Sentence examples for practice of financing from inspiring English sources

A state court ruled yesterday that Monroe County could discontinue its 46-year practice of financing the school-nurse program for Rochester public schools.

Last February, the FARC announced that it would cease its longstanding practice of financing its activities by kidnapping civilians for ransom.

They result from our antiquated practice of financing schools primarily through state and local taxes, which translates vast socioeconomic differences between neighborhoods, counties and states into vast differences in school funds.

Lloyd's of London, which suffered heavy losses in the World Trade Center attacks, said yesterday that it soon hoped to end its more than 300-year practice of financing insurance through individual investors who risked their entire net worth, but often reaped fabulous profits.

Experts in federal earmarking — a practice of financing pet projects that has been forsaken by many members of Congress as a toxic symbol of political abuse — said they could not recall a case in which a former lawmaker stood to benefit so directly from an earmark he had authorized.

That practice of financing a project by raising money from a group of people has gained considerable worldwide attention, fast.

Andrei Kirilenko is the Professor of the Practice of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

But it's wrong to retreat from the practice of fully financing the M.T.A.'s five-year capital programs, which a former M.T.A. chairman, Richard Ravitch, instituted in the 1980s.

What this wouldn't do is totally end the practice of publicly financing stadiums, as cities and states could -- and certainly would -- still use taxpayer funds and access non-exempt bonds to pay for new facilities.

Once considered taboo in the legal profession, the practice of litigation finance is enticing more corporate lawyers to become investors, bankrolling lawsuits in exchange for a piece of the potential winnings.

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