Sentences with phrase «lots of public funds»

«What is amazing about this prosecution is a lot of public funds have been expended by the Crown Prosecution Service... why should public money be spent on something like this?»

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«It's nice you don't have to raise funds, that you can time an IPO (initial public offering) yourself, it empties out a lot of work on your agenda, and it's nice Adyen can focus on building a strong company.»

Wide distribution over the internet • Low cost, efficient, transparent capital • The «great equalizer «• Media / PR, awareness • Increase customer engagement and • Evangelize backers into investors (customer acquisition) • Reduce risk by getting feedback on new launches (product or ventures) • Market research Access to Capital Marketing Platform Validation • Raising funds via crowdfunding markets is a very public and transparent • Protect your IP and speak to a lawyer • Crowdfunding takes a lot of effort and commitment • The majority of Ideas fail to reach their funding goal • How will this affect your companies brand?

And then, if you think about an ICO [initial coin offering] being the social equivalent to an IPO [initial public offering], a lot of smaller companies don't go to VCs [venture capitalists] to get funding.

«Sometimes, some of these issues take a lot longer to negotiate and compromise with, and you shouldn't be holding up funding for our schools, and funding for our roads, and funding for local governments to keep property taxes down, because of some of these major, broader public policy issues that should be kept out of the budget.»

We have the Public Accounts Committee that has unraveled a lot of corruption and embezzlement of funds in the Auditor General's report.

During the second come back of the Danquah / Busia family, Former President Kuffour also decided to use 4million dollars of state fund to renovate his private residence which generated lots of public outcry.

But a lot of them are just regular British people who have seen their region's funding dry up and their public services fail, and no - one has stopped it.

However, Cuomo found nothing illegal on either side (Bruno's flights were OK because he did a few public chores while on fund raising missions) just a whole lot of unethical stuff.

Aside from funding, there's a lot of anticipation about what Cuomo will propose regarding charter schools, to which public education advocates say he is overly beholden due to the big money he has received from deep pocketed charter boosters.

«Despite the progress outlined in this tentative deal there is clearly a lot of work ahead of us, including stronger criminal justice reforms; full funding for our state's public education system; ensuring affordable college for all New Yorkers, including DREAMers; additional support for Planned Parenthood; and ethics and voting reforms,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

In a way, the public might thank the public wowrker for its pension funds which invest a lot of money every day into the stock market.

Children attending these public schools still won't get their full fair share of public funding, but they'll be a lot closer than they've ever been.

He said after the speech that he liked a lot of it, but was opposed to using taxpayer money to fund public elections.

If this comes to pass, «we will have one giant and a lot of dwarfs,» says Alain Trautmann, the public face of Sauvons la Recherche, a protest movement that brought thousands of researchers onto the streets last year to protest cutbacks in research funding.

But Wisconsin state senator Russ Decker, a leading opponent of vouchers, has argued that the program gives money to children who would attend private schools anyway and declared, «You've got a lot of additional money going into the choice program that we could better use funding public education statewide.»

Public pension systems have received a lot of bad press based largely on shortfalls in funding brought about by political mismanagement and a bad economy.

In recent years, two explanations, the so - called «Bennett Hypothesis» and «state disinvestment» (state funding cuts for public universities), have received a lot of attention.

And the president's proposal to allow $ 1 billion in federal funds to follow poor children to the public schools of their choice — while thin on details — sounds a lot like a proposal that failed to pass the GOP - led Senate in 2015.

Clemons is not only a founding Board Member of the recently opened New Haven Montessori Charter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds to come.

A lot of change has happened in California public education over the last decade, from standards - based instruction to funding formulas to local control and accountability to scorecards and systems of support.

Chandra Villanueva with the Center for Public Policy Priorities has pointed out that the state legislature hands down a lot of rules and regulations without the day - to - day responsibility of implementation or political will to increase funding.

Posted on December 30, 2016 · Texas lawmakers are about to spend a lot of time talking about how the state funds its public schools.

Sure, we collect lots of funding from West Van homeowners, and could have a set of uber luxury public schools with sweeping views and grand pianos in the foyer, but instead that money pays for everyone's good schools across BC.

Quoting one of DFER's executive board members (most are hedge fund managers), one states that hedge fund managers «turn a small amount of capital into lots of capital» — and that's what they're looking for from public schools.

You can download e-Books from our public library in Nashville and there's a lot of conversation about how many times the book can be downloaded before the library has to buy it again from the publisher, but I think what's so important to remember, funding's being cut for everything.

It was a classic long - short value fund like those have a lot of people that you've probably had on the show and who are public equity value investors.

While each public works project costs quite a lot of money to get fully funded, the more you fund, the nicer your town will look and the happier your animal neighbors will be.

The Last Lot is a generous short - term donation to Art Production Fund from The Shubert Organization, and is part of the Times Square Alliance's public art program that works to bring cutting - edge art to Times Square (www.timessquarenyc.org).

The Last Lot is a generous short term donation to Art Production Fund from The Shubert Organization, and is part of the Times Square Alliance's public art program that works to bring cutting - edge art to Times Square.

In 2012, The Art Production Fund presented Kiki Smith: Chorus, a public installation comprised of the artist's multicolored stained - glass stars at The Last Lot project space on 46th Street and 8th Avenue in New York City.

There have to be a lot of considerations when artists choose the title for a Public Art Fund sculpture installation.

It's a diverse lot that includes the Alturas Foundation, which funded «Makin» Hay,» the public art installation of monumental sculpture by Tim Otterness at Hardberger Park; the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts, known for one of the best collections of African American art in the country; and Claudia Huntington and Marshall Miller, who loaned SAMA large scale figurative sculpture for the show, including the piece by Chia and Polish artist Igor Mitoraj's «Sonno Screpolato (Cracked Sleep),» a bronze of a fragmented face.

Looking back, I see that's what prompted a lot of the prints: the Metropolitan Museum's Mezzanine Gallery, under Danny Berger, commissioned Summer and Turkish Delight; In a Public Garden was made to raise funds for the Kunstverein, Dusseldorf, where Raimund Stecker curated a show of my paintings; Books for the Paris Review is self - explanatory; Norwich was intended to raise funds for the Elton John Aids Foundation but that never happened — instead, I made Two's Company for them; Sea was made to subsidise Thames & Hudson, who published the catalogue raisonné of my prints and Sunset was made as The Whitechapel Gift: proceeds to support the Whitechapel Gallery's education programmes.

It is public, but a lot of public universities seem to be into donation laundering, so I don't know how you could tell who was funding what, for sure.

In comparison to traditional retirement schemes such as EPF and Public Provident Fund, which refrain from investing in stocks at all, NPS is the best as it is a lot more flexible in terms of equity exposure.

Some of them have security clearances and were in the military industrial complex and one of them worked at the San Diego Naval Defence Research Lab and a lot of the idea for the networking protocols came out of public sector academic researched, funded from there.

Here's one article or you can google and find some other articles about it too, if you'd like, but it seems that the Hasidics are taking over the school district boards and diverting a lot of the funding for religious schools, which is hurting the regular public schools» funding.