Sentences with phrase «sum of public money»

Second, such a huge sum of public money must be spent wisely, and on the right things.

Ukip entitled to money after winning 4 million votes but row breaks out over whether the party's only MP should accept the large sum of public money

But lining his pockets with vast sums of public money is the least of the problems with Trump's conduct in this regard.

With such huge sums of public money at stake a Conservative government will make sure we have the professional financial controls the taxpayer has a right to expect.

Educational researcher Gerald Bracey, author of Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered, writes in Stanford magazine that «NCLB aims to shrink the public sector, transfer large sums of public money to the private sector, weaken or destroy two Democratic power bases — the teachers» unions — and provide vouchers to let students attend private schools at public expense.»

Not exact matches

Although transaction fees are dwarfed by the sums private - equity firms make from money - management fees or from selling companies through initial public offerings, they can represent a nice chunk of cash.

The vast sums of money involved can compromise legitimate economies and have a direct impact on governments through the corruption of public officials.

The use by the respondents of the aforesaid false, misleading and deceptive statements, representations and practices has had, and now has, the capacity and tendency to mislead members of the public into the erroneous and mistaken belief that said statements and representations were and are true and into the investment of substantial sums of money to participate in the respondents» multilevel marketing program and the purchase of substantial quantities of respondents» products by reason of said erroneous and mistaken belief.

Respondents are now, for some time last past have, engaged in the advertising, offering for sale, sale and distribution of cosmetics, toiletries and associated items and distributorships and franchises to the public, and are inducing, and have induced, persons to invest substantial sums of money in respondents» multilevel marketing program as hereinafter more fully described.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

I would not be surprised to see this price to continue to drop as Sunday approaches with large sums of money coming in on «Yes» from the public.

Their now - infamous screaming match after a 4 - 1 victory of Palermo in February and, the subsequent benching of the player for the first leg of the Champions League Round of 16 against Porto, almost certainly had a more long - term effect than was ever let on in public, and I would bet large sums of money that their relationship turning toxic was the most important catalyst in this divorce.

FG specifically alleged that he acted in breach of extant provisions of the Money Laundering Act, the EFCC Act and the Public Procurement Act, for receiving huge sums of money from the office of the NSA, for unsubstantiated purMoney Laundering Act, the EFCC Act and the Public Procurement Act, for receiving huge sums of money from the office of the NSA, for unsubstantiated purmoney from the office of the NSA, for unsubstantiated purpose.

A loophole in electoral law in the United Kingdom means that although anyone donating even small sums of money to a political party has to declare this as a matter of public record, those loaning money at commercial rates of interest did not have to make a public declaration.

Equally, while recognising that public spending cuts need to be applied across a variety of areas, there has been no clamour to cut the relatively modest sums distributed through Short money.

Chief Oyegun who was represented by APC National Deputy Chairman (South), Engineer Segun Oni, said the President's widely lauded war on corruption has started to yield fruit, just as astronomical sums of money have and continue to be recovered from corrupt public officials with several prosecutions carried out by a newly re-energized EFCC.

He was eventually charged with money laundering and criminal diversion of huge sums of public fund before the Federal High Court and the Federal Capital Territory High Court at Abuja.

The change comes as members of the British Parliament are under fire for spending huge sums of taxpayer money through their public accounts on such expenses as cleaning a moat and having light bulbs installed in their homes.

Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, James Klutse Avedzi, has lamented the huge sums of money the state had lost over the years with regards to unearned salaries paid staff of the various Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs).

The source said, «The huge sum of money was not the only thing recovered from that building, although that is what has remained in public domain since that EFCC operation.

The Conservative press office said: «W e are not promising huge sums of new public spending in this manifesto because we believe in a strong economy founded on sound money.

To this end, Foley and Malloy, who both are using the state's public financing system, also both have spent significant sums of money out of state.

Kaloyeros contacted this reporter by Facebook messenger in response to an article published on September 29 that detailed how a number of officials and observers are concerned with a lack of checks and balances over Kaloyeros and the feeling that he operates with complete impunity and little regard to the fact that he is a public employee handling major sums of taxpayer money.

