Sentence examples for dispensing grants from inspiring English sources

Washington ended the office's operations in Bolivia last year, after dispensing grants aimed at strengthening departmental governments, which have taken the lead in opposing Mr. Morales.

The new name, Ms. Langsam said, has a "less bureaucratic" sound and, along with a new abstract logo, is intended to evoke the range of services the group provides beyond dispensing grants, like education and arts promotion.

They are working in key positions in school districts and charter-school networks, legislating in state capitals, staffing city halls and statehouses for reform-minded mayors and governors, writing papers for policy groups and dispensing grants from billion-dollar philanthropies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Mr. Pell was best known for devising legislation that created the program that has dispensed grants to tens of millions of poor and middle-class college students.

Even the European commission, which dispensed grants for research and development worth €2.9bn (£2.4bn) to British firms between 2007 and 2011 (and €2.4bn to French companies) directed most of the money to big corporates.

Pickles claimed that Rahman had dispensed grants like a "medieval monarch", though neither the police nor the PwC report Pickles commissioned found evidence of wrongdoing – and Rahman's progressive record is widely acknowledged.

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The onetime warhorse of West Side politics wades worldwide these days, heading her group's efforts in dispensing annual grants of $10,000 to $35,000 to projects like AIDS education and care in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda; agricultural and community development in El Salvador and Honduras; and small-business initiatives for women in Zimbabwe, Peru and Haiti.

The charities at issue are not philanthropies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that dispense grants for medical research but remain independent of any one group of doctors or medical practice.

While the NSF dispenses grants within months, other departments are slowed by vested interests and imposing backlogs of records managed under legacy systems.

Instead, aides to Mr. Bruno told her that the senator was interested in dispensing the grant and offered to bring her on as a co-sponsor.