resulting from China's economic development, local governments» increased subsidies are driving Chinese carriers» global route expansion,» Shanghai - based Cadas said in a report released Thursdain a report released Thursday.
At the core of the disagreement is a claim by Boeing that Bombardier has cheated American trade rules by accepting subsidies from the Canadian government and selling its CSeries aircraft in the United States at below market prices.
In China, the biggest user, higher domestic prices and government subsidies have resulted in a «notable rise» in output from smelters, Citigroup said in a July 16 reporIn China, the biggest user, higher domestic prices and government subsidies have resulted in a «notable rise» in output from smelters, Citigroup said in a July 16 reporin a «notable rise» in output from smelters, Citigroup said in a July 16 reporin output from smelters, Citigroup said in a July 16 reporin a July 16 report.
As a young company, Gildan benefited from being in Canada, receiving government subsidies, and, when it hit a rough patch during the»90s, even borrowing from Quebec's labour - sponsored fund, the Fonds de solidarité FTQ, which invested $ 3.5 million in Gildan shares starting in 1996 and lent the company up to $ 30 million in debentures.
Independents want cuts in government spending and entitlement reform, but just not those cuts and reforms in things like education and Medicare and various middle class subsidies from which they immediately benefit.
On top of rent supplements, each privately owned apartment costs the government from $ 4,000 to 6,000 per year in tax benefits and interest subsidies.
There was little economic activity — some trading in forest delicacies, some income from the trekkers, some bribes from the logging companies who had encroached almost as far as Murudi — but government subsidies filled the gap.
Tropical Traditions also restored traditional methods of producing coconut oil by hand, and also worked to provide consumer access to other traditional products that had fallen out of favor in the U.S. market, but for which there was a demand from health - conscious consumers interested in sourcing food outside the corporate commodity food supply kept cheap by government subsidies.
In fact, fruit and vegetable farmers receive no subsidies from the government, though fruits and vegetables should make up the largest share of Americans» diets, according to the new pyramid.
«In 2012, the government reformed the HRA subsidy system so councils keep all the rents they collect from their homes, and receipts from sales of houses or land, giving them the freedom to invest them in building new homes.&raquIn 2012, the government reformed the HRA subsidy system so councils keep all the rents they collect from their homes, and receipts from sales of houses or land, giving them the freedom to invest them in building new homes.&raquin building new homes.»
In addition, no matter where the high - tech weapons is made, the producers receive heavy subsidies from the government, there is little «market competition» because assault / defense weapons is not basic necessity post WW2.
The restructuring of VRA will also enable the use of cheap electricity from legacy hydro to support government subsidy objectives to a targeted category of consumers in a transparent manner.
Turning to the spare room subsidy, in a week in which DWP Secretary of State Iain Duncan Smith had announced that foster carers and people whose teenage children were in the army would be excluded from it, he said that it had been clear from day one that the government's intention was that they wouldn't be affected by this.
That insulates most consumers from price increases even as it requires the federal government to pay more in subsidies.
On May 20, 2015, nine days BEFORE the government was inaugurated, I laid out «Policy Prescriptions» - diversification of production, government revenue, and exports; imperative of a strong and credible economic team and cabinet; targeting «opportunity sectors» (solid minerals, refining and petrochemicals, a new and realistic fiscal regime for upstream oil and gas, private sector investments in power and infrastructure, agro-processing, retail and construction); freeing «up resources from downstream petroleum sector deregulation» emphasizing «an economic reality in which hard decisions including some previously rebuffed by the opposition will have to be taken» a clear reference to the petrol subsidy which government waited a full year before countenancing the critical decision!
One of the charges read, «That you, Adegbite Adetoye and Ponnle Abiodun whilst being directors of Origin Oil and Gas Limited on or about the 8th day of October 2010 to December, 2011 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and with intent to defraud, conspired to obtain the sum of N735, 132, 076.18 From the Federal Government of Nigeria under false pretence that the said sum represented subsidy accruing to you, whereas the sum is above the actual subsidy payment for the importation of 15,000 mt of premium motor spirit (petrol) which you claim to have purchased from Vitol SA and imported into Nigeria through MT Silverie which representation you knew to be false.&raFrom the Federal Government of Nigeria under false pretence that the said sum represented subsidy accruing to you, whereas the sum is above the actual subsidy payment for the importation of 15,000 mt of premium motor spirit (petrol) which you claim to have purchased from Vitol SA and imported into Nigeria through MT Silverie which representation you knew to be false.&rafrom Vitol SA and imported into Nigeria through MT Silverie which representation you knew to be false.»
According to Good Jobs First, a national policy resource center that tracks subsidies from local and state governments, New York leads the country in overall spending on megadeals — defined as corporate incentive packages that total more than $ 75 million.
The Bronx - based Parkash, who owns about 60 buildings, has collected more than $ 500,000 in Section 8 subsidies from the federal government over the past five years, according to the New York Post.
Now, McMillan, teeing off rants against everything from government subsidies of Wall Street to the price of a can of lima beans, says he once again has City Hall in his sites — and was inspired to run, in part, by Prince's death.
The sad thing is that our local community in New Square is described in Wikipedia as a place where «four Hasidic men created a nonexistent Jewish school to receive $ 30 million in education grants, subsidies, and loans from the U.S. federal government.
From, 2010 to 2020 roughly, the federal government would have to supply about 420 billion dollars in subsidies to get these massive scale [s] of production for, you know, all the mix of photovoltaic systems, solar power systems, the compressed air systems, the direct current system.
Michael Pattison, chief executive of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, says that in the past two years the government has spent more than Pounds Sterling 100 million collecting information on house values for the Council Tax and on land use so that farmers can claim subsidies from the European Commission.
