Sentence examples for pet programme from inspiring English sources

EASTER week was hard on city academies, Tony Blair's pet programme to redeem failing schools in poor neighbourhoods.

On top of this, nearly every country has its own pet programme to back chosen venture capitalists.Despite taxpayers' generosity, few think Europe's VC industry has much chance of attracting American levels of capital from private investors, given its feeble record.

He cares passionately about the public-service side of his role: ensuring affordable service in rural areas, or putting terminals into schools.On issues close to his heart, such as a pet programme for schools and libraries, he has already thumbed his nose at Congress.

Managers everywhere could learn something from the women in the pet programme.

The Republican leadership has kept its waverers in line only by agreeing to increase spending on their pet programmes.

Rivard recalls an inmate who entered the Prison Pet Partnership programme a few years ago.

Chuck Grassley, a Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, blames President Clinton for trying to pad his legacy with pet social programmes.

Most notably, he has forecast future savings on pensions payments and counted them as current general revenues.These accounting gimmicks are the main way, says Mrs Topinka, in which Mr Blagojevich has been able to expand spending on pet social programmes without breaking his pledge to avoid increases in sales or income taxes.

There is so little enthusiasm for following Packard's example in Silicon Valley that companies seem more likely to boast crèches for their employees' pets than programmes designed to assist the poor and unskilled who are being priced out of the area's soaring property market.

The spat over whether the education department has diverted £400m of its budget away from local authority schools into Gove's pet free schools programme is essentially an internecine one between the coalition parties.

In evening dress with his shirt-front threatening to take off at any moment, he played the same instrument on the Room 101 "pet hates" television programme in 2002 after telling Paul Merton that he hated plastic food wrappers, "too many female teachers" and the Archbishop of Canterbury for not denouncing hunting.