Sentence examples for raft of programs from inspiring English sources

Both candidates promise a raft of programs to help the poor, and for all their angry diatribes, they sound alike when they talk about creating jobs, giving public pensions to the elderly and offering help for young people.

During the decades in which the right and the left battled over abortion, a whole raft of programs designed to prevent the neglect of young children were being dismantled.

Although the raft of programs is generating success stories, most observers are wary about predicting the imminent downfall of the life sciences mandarins.

In fact, cuts in hiseducation budget total about $10 billion and target a raft of programs that help poor and working-class families.

With the money — a reported $3.8 million — he initiated a raft of new programs: a priority prosecution program that sought to bring violent offenders to trial in less than ninety days; an organized-crime task force; an arson task force.

The Federal Reserve printed vast amounts of additional money, creating a raft of borrowing programs for financial institutions and businesses.

Part of what's driving the shift — and helping veterans find jobs and succeed in the workplace — is a raft of new programs by government agencies, universities, non-profits and employers.

Jens Flosdorff, a spokesman for Ursula von der Leyen, the German labor minister, said that European officials were considering a raft of different programs, including some that would involve credits for companies to help them hire more young people.

And so Mr. Lieberman too builds his platform on tax cuts for the middle class to stimulate the economy, tax incentives to help business create and keep jobs in the country and tax increases for the wealthy to help pay for a raft of social programs, including health care, child care, education and job training.

Despite a raft of livelihood programs designed to help Indonesian small-scale fishers there are concerns that the needs of the poor are still not being addressed.

In April, the Bush Administration proposed cutting $100 million from a raft of DOE programs to improve nuclear security in Russia, from securing plutonium stockpiles against potential smugglers to helping nuclear physicists find peaceful work (Science, 1 June, p. 1632).