Sentence examples for grants compared from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

Granted, compared with the devastation of Sept. 11, the filching of a flag is hardly cosmic.

Granted, compared with the rocket launching of Lin, Victor Cruz's unheralded rise to pass-catching prominence was aboard a hot-air balloon.

Mr. Harrison received stock options valued at $4.8 million at the time they were granted, compared with $46.2 million in 2000, though the awards booked that year covered two years of options grants, according to the regulatory filing.