Sentence examples for election grants from inspiring English sources

Those cuts include $75 million in election grants; $29 million to help rural communities develop broadband networks; $30 million in unneeded Smithsonian renovation money; $250 million for a reading program;, and $650 million in added highway spending.

The fact that Blair won three general elections, granting Labour its most sustained period of government in the modern era, is not just an inconvenient truth.

A growing number of the smaller countries are taking hesitant steps towards political liberalisation: freer elections, granting women the vote, releasing political prisoners, allowing more freedom for the press.Nobody is breaking out the champagne yet.

In a rare and candid interview, President Bashar al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal last week that he would push through political reforms this year aimed at initiating municipal elections, granting more power to non-governmental organisations and establishing a new media law.

Rather than relying on the 14th Amendment, which only indirectly protects voting rights, enshrining these rights affirmatively and unambiguously in the Constitution would allow Congress to set national standards for all elections, grant full representation to the citizens of the District of Columbia and enfranchise the millions of Americans whose civil rights have been unjustly taken away.

Venezuelans will vote Sunday in a referendum that would remove all limits on presidential re-election, grant Chávez direct control over foreign currency reserves, allow him to censor the media under a state of emergency declarable at his discretion, expand his powers to expropriate private property and create the second formally socialist nation in the Americas alongside Fidel's.

Less well known is the fact that the House budget slashed funds to civic and history education programs, public financing of Presidential elections, regulatory enforcement of net neutrality, election reform grants from the Election Assistance Commission, and immigrant civic integration grants.

The following August, a few months before the Presidential election, Bornstein granted an interview to NBC News.

Election officials granted both requests, along with those for voting sites at libraries, grocery stores and community centers.

He said he would be an "eternal warrior against complacency" and not take the next election for granted.

Aides and allies insist that, in a year when voters are deeply angry at incumbents in both parties, Mr. Cuomo is not taking his election for granted.