Sentences with phrase «provided substantial funding»

The government provided substantial funding to the claimant groups to develop their position and expectations of the negotiations and to assist them in arriving at an informed decision in relation to the proposed development.

The government has provided substantial funding to ALRM to facilitate meetings of Indigenous communities throughout the state to consider options of a state - wide resolution of native title issues.

To help CanLII approach (or in some cases far exceed) a targeted case law depth of at least 10 years for superior and appellate courts, Canada's provincial law foundations have provided substantial funding grants for the scanning, digitizing and publishing of pre-2003 case law.

Sini also must navigate the strained relations between Schaffer, who controls the nomination, and Bellone, who can provide substantial funding.

Fourth Place: The Koch Brothers for funding the promotion of bad climate science Fourth place goes to fossil - fuel billionaires Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries, Inc., who provide substantial funding to groups and politicians who deny the science of climate change....

Norway and Germany are providing substantial funding at the moment, but the amounts available internationally are a small percentage of what is needed for a successful mechanism.

Civil society also called the SBSTA to empower women and farmers and enhance their knowledge while contributing to mitigate climate change, and requested the SBTA to expand dialogue on agriculture and food security and provide substantial funding to respond to the need of farmers.

Of these 12 programs, only four provide substantial funds to serve children: special education preschool grants, also known as Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA; Head Start; the Child Care and Development Block Grant, or CCDBG; and Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds.

Two programs — Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, and the Social Services Block Grant, or SSBG — provide substantial funding for child care, but the amount is still a small portion of the total grant.

Not exact matches

This «generated substantial revenues for Wells Fargo» and provided «critical seed money that kept the funds afloat by boosting market share,» the complaint said.

They conferred substantial financial benefits on Retrophin's already highly - compensated founder at Retrophin's expense and provided no benefit to Retrophin other than a release of claims relating to actions that Shkreli undertook in his capacity as the manager of the MSMB Funds.

Still, I did increase the Fund's call option purchases near the end of the week, and expect to add to that position toward 2 % of assets if the market clears its overbought condition by a decline of a few percent further (provided that we don't also observe a substantial deterioration of internal market action).

While the Strategic Growth Fund does have enough call options presently to reduce our hedge by about 40 % in the event of a substantial continued advance (they currently provide us with a 10 - 15 % exposure to market fluctuations), that position still amounts to only about 1 % of assets.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

For decades, many nations have provided substantial, sometimes hidden, subsidies to artificial feeding, while not funding breastfeeding support.

The volume of advertising companies place suggests that is not only to promote products (usually with unsubstantiated claims), but provides a cover for channeling funds to the organisation, substantial enough to make it dependent on the income.

But, CUNY needs a substantial increase in state funding to ensure the quality of the education that it currently provides, and far more than that to provide free, quality education to its entire student body,

That's a tough outcome for Massey, whose candidacy has adopted a sort of inevitability argument based in part on his ability to provide a substantial amount of self - funding.

Taxpayers already write a substantial cheque to politicians for so - called «short money», a fund for political advisors who are provide the political counterbalance to the civil service for those in opposition.

By providing a substantial increase in funding for opportunity programs, we are continuing to raise the bar and deliver the support students need to achieve success.»

In these positions, research findings were an essential part of trying to provide practical policy choices in health services delivery, and substantial external research funds were made available to address tropical diseases and other health issues.

In addition, the pharmaceutical industry provides tens of millions of dollars to the agency in the form of user fees — a substantial portion of FDA's funding.

The BBSRC - funded ARK - Genomics facility — which is part of Edinburgh Genomics at the University of Edinburgh — provided a substantial body of sequence data, including information on which genes are expressed in a spectrum of 40 different tissues.

As they take length of membership into account, DB funds can provide a more substantial retirement benefit than standard accumulation schemes receiving only employer contributions.

President Obama has called for increased funding to support NCLB, and Congress has provided substantial stimulus money for schools.

For the RRSG's proposed research program to develop to the point that it can actually improve comprehension outcomes, the research program infrastructure will need to be bolstered in a number of ways and be provided with substantial, long - term funding.

«Although this will increase the guarantee capacity of the fund, including capacity for charter schools which tend to maintain weaker credit profiles, the program's substantial assets continue to provide strong coverage and default tolerance, which is reflective of the Aaa rating,» Nichols said.

Senior Corps» Foster Grandparents program provides an opportunity for volunteers age 55 and older to serve as mentors and tutors for students.39 In 2016, an estimated 24,000 Foster Grandparents volunteers served approximately 200,000 students.40 Similarly, in 2016, AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers were approved to provide capacity - building assistance to more than 2,900 education - related project sites.41 Cutting funding for the CNCS would mean eliminating a substantial amount of necessary support for traditional public and public charter schools and would hurt low - income students across the country.

