Sentences with phrase «ploughed millions»

The GMB union, which like Unite has ploughed millions of pounds into Labour coffers, also backs Trident renewal.

Wanting Wenger gone is simple minded, he is doing the best he can with what he has, and nothing bar a new chairman who is willing to plough millions and millions into the club is going to change that.

The powerful union boss said he and the leaders of the other main trade unions - which plough millions of pounds into Labour's coffers every year - wanted to sit down with the party's warring factions to end the in - fighting.

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Heilongjiang Province is also mulling expanding its soybean cultivation to 11.5 million mu (7,666 square kilometers) of rotation plough land and providing subsidies to the farmers involved.

In 2015 The Australian Financial Review reported that Mr Harvey was taking steps to plough as much as $ 80 million into the well regarded Coomboona Holsteins operation north west of Shepparton.

It has raised $ 25 million already, which it is ploughing into firms like Beyond Meat and Purple Carrot, a vegan home - delivery service.

Despite ploughing # 1.5 million into the Remain campaign, banks including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan have pledged to ensure the City of London remains the world's dominant financial centre after the UK voted to leave the EU.

And we've seen incredible sums ploughed into pet projects - more than # 100 million spent on installing elected police commissioners — money that could have paid for 3,000 new police constables - # 600 million added to the free schools budget in November — money that could pay for the extra 100,000 primary school places we so desperately need - and # 1.8 billion set aside for the costs of NHS reorganisation — half of which would keep 6,000 nurses in post for three years

The airport expansion project was subsequently given to the Chinese company, which will plough in US $ 800 million.

Last year, openDemocracy's reporting on Banks's finances prompted Labour MP Ben Bradshaw to ask in parliament about «the role of dark money in the EU referendum» and the Electoral Commission is inquiring into the ultimate source of the # 8.4 million Banks ploughed into his Leave.EU campaign.

Earlier this month, for example, the UK government announced it will plough an extra # 50 million per academic year into teaching STEM subjects.

It was assumed that the cloud is relatively calm, and therefore that the wind would blow in the same direction for millions of years as the sun ploughed on through.

In the end, «it seems likely we'll get the permit,» says astronomer Robert Kirshner, head of science programs at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto, California, which has so far ploughed $ 180 million into the TMT.

Superior has ploughed over # 20 million back into the business since 2012 in order to secure its future and maintain its position as a supplier of choice.

Labour's Tristram Hunt blamed the government for «ploughing hundreds of millions of taxpayers» money on free schools in areas where there are no shortages of school places».

«In the face of such overwhelming evidence, it therefore beggars belief that the Government has announced it will plough # 50 million to expand the number of places at existing selective grammar schools.

Northern Powergrid, one of the six distribution network operators (DNOs) responsible for delivering power across regions of the UK, is to plough # 1.9 million (US$ 2.53 million) into the creation of a smart energy grid across its network, allowing its eight million customers to trade power and services using their home solar, battery systems and electric vehicles (EVs).

He wishes to plough back $ 10 million of ICO proceeds in the development of processors.

Or worse still, in some books I had to plough through pages and pages of the author's anecdotal reminiscences about how many millions of dollars worth of real estate he had sold because he had something called a «positive mental attitude.»