Sentence examples for considerable subsidies from inspiring English sources

A healthy transit system is essential to the economic, environmental and physical well-being of the New York region, justifying considerable subsidies from taxpayers to supplement fare revenues.

A major part of the financing for elementary education is now met by sources other than the central government, though the government does provide considerable subsidies to schools in difficult financial situations.

The largest polluters — the coal and steel industries that have driven Australia's remarkable economic run of the past several years — would most likely bear the brunt of the burden but receive considerable subsidies to remain competitive.

In addition, considerable subsidies allow consumers to pay a mere third of the "real" price of butane gas, in particular.

And they too required considerable subsidies at the beginning.

The merged company retained the obligation to operate dining services on the trains, which throughout the 1980s necessitated considerable subsidies from NSB.

Its plans included a considerable subsidy of railroad intermodal operation, including TOFC.

All of this is done with considerable subsidy from the public purse; astonishing in these times of austerity.

Whittingdale said: "It is a poll tax, it's actually worse than the poll tax because with the poll tax, if you were on a very low income, you got a considerable subsidy, you only paid 20%.

"It's actually worse than a poll tax because under the poll tax, if you were on a very low income you would get a considerable subsidy," he said.

"At a time when the budgets of universities are under great pressure, it is unacceptable that the Government has issued an open access policy that will require considerable subsidy from research budgets," said Adrian Bailey, Member of Parliament and chair of the House of Commons Businesss, Innovation and Skills Committee, which issued the report.