Sentence examples for double funds from inspiring English sources

Last Friday, Parliament sent an anti-austerity message by passing a regional spending bill to nearly double funds to Madeira and the Azores.

The US and 18 other countries have pledged to double funds for clean energy research to a total of $20bn over five years, boosting a parallel initiative by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and increasing the prospects for successful agreement at the Paris climate negotiations that start on Monday.

Only last year did Bush capitulate and double funding to $13bn over five years.

The Greens have supported the calls to double funding and extend it for 10 years.

Mr Cameron will also double funding to help more than 300,000 couples save their relationships as he looks to tackle poverty by reducing the number of separated parents over the next five years.

Corruption, which includes nepotism, bribery, fraud, kick-backs and double funding, can divert resources, feed conflict and increase basic costs of services for the poor – undermining the very work of NGOs.

The leaders are expected to pledge to more than double funding for the EU's Triton maritime mission, which patrols Italy's territorial waters, and to say that the operation's search-and-rescue operations are to be extended.

The remaining components would double funding for the Australian industry participation authority, create a national steel supplier advocate and "ensure Australia's anti-dumping system has the right powers and penalties in place".

The prime minister has promised to double funding for dementia research, while the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, announced a screening programme to pick up the signs earlier, as campaigners warned of a crisis triggered by the increasing age of the population.

The UK will aim to double funding for dementia research by 2025 from the 2015 target of £66m, David Cameron says.

The goal is to double funding for the NIH over a 5-year period, which began in 1998.