Sentence examples for grants compare from inspiring English sources

If you do not get a clear answer, try asking several juniors and seniors how their grants compare with those they received as freshmen.

In agreeing to these moves, the budget office effectively reversed decisions it had announced in early June, when the agency said that Nassau and Suffolk would be downgraded to a division of the metro area, a decision that could have affected the counties' ability to win federal grants, compare the Island with other populous regions and attract new business.

For 2010, the foundation made a total of $647,500 in grants, compared to grants totaling $631,000 the prior year.

Overall, the N.E.A. made 78 grants, compared with 64 in 2011, totaling $3.55 million, compared with $4 million last year.

Mr. Bush said he would like to see "up to 50percentt" of the World Bank's $6 billion in annual outlays for the poorest countries provided in grants, compared with about 1percentt now.

For an elite school, Emory enrolls an unusually large number of low-income students — 22 percent get Pell grants, compared with 11 percent at Harvard — and gives them unusually large aid packages.

One graphic he links to (ppt) but doesn't include is just stunning: here's the declining value of Pell grants compared with college costs: Next time someone tells you that he's in favor of equality of opportunity, not equality of results, ask him whether he proposes to reverse the decline in Pell grants and other programs giving educational opportunity to the less fortunate.

They also questioned the quality of SBIR grants compared with those funded by the rest of an agency's portfolio.

*Update, 24 February, 9 13 a.m.: The article has been revised to clarify that at several institutes, the difference in success rates for AIDS grants compared to all grants is 4 to 5 percentage points.

A notice yesterday from NIH explains that, as a result of the "nearly 1 percent" decrease from what NIH received in 2010, the agency will cut 1% from ongoing grants compared with the 2010 level.

Tellingly, women academics are less likely than men to have children, but of those women with dependent children only 50% had applied for grants, compared with 62% of the men with families.