Sentences with phrase «little government support»

In many countries it is local communities that build their own schools, with very little government support... PLEASE let us not hold California up as the be all and end all.

Despite very little government support from Indonesia, the community makes do by practicing «D.I.Y.» and «making a lot of jokes,» Sutawijaya notes.

Startups in Vietnam, like Indonesia, thrive with little government support beyond legal advice and $ 10,000 cash under a scheme dubbed Vietnam Silicon Valley.

Not exact matches

And whereas Canada's federal government provides little support for alternative energy projects, U.S. President Barack Obama still wants to catch the green - energy wave.

Caught between drug gangs and often - corrupt police, with little or no support from the government, residents of Guerrero are left with few options.

Now that local governments face an affordable housing crisis with little federal assistance, fees are being levied to support affordable housing, too.

Federal support for research and development is generous and essential, but too often, government - assisted research results in patents that create jobs abroad; consider how little Apple and Microsoft technology results in U.S. - based manufacturing.

But the engagement of Visser t» Hooft, Henry Smith Leiper, Bishop George Bell and other ecumenical leaders found little support among the grass roots of their own churches or the leaders of their governments.

A government review of the children of offenders, carried out in 2007, found that they were «an «invisible» group: there is no shared, robust information on who they are, little awareness of their needs and no systematic support».

The few young talents that have found themselves at the top have done it through their own hard work, relied on luck with little or no government support and it is adversely affecting our medal hopes at both local and international events.

The macabre implication is that the Republicans have become the party of the patrician class, in support of a feeble social contract that provides as little as possible to the masses, and a model for government whose raison d'être is to enable its wealthiest citizens to achieve a quality of life unattainable to the rest.

«Because it deals with the poor on a unique level, apart from the mainstream financial community, there are no national policies on microfinance, and little direct government support.»

The Tory victory looks like evidence of how little the public is now willing to tolerate compromise of any sort: the message that hit home hardest during the campaign was the threat of constitutional chaos if a minority Labour government had tried to cling to power with the support of the SNP and a host of other minor parties.

Westminster's voting system has allowed governments to form with little popular support.

His support for a 2.5 percent budget increase for the judicial branch in exchange for judges certifying that their courtrooms are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to reduce backlogs would force more accountability in a branch of government that has little.

But for all the bluster, the partisan reporting appears to have had little impact on the campaigns; both Labour and the Conservatives are locked in the low to mid-30s in terms of party support and polls are predicting neither party will have enough seats to form a government alone.

«Regrettably, all the excellent support, guidance and information that was previously available to schools was discarded by the Coalition Government when it came to office and replaced with a few inadequate paragraphs of advice which amount to little more than telling schools that «bullying is bad and you shouldn't tolerate it».

12:04 - Tracey Crouch (Con, a little nervous) asks what the government is doing to support those with dementia.

And while his bill has gained little support since the Bronx Democrat first introduced it four years ago, with some legislative colleagues bashing it as government overreach, experts say the times may be changing.

«We have a lot of great busineses here in New York State; we appreciate the support of the government,» Little said.

It is also supporting a measure that would change the state's procurement process to make it «a little bit more transparent for vendors,» according to Ken Pokalsky, the council's vice president of government affairs.

In an attempt to see off the proposal for votes at 16, the government declared there was little public support for such a move and it would have looked like an attempt to rig the contest.

YouGov's lastest poll for the Sunday Times confirms the main messages from our immediate post-Budget poll for the Sun: that the Budget is seen as unfair, that most people disbelieve government assertions that the rich will end up paying more tax, that pensioners are being unfairly penalised — and that Tory support has slipped a little but without boosting Labour's rating.

I will support anyone who will help to break the stranglehold that Noam and his little machine have on New Rochelle in which they divert school resources (brain power and money) to «their» schools and raise campaign cash by tapping into companies and individuals with business before the City government.

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The movie's real courage, though — and the place where it requires courage from its viewers — is its unflinching portrait of what it was like to live with HIV in an era when treatment for the disease had no successful protocol, little government funding, and little recognition or support outside the gay community.

The film has a fantastic supporting cast in Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney, but they're characters only service is to convey the American government's stance, which leaves little elbow room for Tucci and Linney to develop the characters.

