Sentence examples for an effective subsidy from inspiring English sources

This has resulted in an effective subsidy of the development of cable systems by local broadcasters.

This exacerbates global health inequalities, resulting in an effective subsidy from low- to high-income countries.

And, of course, they are the beneficiaries of the council tax, a modified version of the poll tax, which is an effective subsidy to the wealthiest.

At the last minute, however, Mr. Bernanke deleted a reference to the exchange rate being an "effective subsidy" for Chinese exports, out of fear that it could be used as a pretext for a trade lawsuit against China.

Two senators who want to keep any bank from being too large — Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, and David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana — have asked the Government Accountability Office to study whether big banks get an effective subsidy because investors think they are too big to be allowed to fail, and therefore are willing to accept lower interest rates.

Ohio manufacturers are unable to compete when China grants enormous subsidies to foreign investors and misaligns its currency, which Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke calls "an effective subsidy".

The legal objection of the commission, however, is that this sort of tax privilege represents an unfair effective subsidy – or "state aid" – which distorts competition because it is not available to other companies.

Makes sense to me, but if you're an oil executive scarcely being charged for the global damage your industry causes (an effective annual subsidy, says the International Monetary Fund, of nearly $2 trillion, money that would be better spent subsidizing nonpolluting energy sources), responsible to your shareholders and making a fortune, would you start erecting windmills?

The Coalition is under intense pressure from the anti-windfarm lobby and also from many of its own MPs to take much tougher action, either banning new windfarms entirely or abolishing the renewable energy target that provides the industry with an effective federal subsidy.

As a result, if you look at postwar laws, they were designed to yield an effective public subsidy to journals in an effort to try to provide the widest range of opinion, information and so on.

First, this will limit the cost of the subsidy and/or allow a more generous, and therefore likely more effective, subsidy.