Sentence examples for hands on aid from inspiring English sources

Another widely held belief is that once politicians get their hands on aid money it goes wherever it does the most good for the least number of people, and that the spigot - once turned on -- can never be turned off.

"The European Union also ties the UK's hands on state aid, preventing us from temporarily nationalising the industry under their inflexible single market competition rules.

Robert Hinze, a fireman on the original Scott Special, was on hand to aid in the recreation as the replica train worked over Cajon Pass in California.

On the contrary, with his almost morbid reserves of energy, Araki runs panting teams of assistants, who these days are on hand to aid his every move.

Also on hand to aid and abet the strikers and encourage the cultural and romantic aspirations of Jack (bet you didn't know he was an artist in his spare time) is a lovely, high-born but politically fair-minded reporter named Katharine (Kara Lindsay).

Having tools on hand to aid in verification are useful in today's age of real-time reporting, where news breaks on social media services like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, and then quickly becomes widely distributed before being fact-checked.

Korea and Botswana, on the other hand, did rely on aid heavily for brief periods in the 1970s.

This could be withheld if the Turks continue to get the cold shoulder from the EU, especially from Greece: the Greeks are blocking on the one hand aid promised as part of an EU customs-union deal and, on the other, all progress on admitting Cyprus to the EU if the Turkish-Cypriot community is officially consulted, as France and Germany sensibly say it must be.

Mr President, I wish first of all to congratulate the rapporteur and to say that I welcome this initiative, which clarifies the relationship between, on the one hand, state aid and, on the other hand, the provision by Member States of compensation for the cost of services of general economic interest.

Grab the ends of the band-aid with two fingers of one hand on one and two fingers of the other hand to separate the sticky ends.

Then try to release one hand and spin on the other, using the free hand to aid you in your spinning.