But because she's a transgender woman in a country with little to no support for trans people, she has to navigate cruelties lodged both by her boyfriend's unaccepting family and the government.

But because she's a transgender woman, in a country with little to no support for trans people, she has to navigate cruelties lodged her way both by her boyfriend's unaccepting family and the government.

At the moment, the U.S. government heavily subsidizes the production of unhealthy foods while providing little direct support to ranchers and farmers who are producing the kind of healthy foods we should be eating.

We either deal with the student loan debt crisis today and the government writes of loads of federal student loan debt or we wait till the future when scores of people will be retiring on little funds and need support from the government to just live.

And the rally was likely initially fueled by easing concerns over Catalonia, thanks to a poll over the weekend from an anti-independence newspaper showing that support for independence has waned, as well as reports on Monday that there were little signs of unrest in Catalonia despite calls by the Catalan government for civil disobedience.

It seems likely that the government would continue to play a significant role in working with lenders and communities in support of affordable housing and home loans, but the administration is suggesting changes that could make home loans less affordable for first time buyers with little cash and moderate income families currently depending on FHA for buying homes or refinancing existing mortgage loans.

The stress on shelter staff is significant: no room to put ever more dogs; having to euthanize dogs to make room for new dogs; performing triage on sick animals when space is limited; having to make hard choices about evening and weekend heating and lighting with a small budget; no veterinarian or vet tech on the staff; no evening or weekend staff; no time to network adoptable animals; no available homes in the surrounding communities; inadequate transport vehicles; little or no support from local government; an Animal Control Officer often doing double duty, responsible also for managing the shelter; counties lacking even a shelter or inside kenneling.

For two years, we have struggled with funding with little support coming from our local government.

«Funding for indies is an issue here where there is very little government recognition or business support for small studios,» says Williams.

You will get support from national foundations and a little bit from the government, but the greatest amount will come from local donors, so you have to make sure they understand the positive impact that the museum has on the city, the region and its residents.

Within India there is very little or no government support for the arts, but within the country there are a number of highly passionate individuals who are taking it upon themselves to fill the country's arts funding gap.

This wasn't a surprise; it got little or no support from Governments on this side of the lake, and the incompetent Toronto Port Authority couldn't put up a building in time.

Government support for biofuel is only one example of a knee - jerk «green» policy that creates lucrative opportunities for a self - interested group of businesses but does very little to help the planet.

Although the ditchweed is primarily being eradicated in mid-western states where it was once grown to support WWII efforts with the encouragement of the federal government, these plants would have little or no psychoactive effect on people who might smoke them because they contain very low levels of THC, the drug component in marijuana.

Sadly, both the wind industry, and governments, have not responded to these concerns in any meaningful way, and those affected are given little if any support.

The money is readily available to launch such an initiative in an area such as Chicago, both from government agencies which in recent years are investing more than $ 20 million annually in climate change education initiatives and from private foundations which as I detail in the Climate Shift report invested more than $ 360 million in climate change and energy initiatives, but only a little more than a $ 1 million of this funding went to direct support for media organizations or projects.

On the right, a wide swath of advocates still cling to the idea that government has little role in supporting groundbreaking industries like clean technology and doing so is nothing more than «picking winners and losers.»

Beyond high food prices, little to show for $ 11B / yr in biofuel support, says OECD report (7/17/2008) Government support of biofuel production in rich countries is squandering vast amounts of amounts of money while exacerbating the global food crisis and failing to meaningfully curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security, alleges a new report from the OECD, the club of industrialized nations.

Yet there is a significant proportion of Australians who believe it is not happening or it is not caused by mankind, and while our government does recognise ACC it is steadfastly supporting the fossil fuel industry, not supporting renewable energy and doing very little to reduce Australia's exceptionally high rate of greenhouse gas production.

Roy Spencer: «I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government.»

Governments apply greenwash with very little understanding of and support for the necessary regional approaches of farmers groups, volunteers or indeed their own staff.

I view my job a little like a legislator, supported by the taxpayer, to protect the interests of the taxpayer and to minimize the role of government.

However, [they] have presented little evidence as to how they will respond... For that reason, our government can not support the issuance of a certificate for the pipeline as it was presented to the Joint Review Panel.»