Sentence examples for Grantee from inspiring English sources
noun
The person to whom something is granted.
Even in the event that the courts eventually rule in favour of the land grantee, the local police are not always willing to enforce eviction notices.As the floodwaters recede, it becomes more apparent that last summer's disaster is not solely responsible for the hardships faced by Sindh's villagers.
One grantee, the Centre for Jewish-Arab Economic Development, runs schemes to lessen job discrimination against Arab-Israelis, who, though a fifth of the population, contribute less than a tenth of GDP.Another big donor, the New Israel Fund (NIF), has also largely dropped co-existence.
Under its terms, the president determined the suitability of the recipients and issued the grants, usually by a formula of 160 acres to each head of household and 80 acres to each unmarried adult, with the stipulation that no grantee could alienate his land for 25 years.
In 1513 he took part in the bloody conquest of Cuba and, as priest-encomendero (land grantee), received an allotment of Indian serfs.
In the later Middle Ages letters patent, which restricted the succession to male heirs of the grantee, gradually superseded other methods of creating earls.
After the Culture Shed, the New York Aquarium is the city's second largest grantee for cultural capital funds this year, with $15 million budgeted for its restoration after Hurricane Sandy and $3 million for its continuing Ocean Wonders project, part of a four-year $108 million grant.
"Orbán needed a mythical enemy which cannot really fight back and OSF organisations have been consciously demonised," said Tamás Bodoky, of the investigative journalism website Átlátszó, an OSF-grantee which is also 50% funded from crowdfunding.
Together with partners and grantees, The Rockefeller Foundation strives to catalyze and scale transformative innovations, create unlikely partnerships that span sectors, and take risks others cannot – or will not.
Marcia Brown of ACCION International, one of the Gates grantees, says that accounts designated as being for a particular purpose, such as children's school fees, are likely to be part of the product mix.Sendhil Mullainathan, a Harvard economist, points out that there is often a big gap between what people say they'd like to save and what they end up saving.
Despite the Wellcome Trust's requirement that its grantees publish in open-access journals, only 70% do so.
Land-grabbers also prey on the land grantees by filing spurious legal appeals at the local courts.
