Sentence examples for boost subsidies from inspiring English sources

State-controlled media quoted Chen Tonghai, the chairman of Sinopec, a state-owned oil producer and refiner, as saying that the tax could be used to boost subsidies for "weak communities" to offset price increases.China worries about the impact of rising prices on a wide range of consumers, but peasants and taxi drivers are foremost among them.

The wonder is that the federal government is falling all over itself to boost subsidies and mandates for this energy source.

The House and Senate farm bill drafts eliminate most direct payments and instead boost subsidies for farmers to buy crop insurance policies that protect against losses from weather or price changes.

The talk may be about a windfall tax on oil companies, but the action will be on boosting subsidies for alternative fuels.

The panel is also considering a measure that would require a biannual report from the state education department on the market rates for child care and the estimated cost of boosting subsidies to cover care from 75percentt of providers.

Meantime, Correa has boosted subsidies for gasoline and flour and for army and police pension funds.

Arab leaders' immediate response of boosting subsidies on food and fuel as well as other social transfers and their hyper-vigilance about protests suggest that these regimes may muddle through.

It would boost federal subsidies from about $7.2 billion this year to about $8.5 billion.

To quell unrest, countries including Indonesia are digging deep to boost food subsidies.

For now, the administration's actions to boost farm subsidies (albeit to levels still lower than in Europe) speak louder than lofty words about cutting them.

"It would be an unfortunate compromise to boost crop subsidies," Mr. Lugar said, "and not retain the advances the Senate has made on improving conservation and nutrition payments".