Sentence examples for aid to communities from inspiring English sources

Reid, the Democratic majority leader in the Senate, couldn't just stand back and relish the recent spectacle of House Republicans making callous fools of themselves by stalling aid to communities walloped by Hurricane Sandy.

And in the modern era, the most important cash comes from taking people's tax dollars and distributing them in the form of federal aid to communities hard-hit by a disaster.

In addition to banning the use, manufacture, and transfer of cluster munitions, the treaty bound signatories to destroy existing stores of cluster munitions within 8 years, to clear areas contaminated with cluster submunitions within 10 years, and to provide aid to communities affected by their use.

The two major events on his public schedule that day were a bill signing authorizing $800 million in state aid to communities to protect drinking water sources and a new executive order that tightened the accounting practices of state agencies and authorities.

In his January ruling, Justice DeGrasse ordered Mr. Pataki and the Legislature to simplify the bewildering array of formulas the state uses to parcel out school aid to communities around the state -- a reflection, more than anything else, of political deal-making -- and to create a new system based on what districts actually need.

Justice DeGrasse also ordered the governor and the Legislature to simplify the bewildering array of formulas the state uses to parcel out school aid to communities around the state -- a reflection, more than anything else, of political deal-making -- and to create a new system based on what districts actually need.

He is expected to highlight provisions that direct $2 billion in federal aid to community colleges and increase the maximum Pell grant for students from low-income families.

California has cut nearly $400 million in aid to community colleges over the past two years, and recently cut another $400 million in financing for the next academic year.

His record, more activist than any recent predecessor's, includes greatly expanding the federal government's role in granting college loans, increasing aid to community colleges, and even taking steps to try to stem soaring tuition.

Conservative activists want government in every instance to achieve more by doing drastically less, while those entrusted with public office must grapple with the effects of cutting health care for the elderly or aid to community colleges.

Although just over one-half as many students attended community schools as religious private schools on the state fisc, the state spent over $1 million more -- $9.4 million -- on students in community schools than on students in religious private schools because per-pupil aid to community schools is more than double the per-pupil aid to private schools under the voucher program.