Sentence examples for big subsidies from inspiring English sources

These arrived in force in the 1970s, helped by big subsidies from General Pinochet's dictatorship.

The bad news: big subsidies for ethanol (though Obama is unusually frank about the drawbacks of corn ethanol); big subsidies for the white whale of "clean coal"; big subsidies for nuclear power.

Environmental and consumer groups criticized the bill, saying it gave big subsidies to energy companies.

Like his predecessors, he has maintained big subsidies to Germany's inefficient and heavily polluting brown-coal industry.

The cash-strapped receive big subsidies, and insurers are barred from charging more to those who are already sick.

Some states offer big subsidies, helping to defray much of the initial cost of a home system.

Good perspective — that we are giving employers a big subsidy.

"From my perspective, if you subsidize carbon capture and storage, that's a big subsidy for coal.

Iran has just begun the second phase of a big subsidy overhaul, raising the price of petrol, gas and electricity.

President George Bush's budget, in February, proposed big subsidy cuts for those lending through government-backed programmes.

Giving the fossil fuel industry free "waste disposal" services was the same as giving them a big subsidy.