Sentence examples for of direct subsidy from inspiring English sources

Most make economic sense either because of direct subsidy or because of their particular economic circumstances.

How could anybody regard euro40 billion ($39 billion) a year of direct subsidy (plus twice as much again in higher prices demanded of European consumers) as too much to pay for producing food nobody wants, keeping third-world farmers poor and wrecking Europe's rural environment?

These handouts take the form of direct subsidies, cash, tax breaks and publicly funded infrastructure.

To encourage loss-making farmers to go on planting sugar cane, officials in Beijing are considering a system of direct subsidies.

The government has already doled out some of the money it expects to save in the form of direct subsidies into private bank accounts (of the poor, mostly), while staggered utility prices will reward thrift.

Their freedom from the more acute profit-making pressures, often a result of direct subsidies, coupled with their assured, if limited, market, enables many to reach high standards of production and commercial viability.

But she warned it also suited the state as it lets politicians off the hook in terms of direct subsidies, knowing that the unemployment insurance system would support creatives.

DAVID CRANE Chief Executive, NRG Energy Princeton, N.J., Nov. 13, 2011 To the Editor: Your article does a great service in detailing the oversubsidization of alternative energy, but doesn't mention the biggest problem with these kinds of direct subsidies: They are addictive and create long-term corporate dependency.

In the past TiVo has had to expense the cost of the cobranding, either in the form of direct subsidies, or as a noncash charge to amortize stock and warrants issued in return for services.

We consider the reality of market concentration and the extent to which pragmatic regulation could allow prices to rise above marginal cost to reduce the extent of direct subsidies and complex market designs.

Besides the huge indirect subsidy that comes from the fact that the industry doesn't pay for polluting the atmosphere, there are lots of direct subsidies.