Sentence examples for aid a project from inspiring English sources

Early in Wolfowitz's presidency, he announced that his priorities would include not just reducing poverty, especially in Africa (a focus of bank activity for decades), but also fighting corruption among governments that received bank aid (a project introduced by Wolfowitz's predecessor, James Wolfensohn).

Also in 1998, the state announced a temporary measure to give districts 10percentt more aid for a project on top of the amount of state aid they were getting, he said.

Sales of bottled water support Pump Aid, a social project in Africa.

The team trying to recover the engine for evidence was aided by a project undertaken by scientists in recent years, in which they used sonar to scan and map every square foot of the Hudson River more than six feet deep.

They were brought to London in 1710 because the British were eager to secure Iroquois aid for a projected invasion of French Canada.

For 13 countries Ms Celasun and Mr Walliser looked at the relation between government spending and aid used to expand the budget (as distinct from aid earmarked for a project).

Lack of security in poor countries means that after aid donors complete a project aimed to combat hunger, the local thugs, caste leaders, political cronies and other power holders in the Third World, simply take over.

The authority is also preparing to ask the city and state to contribute $300 million in additional aid to help close a projected budget shortfall of nearly $900 million.

While the World Service serves a useful function for many people in the global south, rebadging it as an aid project is a sleight of hand that will mean diverting resources from 'real' aid in the longer term.

But this was an aid project with a difference: every step of the way would be blogged, reported or filmed on a dedicated Guardian website.

There are also suspicions that Mr Suzuki may have interfered in an aid project to build a hydroelectric power station in Kenya.In this section Not a pariah, a friend After the slaughter, what hope?