But corn's main deleterious effects come from high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is used in so many processed foods that it's now almost impossible to avoid thanks in large part to the collusion between the food industry and government that serves to provide lavish subsidies to grow corn, which manipulate normal market forces.
At the same time business has become an influential advocate for school reform, Robert B. Reich, a prominent political economist at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, argues in The Work of Nations, it has quietly worked to procure subsidies and tax breaks from state and local governments.
Because of the giant distortions of the presence and subsidies from the federal government as well as the atypical set of people who live in that area, policy experiences in DC are very often quite different from the experiences in the rest of the country.
But even in the case of direct government subsidies, it's far from clear that accountability to government is necessary or even prudent, as Professor Jay P. Greene of the University of Arkansas explains:
A recent study from the Center for American Progress, for example, found that, in 30 states, mid-career teachers who head families of four or more are eligible for government subsidies, such as subsidized children's health insurance or free or reduced - price school meals.
Add an endless chorus of disenchantment from politicians who hate in principle the idea of government support for the part of the car industry interested in electrification (as opposed to glorious subsidies for everything petroleum - related), and Fisker was always going to be in the crosshairs.
The Wall Street Journal mentioned that «In France, newspapers also have had to play catch - up online, given that overall circulation is down by nearly a third in four years and direct government subsidies to the press are projected to slide 29 % by 2015 from their 2010 peaIn France, newspapers also have had to play catch - up online, given that overall circulation is down by nearly a third in four years and direct government subsidies to the press are projected to slide 29 % by 2015 from their 2010 peain four years and direct government subsidies to the press are projected to slide 29 % by 2015 from their 2010 peak.
In order to take full advantage of what OverDrive can offer, Libranda is transitioning to a cloud - based system, funded in part by subsidies and loans from outside sources and government agencieIn order to take full advantage of what OverDrive can offer, Libranda is transitioning to a cloud - based system, funded in part by subsidies and loans from outside sources and government agenciein part by subsidies and loans from outside sources and government agencies.
In addition to this helpful government subsidy, students with subsidized loans also benefit from a six month grace period after their graduation.
The new Build America Bond Program allows state and local governments to issue taxable bonds in 2009 and 2010 for government capital projects and receive a direct federal subsidy payment from the US Treasury for a portion of their borrowing costs.
Another argument in favor of the option is that some postsecondary institutions may increase tuition to benefit from some of the subsidies that the government gives students; reducing subsidies might therefore slow the growth of tuition.
Notably, the White House administration has delayed implementation of the income verification rules, leaving income verification for now on the «honor system» (with random checks of a statistically significant sample to verify compliance), but raising concern from many that there may be a higher incidence of fraudulent income reporting to qualify for the subsidy in the coming year (though ultimately, inappropriately reported amounts could still be recaptured by the Federal government when the subsequent tax return is filed later, as discussed below, limiting the potential scope of any fraud).
Along with United and Delta Air Lines, American has been vocal in its opposition to Gulf carriers» operations in the United States, arguing they should be curtailed in response to illegal subsidies from Middle Eastern governments.
Among other criticism, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who had seen the work in the catalogue but not in the show, called it «sick stuff» and threatened to withdraw the annual $ 7 million City Hall grant from the Brooklyn Museum hosting the show, because «You don't have a right to government subsidy for desecrating somebody else's religion.»
These include reducing inertia in social and economic systems; building on a growing public desire for governments to act on climate change; removing implicit and explicit subsidies; reducing the influence of vested interests that increase emissions and reduce resilience; enabling the shifts from ineffective governance and weak institutions to innovative leadership in government, the private sector and civil society; and engaging society in the transition to norms and practices that foster sustainability.
The food shortages and riots that have wracked the world in recent months, from the Philippines to Egypt to Haiti, have starkly dramatized the moral bankruptcy inherent in our government's continued subsidies for the production of corn ethanol.
Suffice to say that when you factor in all of the government subsidies and «externalities» (increased health costs from respiratory sickness, environmental degradation, etc; the stuff that we all have to pay for maybe not from our wallets but in our tax returns), the true price of fossil fuels is much, much higher than any individual or company pays.
Before announcing the closure of Northern in mid-2015, Alinta unsuccessfully sought $ 25 million in subsidies over three years from the South Australian Labor government to keep it operating until this year, to ensure an effective transition occurred, after a rapid rise in renewable energy made it unviable.
It is hardly surprising that such reductions in subsidies would lead to «protests» and «outrage» from the solar industry; an earlier Washington Post article by Faiola in November 2009 took note of the fact that even with subsidies in place, average German families had a hard time adopting solar on a household level since they «can't afford the initial cost, which runs between $ 8,000 to $ 20,000 even after generous government rebates.
And then the bubble bursts and the wind - scam reality is exposed... «When you're trying to sell a «product» with no commercial value, the «business» — for want of a better word — can only be about what you can extract from gullible / compliant governments (and unwitting power consumers), in the form of massive and endless subsidies
Iran leads the world in fossil fuel consumption subsidies providing $ 78 billion from its government resources in 2014 to lower the cost of fossil fuels to end - users in its country.
Your point about coal vs. oil availability in the 19th century is well taken, although I would remind you that much oil exploration (outside of the middle east) is not done on the cheap, and is indeed supported by generous subsidies from governments.
We are dismayed to see people being forced from their homes due to incessant, wind turbine generated low - frequency noise and infrasound; and horrified as we witnessed those in positions of power not only fail to help those people, but turn on these victims of a government - sanctioned, subsidy - soaked industry.
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