Sentence examples for financed close to from inspiring English sources

Rather than reassuring Malawians or the foreign donors who have financed close to half the government's budget, Mr. Mutharika's words are likely to stoke fears that his growing intolerance for dissent could jeopardize the progress Malawi has made in combating hunger, disease and destitution.

"One lady wrote a thousand letters to the mayor complaining about us," recalled Denise Scott, managing director of the New York office of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, which has financed close to 400 subsidized one- to-four-family homes without a single foreclosure.

You will be far more successful raising seed and early-stage VC financing close to home, on whichever side of the Atlantic it may be.

The measures will prove to be "difficult" and "unpopular, according to the economist, but necessary to bring back public finances closer to the surplus levels before the crisis hit.

Funds from a farm ownership loan are typically allocated for purchasing new land, improving existing farmland, improvement or construction of new farm structures, promoting conservation projects, and to finance closing costs.

PAGE A10 Japan's Financial Woes The yen fell sharply before rebounding yesterday after Japan's finance minister said the government's finances were close to a "catastrophic situation".

In Tokyo, Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said Japanese government finances were close to a "catastrophic situation".

The company also continued its search for additional financing, people close to the negotiations said.

The government's finances are close to balance; most government debt is now long-term and denominated in pesos, rather than dollars.

Henry B. Schacht, the chief executive of Lucent Technologies, made personal pleas with bankers during negotiations yesterday in an effort to secure $6.5 billion in financing, people close to the talks said.

[A1.] Japan's Finances Called Perilous Japan's finance minister, Kiichi Miyazawa, stunned his political colleagues and the financial markets by testifying before Parliament that the government's finances were close to a "catastrophic situation".