Sentences with phrase «to public funds»

At the opening of the trial in Rome, the U.S. investment bank the other defendants asked a three - judge panel at the Court of Accounts, which rules on abuses of public funds, to reject the case in an acknowledgement that the judges do not have jurisdiction, Marco Fratini, one of the judges, said.
In fact, in the autumn of 2008, when the rest of the world was scrambling to deal with the fallout of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, Harper made a priority of curbing public funding for political parties.
The private sector has matched public funds dollar for dollar in 2017 to support the Historic Heart of Perth project, which aims to revitalise the east end precinct through public art and streetscape improvements.
Third, to make the post office attractive to private investors, public funds will likely be pumped into the corporation prior to the initial public offering.
This followed news that the Spanish government doesn't intend to inject public funds into the bank, increasing pressure on the lender to merge.
Later chapters offer a detailed peek into how the Canadian media sausage is made, detailing the challenges of offsetting public funding with ad sales, the overwhelming importance of NHL hockey to the CBC's operating budget, Ceeb - style office politics and the uphill battle against the private channels of Corus, Rogers and Bell.
The rub is the public's apparent preference for giving public funds to small companies.
We are okay with public funds being used to help business, so long as the money is directed to the little guy.
A number of other regions, including Scotland and Canada's Ontario, provide public funding for PrEP.
His reported close ties to US presidential candidate Hilary Clinton are not popular in certain corners of the French press, while there are also allegations he used public funds to finance his own presidential campaign.
About a quarter of the money will be from private investors, the rest will be public funds.
«You have to ask, what do you want to use public funds for?»
Setting up this vision, in the face of what public funding institutions expect, has been one of the biggest challenges,» says Gutiérrez.
On Saturday, untold numbers of citizens who support the idea of free scientific inquiry, and enough public funding to pursue it, took to the streets to tell everyone else on the planet they did.
Dozens of private companies have now taken up where government space programs — and the public funding behind them — left off.
Many pundits are demanding conditions be applied to any public funds used to help auto manufacturers, and 40 % of the CEOs in the poll said protecting the Canadian share of North American production is the most crucial requirement.
At first, it invested public funds directly in shipyards and factories because local businessmen and bankers, accustomed to quick returns from trading, shied away from such ventures.
It relies upon 13 expert data sources, including assessments from the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the World Economic Forum, to determine levels of bribery, diversion of public funds, use of public office for private gain and other issues of corruption.
He also predicts an arena will be built eventually, and with substantial public funding.
Owned the Seattle SuperSonics pro basketball team, which moved to Oklahoma in 2006 when he sold it after the city of Seattle refused public funding for a new arena
Not only are the low - interest loans cheaper, but public funding programs also help make some loan requests more palatable to private lenders, who frequently have to put up matching funds.
«The public funds, at least in Pennsylvania, are structured to enable the bank to make a loan that they might not be able to make without the public debt behind them by enhancing the loan - to - value, reducing the risk to [the bank], and then passing on some benefits [to the borrower] in the form of lower interest rates, which help cash - flow issues.»
Even so, many entrepreneurs don't pursue the strategy because of difficulty locating funding sources, which can include states, municipalities and nonprofit groups that dole out public funds.
Public funding requires patience and careful planning, but the savings can make it well worth the effort.
She continued: «They just up and announced that I was prohibited from speaking anyway... I feel like the Constitution is important and that taxpayer - supported universities should not be using public funds to violate American citizens» Constitutional rights.»
Even if they're aware of public funding programs, they often have misconceptions about the types of firms that qualify.
Bear in mind, the process leading up to financing is generally 30 to 60 days longer and potentially more complicated with public funding than with regular credit.
Fashionable little pulquerias are popping up, and the Mexican government is committing public funds to promote production.
For business borrowers, public funding has a number of benefits.
«Treasury Board will not have any discretion to use the funds for any other purpose, as this would be an unauthorized use of public funds,» Farees Nathoo wrote in an email.
The use of public funds to help develop Alberta's economy, once championed by former premier Peter Lougheed, has since fallen out of favour.
The main estimates are one of the mechanisms that actually give departments and agencies the authority to spend public funds.
The plan will span 10 years and cost $ 81 million, which the city hopes to fund through a combination of public funds and donations from private entities.
As a result, emerging businesses legitimately seek public funding far sooner than they used to.
So strapped are they for cash, so inadequate is their public funding, that they would close their doors without philanthropic and corporate money.
Once the momentum of this flow of money gets into full speed, public fund managers search for ways to produce returns that are better than their peers, so the window begins to open for IPOs.
Ms. Mohr is a Director of Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA)-- channelling public funds into leading - edge R&D for GHG mitigation.
It's hard to «move fast and break things» in government, and public funds don't allow for the failure rates that venture capital does.
Holdings of problematic asset - backed commercial paper were restructured, and investors we obliged to accept their losses: no public funds were involved.
Most recently, Ms. Nettles was a Director for Columbia Management Group - where she developed the firm's national Public Fund business strategy.
All parties receive substantial public funding intended to support democracy, but it also means they are in varying degrees highly dependent on money that will disappear with a Conservative majority, making the Tories even more motivated to win and gain an advantage in the election after this one.
«Money manager» capitalism aims to financialize Social Security and Medicare along similar lines, sending a new tsunami of public funds into the stock market to produce capital gains.
Soon we are launching a public funding round on Invesdor's platform.
SoftBank's latest Vision Fund, set up with support from Saudi Arabia's PID public fund, Apple, Qualcomm, among others, has given it scope to splurge and indulge in «ambush» investments.
Still, Skyrocketing college costs, cuts to public funding for higher education, stagnant incomes and the growth in the college - going population are largely to blame for the uptick in outstanding student loans over the past decade.
An accurate count assures that every community receives its fair share of public funds for schools, hospitals, daycare centers and roads.
Federally licensed Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) access private and public funds when lending to small business owners.
Stursberg brought a business approach to the CBC, which in practice translated into transforming it into a private network backed with public funds.
The revenue that results from residents» annual property tax payments goes toward public funding for the state, Dakota County and its local jurisdictions as well.
Inasmuch as the optics of employing a nanny with public funds after the UCCB debate might have been a controversy waiting to happen, Trudeau, who makes $ 334,800 as Prime Minister, and the Liberals might have let one get past them.
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