Sentences with phrase «penny of government»

Under federal law, not a penny of government money can be used to cover abortion — except in cases of rape, incest and life - threatening pregnancies.

It's absolutely mind - blowing that a penny of government subsidy is being spent on this.»

«David T.C. Davies: When I last raised this issue, I asked the Secretary of State for an assurance that not one penny of Government money was being given to extremists or to violent extremists.

Can we possibly be given an assurance today that not one penny of Government money is being given to extremists, and if not, why not?

This is: Wolff, a Los Angeles — based real estate developer, says he will finance the project without a penny of government money.

Gramm argued that every penny of government spending should be measured by whether it was justified in taking that dollar from Dickey Flatt and his family.

Not exact matches

The offer values Ladbrokes Coral at 160.9 pence per share, equating to a total equity value of around 3.1 billion pounds, plus a contingent fee of up to 42.8 pence a share, depending on the outcome of the government review.

Many of the government's largest sting operations come from busting up cross-state Ponzi schemes, «affinity» investment scams (which prey on the elderly or on particular ethnic or religious groups), and penny - stock boiler rooms, like the infamous Stratton Oakmont and Sterling Foster.

As the Government Accountability Office explains, the markets began quoting prices in decimal increments rather than fractions of a dollar, while the minimum price increment was reduced to a penny on the stock market (and 5 or 10 cents on the options market).

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

In January 2013 the non-governmental organisation Sustain, supported by 61 health organisations, called for a 20 pence per litre excise duty on sugar sweetened drinks.4 In February, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges called for a 20 % tax on sugar sweetened drinks as part of its enquiry into clinical and public health solutions to the obesity epidemic.1 Although the UK government has indicated a preference for voluntary approaches to the control of obesity, it has not ruled out fiscal measures.14 Clearly, the idea of a sugar sweetened drink tax is gaining traction in the UK, but its effect on health remains uncertain.

There are amazing people and organizations in the trenches of government making sense of policy and legislation to ensure we leverage every penny of funding available.

That is why we have said every penny of windfall from the sale of the government's stakes in the banks must be used to repay the national debt — not for a politically timed pre-election giveaway at the expense of taxpayers and the economy.

I can not be alone in thinking that it would be more beneficial for the government to be spending their scarce pennies on recovering lost VAT and creating an education programme to make it easier for individuals - and businesses - to fill in their tax forms correctly, when a massive two - thirds (65.9 %) of the lost revenue comes from these areas.

«The penny may well have dropped with Nick Clegg that the government of which he is a senior member was wrong to attack spending, but his words offer nothing to the 20,000 people thrown onto the dole queue in the past three weeks alone, they won't revive our pock - marked high streets and they offer nothing for the millions more for whom life under this shambles of a government is bleak.

With a new International Development Secretary, Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP, and an updating of Government plans, WaterAid have launched their brand...

Some of them — such as Nadhim Zahawi and Penny Mordaunt — were widely expected to earn a place in government.

The LGA wants the Government to give councils two pence per litre of existing fuel duty to spend on local roads maintenance.

In 2015 - 16, Mark Francois, Penny Mordaunt and Sajid Javid all paid their subscriptions to the organisation while holding jobs in government, and the ERG gained its first cabinet level minister, as Javid became Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

For each 80 pence that is paid into the account, the Government will pay in 20 pence up to a maximum of # 500 (# 1,000 if the child is disabled) Government support per three month entitlement period.

It would not cost a penny to give communities a genuine say over the future of their local, and would demonstrate that the government no longer thinks that is okay for pub owners to be able to rob a community of its pubs, with no real chance for them to even have a say or for others to take on the pub.

The 11 person U.S. delegation, along with representatives of several U.S. government trade and investment - focused agencies, was led by the Honourable Penny Pritzker — U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

The TFC scheme will operate through online accounts and for every 80 pence paid in, the Government will add 20 pence up to a maximum of # 500 (# 1,000 for disabled children) per child for each three month entitlement period.

He accepted that Labour's statutory goal was to cut the deficit by 2013 - 14, and acknowledged that it was not possible for any government to set out the last penny and pound of what it would be spending in 2016 - 17.

Michael Gove, the environment secretary, Penny Mordaunt, the newly - promoted defence secretary, David Gauk, the work and pensions secretary, Sajid Javid, the communities and local government secretary, Andrea Leadsom, the Leader of the House of Commons, and Chris Grayling, the transport secretary, have all used official expenses claims to pay for «ERG subscriptions» over the last 12 months.

Owen Wilson steps in as government informer Coy Harlingen; Benicio Del Toro as Doc's lawyer Sauncho Smilax, Esq; Reese Witherspoon as very put - together Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball; Maya Rudolph as Petunia Leeway; Martin Short as Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd, D.D.S.; the unsettling stripper Belladonna as Clancy Charlock (as Michelle Sinclair) and a host of other outstanding dudes and dudesses.

What makes this transformation so incredible is that it is not the result of buckets of government funding or a shiny new building: «We have not received a single penny more money in order to achieve what we have done,» explains Nolan.

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He suggested a number of ways you can keep the penny (and nickel, which costs the U.S. government 9 cents per coin to produce) and make it cheaper to create — make it smaller, fashion it out of aluminum — but getting rid of the currency all together may make the most sense.

Lack of government and stock exchange oversight and general information leaves penny stock investors open to sudden losses.

