Sentence examples for net recipient from inspiring English sources

For example, Montana is Bush country -- and a big net recipient of federal money: $2,400 per resident in 1998.

That is testament to China's remarkable growth; as recently as 2010, it was still a net recipient of foreign aid.

Unlike, say, New Jersey, which pays far more into the U.S. Treasury than it gets in return, Mississippi is a major net recipient of federal funds.

Boosted by its accession to the World Trade Organisation, China is sucking in foreign investment by the bucketload last year, it became the world's biggest net recipient.

Japan moved from being a net recipient of foreign aid after World War II to the top donor nation in the 1990s.

The UK is also a net recipient of academic research support from the EU, taking in €3.44 billion more than it contributed from 2007 to 2013.

But even among those earning between $25,000 and $50,000, only 20% were such "net recipients".

The 10 biggest net recipients of taxpayers' largess were, in order, New Mexico, Mississippi, Alaska, Louisiana, West Virginia, North Dakota, Alabama, South Dakota, Kentucky and Virginia.

This is not offensive in itself: most English regions, too, are net recipients of taxpayers' money.

There are the "friends of cohesion": the net recipients of regional spending, such as Poland, Hungary and the Baltic states.

But they benefit from central-government defence spending, and they are net recipients from the social-security system.