He also ruled out for the first time the option of taking public financing for his campaign, money that would have saved him the time - consuming task of raising vast sums but would have dramatically limited the amount he would have been able to raise.

«By this Press Release, we inform the public (especially the news media) that the said sums of money and / or the apartment where the sums of money were found do not belong to our client.

Cuomo's decision to empanel the 25 - member group followed a year of indictments illustrative of Albany's infamous culture of corruption, during which public officials were found to have attempted bribery and fraud in exchange for career advancements or varying sums of money.

He pointed to flaws in New York City's public campaign finance system, with the ability of anonymous committees to donate large sums of money.

I fail to see how Haringey Council's secretive actions are in the public interest, given the astonishing sum of taxpayers» money involved and the immense public concern and upset at the Baby P scandal.

The dysfunction stems from a Spanish peculiarity: In the national science budget, the government not only includes lump sums to public research institutes and competitive grants to research teams, but also a pot of money aimed at supporting companies, universities, and public research institutions with loans.

I deeply admire affluent individuals who give away gargantuan sums of money for the public good, especially to K — 12 education.

This is not to say that we should never increase public funding to schools; numerous states in this country allocate paltry sums of money to children who need it the most, and in these instances funding should be increased.

Contrary to the arguments of those opposed to school choice, the result of students departing is generally an increased sum of money (per capita) for those students remaining in the public school.

Charter schools like Rocketship spend enormous sums of money to help charter - friendly candidates get elected to public school boards — something public schools can't do.

Now California, in fairness, is listed as a state with «mixed results», but why would the governor promote the growth of this sector in his state while the traditional public schools are in such dire financial straits were it not for the huge sums of money dangled before him?

Joshua Pechthalt, president of the California Federation of Teachers, said about the appeal, «We are disappointed but not surprised that they are continuing to spend large sums of money on the suit and the PR campaign attached to it smearing teachers and public education.»

Vouchers — the idea that the state would give families a sum of money that they could use to enroll their child at the public or private school of their choice — had been largely ignored until its revival by 1960s liberals.

Vogel may go out in public and present a warm and fuzzy persona, but in reality, CTA is not about «working together» but rather it is about protecting the job of every public school teacher (no matter how incompetent), acquiring large sums of money and power and killing any reasonable education reform that would diminish its influence.

To sum up: it is a mistake to think of public domain books as an easy way to earn money.

For the small expense of setting up a website, unscrupulous scammers are ripping off members of the public for large sums of money.

I don't feel so conquered by the idea of success being huge sums of money and public recognition.

> The result is that now we have huge sums of wasted money spent on a nonexistent issue, a public who views sciences as being completely discredited, and public policies that are as destructive as they are absurd.

The sums of money being poured into hydrogen station deployments are staggering, mostly raised through public - private partnerships.

The sums of money being poured in hydrogen station deployments is staggering, mostly raised through public - private partnerships.

The taxpayers and local governments also need to spend a huge sum of money to clean this trash off the streets and beaches to protect the health of public, avoid lost tourism revenue from filthy beaches, and prevent flooding from trash blocked in water and sewage drains.

The state oil company has long been used by the government to borrow huge sums in a highly opaque manner and with little public accountability for the use of the money.19

This scaremongering claim by Gore is a perfect example of what presenter Marc Morano means by the «Climate Hustle»: just like in a card game where tricksters use sleight - of - hand, distraction techniques, and dirty tricks in order to con the mark (the mug punter) out of his money, so the alarmist establishment is withholding key details and presenting false or distorted information in order to extract vast sums from the gullible public.

I would be willing to bet a large sum of money that if the review process were made public that you would see reviews bloating with irrelevant «explanatory information» and «background»..

We are public institutions and we take large sums of money from our students to prepare them to enter the legal profession.

British Columbia's Elections Act currently requires anyone engaged in election advertising to provide their full name and full address to an on - line public register regardless of how trivial a sum of money is spent on the advertising.

It is at this stage that the lure of litigation is at its most powerful, offering everything a litigant yearns for: complete vindication, outright success, public defeat and humiliation of the other side, and vast sums of money!