U.S. Government Benjamin Rhodes — Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting, National Security Council Evan Ryan — Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), Department of State Denis McDonough — Chief of Staff, The White House Bernadette Meehan — Senior Director for Strategic Communications & NSC Spokesperson, National Security Council Jonathan Greenblatt — Special Assistant to the President and Director, Office of Social Innovation & Civil Participation, The White House Penny Pritzker — Secretary of Commerce, Department of Commerce Carrie Hessler - Radelet — Director, Peace Corps Tina Tchen — Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady, The White House Shannon Green — Senior Director for Global Engagement, National Security Council

Dean, who is 10 years Lai's junior and comes from Newcastle, was Marten's fellow 2016 Turner prize nominee, in which his installation included a pile of pennies amounting to # 20,436, the amount the government states is the annual minimum a family of four can live on.

Martin Gayford talks to Penny Johnson, the director of the UK's Government Art Collection for Bloomberg:

These sculptures are accessories to the room's central exhibit, for which Dean borrowed # 20,436 (the exact sum the UK government stipulates as its official poverty line), converted it into pennies and dumped it in the middle of the gallery.

Susanna Bianchini, Adrian George, Penny Johnson, Habda Rashid The Cult of the Difficult (MACC to GAC and Back) MACC London Metropolitan University in Partnership with the Government Art Collection and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Chris FIELD (Carnegie Institution, USA)-- Chair • Philippe CIAIS (Climate Environment Society, France) • Wolfgang CRAMER (Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale, France) • Purnamita DASGUPTA (Institute of Economic Growth, India) • Ruth DEFRIES (Colombia University, USA) • Navroz DUBASH (Centre for Policy Research, India) • Ottmar EDENHOFER (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) • Michael GRUBB (University College London, UK) • Jean - Charles HOURCADE (Centre national de la recherche scientifique [INRA], France) • Sheila JASANOFF (Harvard Kennedy School of Government, USA) • Kejun JIANG (Nanyang Technological University, China) • Vladimir KATTSOV (Main Geophysical Observatory, Russia) • Hervé LE TREUT (CNRS - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France) • Emilio LEBRE LA ROVERE (National University, Brazil) • Valérie MASSON - DELMOTTE (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement / Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France) • Cheik M'BOW (World Agroforestry Centre [ICRAF], Kenya) • Isabelle NIANG - DIOP (Institut de recherche pour le développement, Senegal) • Carlos NOBRE (Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais [Cemaden / MCTI], Brazil) • Karen O'BRIEN (University of Oslo, Norway) • Joy PEREIRA (University Kebangsaan, Malaysia) • Shilong PIAO (Peking University, China) • Hans - Otto PÖRTNER (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) • Monika RHEIN (University of Bremen, Germany) • Johan ROCKSTRÖM (Stockholm University, Sweden) • Hans SCHELLNHUBER (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany) • Robert SCHOLES (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) • Pete SMITH (University of Aberdeen, UK) • Youba SOKONA (The South Centre, Switzerland) • Jean - François SOUSSANA (Institut national de la recherche agronomique [INRA], France) • Mark STAFFORD - SMITH (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) • Thomas STOCKER (University of Bern, Switzerland) • Laurence TUBIANA (Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales, France) • Diana ÜRGE - VORSATZ (Central European University, Hungary) • Penny URQUHART (Independent analyst, South Africa) • Carolina VERA (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) • Alistair WOODWARD (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

When you consider this the cost of a gallon of gas is pennies compared to one illegal.Without the extra expense our government forces on us for war, illegals, and freebies like the $ 15,000 a month salaries senators get for life for retirement a $ 400 gas we now pay would be 50 cents.

Oroville is an apt metaphor and symbol for California government that continues to be in denial about its dysfunctional water and energy infrastructure policies and priorities... Failure to fix the designed weaknesses of the spillways surely was «penny wise but pound foolish» given the enormity of the consequences of failure.

But it would be hard for the federal government to spends billions of dollars a year on a controversial topic, with every penny of the spending based on the presumption that global warming is a serious crisis worthy of billions of tax dollars, and not have those billions make a powerful impression on the public.

I have spent 5 years of my life and every penny that I have developing a renewable energy product, a product that with technoligy partner Siemens we aim to release to the UK market in Jan 2016, will they be a market in the UK, probabily not as our governments plan is to buy carbon credits from our German friends to the detriment of our own industry, nonsense.

We can at that time know what was and was not a benefit of «cheap» fossil fuels by seeing what benefits people choose freely to give up and what benefits they choose freely to replace them with in an economy with the same net budget (as the government doesn't take a penny of the fees and the buyers get all the dividends).

Shortcomings in the climate change policies of the Australian Government have been brought to light through the initiative of independent Federal Senator Steve Fielding seeking a meeting with Climate Change MInister Penny Wong, at which the Senator posed three basic questions...

-- Southern Ocean Iron Fertilization Experiment (SOFeX)-- The basics of the most recent expedition — Penny Chisholm's site, which lists many professional papers — Paul Falkowski's article (PDF document)-- DOE article: Climate Change Scenarios Compel Studies of Ocean Carbon Storage — Government site for carbon sequestration research — An earlier piece Williams wrote on sequestration — Will Ocean Fertilization To Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere Work?

I watched Penny Wong on the 7:30 report defending the government's emissions trading scheme against the criticism, made here and elsewhere, that initiatives such as the government's home insulation scheme will have no effect except to reduce the price of permits and therefore the costs faced by large emitters.

Every single penny rise is the fault of the previous and coalition governments, their policies, and NGOs like FoE.

From the Government Monitor, Minister for Water Senator Penny Wong says, «Urban water supplies are under increasing pressure from changing population patterns and the emerging effects of climate change... We know we have to use water more wisely.

It costs the government 1.6 cents to produce one penny, which has been made of copper - plated zinc and copper - plated steel since 1997.

Finally, after years of talking, the Canadian government killed the penny in its recent budget.

He's comparing per - capita expenditures for lobbyists («a penny per person») to total expenditures from green groups and government («spend a lot more than a penny per year», note lack of «per person»).