Sentence examples for dollars to projects from inspiring English sources
It's a troubling prospect to give millions of taxpayer dollars to projects that are also generating millions in developer fees".
In 2013, supporters gave four hundred and eighty million dollars to projects on Kickstarter alone — about three and a half times the N.E.A.'s budget for 2013, after sequestration.
Mr. Bush vigorously defended his proposal to give the secretary of homeland security broad powers to redirect millions of dollars to projects without Congressional approval, something the executive branch does not usually enjoy.
Short of a merger or an outright sale, few moves would seem more drastic than outsourcing the search business to Google and reassigning its people and dollars to projects like reinvigorating the Yahoo portal, buying hot start-ups and taking other initiatives that would differentiate Yahoo from the Internet search leader.
With less money to spare, funding agencies like NSF tend to get more conservative and hand out dollars to projects they feel are most likely to succeed, according to Spafford.
The funding website has become "the new black" thanks to the thousands of individuals who pledge millions of dollars to projects in a variety of creative fields.
Earmarks are provisions in spending bills that direct taxpayer dollars to pet projects in lawmakers' districts or states.
In the beginning, Kickstarter seemed primarily like a venue for upstart bands or small theater companies to raise a few thousand dollars to get projects off the ground.
His history of steering hundreds of millions of dollars to favored projects back home earned him the opposition of some in the Tea Party move- ment.
Another is Congress' 2011 ban on earmarks, Bonica said, which prohibited members from routing federal dollars to pet projects in their home districts.
"You've heard about some of these pet projects, they really don't make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good," Palin said.
