Sentence examples for approve grants from inspiring English sources

Significantly, the exchange slightly weakened the requirement that shareholders approve grants of stock options, permitting companies to offer some options to lure new employees without a shareholder vote.

That bill would create an election commission to study local voting procedures and approve grants to the states of less than $100 million to modernize voting equipment.

He said evidence to the committee revealed that if ministers appeared reluctant to approve grants to the charity then "Dear Dave" letters would be written by Ms Batmanghelidjh directly to the Prime Minister or his advisers and money would be paid regardless.

Alicia Philipp, Women And's board chairman, said that "having women making recommendations on grants has heightened awareness in the philanthropic community of women's and girls' organizations and their needs and made the boards of trustees, which approve grants and which are mostly male, understand that these organizations are not as risky as they had thought.

The ASTF is governed by a Steering Committee (SC) and a Fund Assembly (FA), which set priorities and approve grants.

This creates serious constraints on what activities the Fund can support even after scientific merit has been demonstrated, since the Fund "can only approve grants if the full amount required for the first two years is covered by pledges from donors in the calendar year of the approval" [ 28](p. 34).

Now, public opinion polls show that the vast majority of the state's residents approve granting illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, though they are opposed to offering them the same benefits for public services as legal residents.

The Challenge's overall approach — supporting many diverse education projects rather than a coordinated school improvement strategy — had been established before Mr. Obama was named board chairman, and the board came under immediate pressure to approve grant proposals quickly.

Boards need to move away from the operating function of approving grants to focus on setting strategy and evaluating outcomes.

The program, administered by the Empire State Development Corporation, had previously been authorized to spend $481 million on the grants, but the approved grants far exceeded that amount.

Officials of the agency, the Empire State Development Corporation, say the program drew so many qualified applicants that the total amount of the approved grants, $535.3 million, exceeded the $481 million that the agency established for the program.