Sentences with phrase «of money from»

Belatedly, he got a large chunk of money from the British government and a larger one from the ESA.

The amount of money from the federal government is nothing compared with the total budget, and as I've seen here at Stanford, the federal commitment and the federal money is more than matched by private money.

I do not think those measures are necessary, as bad as piracy is right now, the movie companies are still making plenty of money from publishing DVDs and etc, so why do these things that will affect no one but your legitimate buyers?

At Davos, Zennström remarked that Google probably has a comparably low percentage of paying customers because the company makes most of its money from users clicking directly on ads.

«Facebook is a free platform that makes most of its money from advertising,» Cavusoglu said.

Although Congress has approved plenty of mandatory spending programs — the National Science Foundation (NSF), for instance, gets a regular stream of money from visa fees for science education efforts — lawmakers are often loath to approve them, because they are perceived to reduce congressional control over spending.

He noted that when he first conceived the idea, people told him he could make a lot of money from it, but he decided it should be a public - interest initiative.

He said members of Congress are talking about reforms after the record $ 7 billion spent on the 2012 federal elections, including at least $ 1 billion from super PACs that can raise unlimited amounts of money from anonymous donors.

Large organizations like hospitals get most of their money from the federal government or private donors, meaning that the compensation of those executives may not be affected.

The Collins Victory Fund raised 96 percent of its money from individuals, and its list of donors reads like a who's who of top local Republicans.

«We're not going to be intimidated by people who take a lot of money from fossil fuel companies and then do their bidding,» Schneiderman said.

Both of those additions could take another significant chunk of money from traditional public schools.

Auerbach's office has repeatedly questioned the wisdom and propriety of a number of Hein administration initiatives, including Hein's use of money from the county's contingency fund to bolster annual budgets.

«And her husband was receiving tons of money from places.»

They say since school aid is the largest portion of the state budget, that could adversely affect the flow of money from the state to local districts.

Cuomo has been by far and away the biggest beneficiary of money from LLCs.

While technically a lobbying entity, the CSNY shared many attributes with independent expenditure committees: it raised large sums of money from a small number of donors to bolster the agenda of a specific politician with whom it purportedly did not coordinate, running advertisements thematically identical to those funded by the Democratic Party's campaign finance committee later in Cuomo's term.

Most of the money from Tudor Jones, a hedge fund manager who's been supportive of charter schools, went to Cuomo or the state Democrats, but he also gave $ 2,500 to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

In 2010, Rick Lazio raised a larger share of his money from small donors than either his Republican primary opponent Carl Paladino or the general election victor, Cuomo.

While Katko raised most of his money from political committees, Balter received a vast majority of her funds from individual donors.

But he did get 84 % of his money from out of his district.

A recent newspaper publication suggested that, the former President, John Mahama, has threatened to publish the names of people who received various sums of money from him for campaign activities.

But the SEEC argued that the get - out - the - vote message on the proposed mailer — taking up less than 1 percent of its surface area — is «incidental» to the vote - for - Malloy message and is not enough to justify massive spending of money from the party's «federal account» on the state election.

«For many years the counties got a lot of money from the arrangement and now obviously the casino has stopped paying,» Cuomo said.

The Minority in Parliament is accusing government of illegally withdrawing huge sums of money from the petroleum stabilization fund.

The Arizona GOP has also received its fair share of money from people accused of sexual improprieties, including more than $ 14,000 since 2004 from Las Vegas casino magnate and former Republican National Committee finance chairman Steve Wynn.

He says if Astorino manages to raise substantial amounts of money from New Yorkers or attracts the interest of national Super PAC, he could counter the attacks.

«They raised vast amounts of money from hedge funds that were interested in very specific policy points and had them spend massive amounts of money in independent expenditures to deliver the policy that keeps them in power.»

Since January 2011, Buerkle has raised 75.4 percent of her money from outside of the 24th Congressional District, according to an analysis by The Post-Standard of campaign finance data.

Sampson, a Democrat who represented Brooklyn, was convicted last year of lying and obstructing justice to cover up his receipt of money from a mortgage broker.

Most of this money from 32BJ, which represents building workers, was spent on promoting de Blasio's candidacy in tandem with candidates for other offices, such as campaign literature featuring both the mayor and the particular candidate, often for City Council.

Much of what those returns revealed basically fleshed out stuff we knew thanks to his financial disclosure report: That CNN gig was pretty darned lucrative (it's paid him $ 1 million since it was canceled); Spitzer and his wife Silda, who filed jointly, still made most of their money from his family's real estate holdings ($ 2.5 million last year); and the family is paying him a $ 180,00 salary to run its business.

«I expect we will continue to raise significant amounts of money from Staten Island.»

Candidates who did not participate raised 17 percent of their money from donors who gave them $ 250 or less.

No surprise that Klein — the landlords» best friend in the Senate with a «D, WF» after his name — got tons of money from landlords including at least $ 5000 from the notorious slumlord Larry Gluck — see one of his many corporate names «WB Stellar IP Owner, LLC» Another big corporate donor to Klein and his IDC clan is the check cashing industry.

Five days after the Suffolk County District Attorney's office confirmed it had launched an investigation into the theft of money from the Southold Town Justice Court, the Town Board accepted the resignation of its Senior Court Clerk Tuesday evening.

As a mayoral candidate, de Blasio received a significant amount of money from horse carriage abolitionists.

In practice, fusion has become a game for the political elite, with endorsements by «paper parties» like the Working Families Party, Conservative Party, and Independence Party usually earned in back room deals with implicit — or explicit — trades of political favors and campaign cash (a recent NYPIRG investigative report found that the Working Families Party gets most of its money from the Democratic Party).

The state Democratic Party asked the Federal Election Commission on Oct. 1 for a legal opinion to support its contention that it's OK under federal law to spend an undisclosed amount of money from its «federal account» to pay for a proposed mass mailing that says, «On November 4th, vote for Dan Malloy.»

Environmentalists object to the use of money from the clean water fund for the bridge construction project.

There is the subsidy of Scotland and Wales and the transfer of money from south to north generally.

Asked about an as - yet un-formed compromise that would give him some other amount of money from some other source, he said he would not «deal in the hypothetical.»

They bring «increased economic activity» — a transfer of money from one party to another — but no real economic development.

Spanning from the disaster that befell Spain in the sixteenth century to the 2008 global financial crisis, War and Gold is an ambitious and unique study of money from the acclaimed author of Ghosts of Empire.

The latest in the kitty is this issue of some 4 missing Harbin z9 Helicopters; before it was some fathom Gh7billion, then Cars, then various sums of money from COCOBOD, BOST, TOR and GSA!

They said since school aid is the largest portion of the state budget, that could adversely affect the flow of money from the state to local districts.

He says if Astorino manages to raise substantial amounts of money from New Yorkers or attracts the interest of a national Super PAC, he could counter the attacks.

To counter the large deficit, Gibson on Tuesday proposed a candidate - imposed ban on using New York's LLC loophole to raise large sums of money from well - heeled donors.

A month after former Southold Town senior court clerk Christine Stulsky resigned amid an investigation into the theft of money from the court the Southold Town Board created a new position for the department.

Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled Friday he's going to significantly shift his fundraising strategy as he readies his 2017 re-election campaign, focusing on raising small amounts of money from a wide group of donors rather than relying heavily on wealthy donors who can pay the maximum amount to his campaign.