Fails to provide parents with protection from substantial school budget cuts: Sen. Alexander's bill eliminates the ESEA's current «maintenance of effort» provision, which ensures that districts that receive Title I funding — designed to help low - income and disadvantaged students — maintain approximately the same spending levels from year to year.

The state should put substantial funding behind these collaborations, to provide incentives and support for university teacher preparation programs to work directly with high - need schools.

To implement an entirely new funding system, as the Task Force is considering, the state would need to provide substantial «hold - harmless funding» to ensure that no district's finances would be negatively impacted.

NHTSA provides $ 5M / year in funds to support the development and testing of the DADSS technologies, however, DADSS research faces substantial technical challenges in order to reach performance objectives necessary for large scale implementation.

On the other hand a well sized debt fund will provide sufficient options to the fund manager if substantial redemption requests are there.

House Representative Jim McGovern (D) applauded the College Cost Reduction Act stating that it «provides such substantial increases for the Pell Grant program, initiatives to help control college costs, increased funding for Perkins loans... and restructuring the way in which students repay their loans.»

The Fund buys at the time the near - term outlook is poor provided the company is well capitalized, if our analysis indicates that the common shares are available at a low price earnings ratio relative to long - term future earning power and / or are selling at a substantial discount from an adjusted, and measurable, net asset value.

The October 14th regulatory implementation date is leading to substantial outflows from prime and, perhaps unintentionally, tax - exempt money market funds, but the new rules also provide one of the few clear opportunities for investors.

Asset Class Analysis Below, we provide examples of several types of fixed income investments and the standards we utilize to determine which securities are considered eligible for investment: Mortgage - Backed Securities In keeping with our commitment to increasing access to capital to those historically underserved, the Domini Social Bond Fund has, since its inception, maintained a substantial, long - term commitment to affordable housing primarily through the purchase of securities backed by pools of residential mortgages.

The Firm may submit a shareholder proposal on behalf of an Investment Fund only if permitted by the Investment Fund's governing documents or by agreement between the Firm and the Investment Fund and if the Firm believes that the proposal would provide a substantial overall benefit to the Investment Fund.

Rob Anzalone and Jeff Wolk of FENWICK KEATS real estate provided a substantial donation to help fund AC&C's first Mobile Adoption Center, allowing the organization to bring hundreds of dogs and cats to neighborhoods across the five boroughs.

Still, the loss of City - funded vouchers — which provided a substantial portion of overall revenue for many TNR programs — is taking its toll.

Maddie's Fund was very instrumental in building most of the major animal shelters and rescue groups in the Valley (including AAWL) by providing substantial grants for many years through their «Maddie's Project in Maricopa County» which concluded in 2009.

Substantial support is provided by George W. Ahl III, Irving Harris Foundation, The Sol LeWitt Fund for Artist Work, Danny and Audrey Meyer, Ronald A. Pizzuti, and The Rudin Family.

Substantial support is provided by the Irving Harris Foundation, The Sol LeWitt Fund for Artist Work, the Henry Luce Foundation, Melissa S. Meyer, Ronald A. Pizzuti, The Rudin Family, the Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust, John L. Thomson, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Tishman Speyer.

Substantial support is provided by Martha and Bruce Atwater, Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, The Henry Luce Foundation, Ronald A. Pizzuti, The Rudin Family, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Tishman Speyer, the Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust, and The Sol LeWitt Fund for Artist Work.

However, she provided substantial continued support for it through the foundation she funded, along with art she bequeathed.

Substantial support is provided by The Buhl Foundation, Irving Harris Foundation, The Sol LeWitt Fund for Artist Work, The Henry Luce Foundation, Danny and Audrey Meyer, Ronald A. Pizzuti, and The Rudin Family.

Substantial support is provided by Raymond Learsy and Melva Bucksbaum, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Melissa S. Meyer, Ronald A. Pizzuti, The Rudin Family, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Leslie and Howard Zemsky, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust and the Sol LeWitt Fund for Artist Work.

Substantial support is provided by Charina Endowment Fund, Mark di Suvero, Sidney E. Frank Foundation, Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, Agnes Gund, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, Ivana Mestrovic, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Smith, Plant Specialists, and Spacetime C.C.

Substantial support is provided by Erica and Anand Desai, the Irving Harris Foundation, The Sol LeWitt Fund for Artist Work, the Henry Luce Foundation, Danny and Audrey Meyer, Ronald A. Pizzuti, The Rudin Family, the Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust, John L. Thomson, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Tishman Speyer.

When I say the UN sponsors the IPCC, I mean it provides all the substantial funding and resources for the process.