Sentences with phrase «touted as a boon»

Committee members heard dueling presentations on the district's use in Tennessee in recent years following a $ 500 million federal grant, with at least one district leader in Tennessee touting it as a boon for students, despite middling numbers reported by Vanderbilt University education researcher Gary Henry.

Apple provides free software, IBookAuthor, which allows you to embed audio and video and is generally touted as a boon to textbook writers.

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And Congressional Republicans are touting their new finalized tax bill as a wage - boosting, job - creating boon to the middle class, as well as a means of simplifying the tax system.

His government has touted the pipeline as a means of ensuring North American energy security and a boon to the Canadian economy.

Crapo touts the bill as one that aims to help consumers gain easier access to credit and as a boon to regional banks by freeing them from burdensome regulations.

But he banned natural gas hydrofracking, which many (mostly Republican) upstate politicians touted as a potential economic boon.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo had touted the new casinos as an economic boon to Upstate.

This is again being touted by members of your Conference as being a boon for progressives.

High population growth is touted by the Government as a great boon for our prosperity; it makes us richer, but the Government argues as if it makes us poorer.