Sentence examples for block grants from inspiring English sources

Critics described the allotments as block grants.

But block grants won't get us there.

That is where selected block grants would make sense.

Those federal block grants did not bring salvation, either.

Two-thirds of Mississippi's block grants have not yet been spent.

The radical overhaul of the nation's welfare policies in 1996 handed states lump-sum block grants.

"If we don't, we will lose our federal block grants for substance-abuse services.

Block grants allow the central government to play a role in local policy without smothering it.

Mr. Reagan consolidated dozens of federal aid programs into nine block grants.

Passage of Federal programs like general revenue-sharing & community block grants were threatened.

-- Help for the Poor and Elderly: Community Services Block Grants were cut by $305 million below the FY10 level.