Sentences with phrase «largest financial supporter»

At the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the country's largest financial supporter of basic medical research, the sequester led to $ 1.6 billion in cuts (a 5 percent reduction from 2012) and the loss of 20,000 jobs.

The Walton Family Foundation, the philanthropic instrument of Walmart's founding coterie, is now its largest financial supporter.

Lerner said Common Cause's larger financial supporters included the Proteus Fund, the New York Community Trust, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Park Foundation, which sponsored a 2014 Common Cause report on campaign and lobbying spending by the hydrofracking industry.

Since then the union and its generous members have been GDA's largest financial supporters.

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Democrats and progressive groups, who argue that banks need more oversight, not less, are preparing to use the issue to animate supporters still angry that Wall Street banks have not paid a larger price for the financial crisis.

Canwest (now bankrupt) is Canada's largest media company and a financial supporter of the BC Liberals, controlling B.C.'s three major newspapers, top watched news station, top Internet portal and many weeklies.

The findings suggest London will comfortably remain Europe's largest financial centre, at least in the short term, boosting supporters of leaving the EU, who say the threat of job losses from one of Britain's biggest industries was exaggerated.