Sentence examples for measures grants from inspiring English sources

Underplaying its differences with public providers, CalAm states that "all operating procedures are identical … the differences (being) in the financial model, … (where) publicly owned water systems use … bond measures, grants, or allocations from other funds (whereas) investor-owned water systems use money from shareholders, for which they pay a return" (www.montereywaterfacts.com; 12/3/2008).

But he noted such measures grant special privileges to one group over another – an idea he doesn't support.

She said the rules might lead to new pressure from business on Congress to reconsider measures granting legal status to illegal immigrants.

Its purpose was to marshal publicly available official figures to show that the country has built "a formidable enforcement machinery" since 1986, the last time Congress considered an overhaul of the immigration laws that included measures granting legal status to large numbers of illegal immigrants..

The House measure grants up to $13 billion in tax relief over 10 years.

The measure grants immunity to telecommunications companies that worked with the domestic wiretapping program after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The measure grants the United States and Britain an extraordinary amount of authority over Iraq's political and economic affairs until a representative, internationally recognized government is installed.

This measure grants local authorities the power to mandate that mothers in areas deemed to have high rates of population growth have children no fewer than three years apart.

Knowing they will come under fire for the wide benefits the measure grants to the energy industry in the form of tax breaks, research projects, incentives for a new natural gas pipeline from Alaska and easing of regulatory requirements, Republican authors on Friday began promoting the capacity of the measure to create hundreds of thousands of jobs.

After ignoring the bill for 18 months, Mr. Arafat on Tuesday signed into a law a measure granting judicial independence.

The N.R.A.'s lobbyist in the state, Brian Judy, testified that the measure granted "extraordinarily broad authority to strip firearms rights".