Sentence examples for raises subsidies from inspiring English sources

Senate and House members agreed on a $100 billion, six-year farm bill that raises subsidies to the biggest grain and cotton farmers.

He failed this time using tactics that had so long sustained his rule: the ability to divide and conquer the masses, to anesthetize the population with promises, pay raises, subsidies and government reshuffling.

SPEAKING to the African Development Bank the day before the arrival here of Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill and the rock star Bono, who were visiting Africa on a fact-finding tour, Mr. Meles said it was "clearly and blatantly hypocritical" for the United States to have enacted legislation this spring that raises subsidies for domestic farmers.

But it may also involve raising subsidies, HUD officials say.

With wheat prices soaring, Mr Mubarak promised that bread would stay cheap, raising subsidies which now run at over $2 billion a year.

The central government has cranked up interest rates, banned the hoarding of staple foods, raised subsidies to low-income families and increased the minimum wage.

For the same reasons, raising subsidies and cutting taxes for low earners, as the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act did, would both add to deficit and reduce employment.

He also paid special attention to cultivating local military units; he upgraded equipment, raised subsidies for soldiers' living expenses, and found jobs for retiring officers.

Go-Ahead said it was prepared to invest pounds 50m in Thameslink and pounds 10m in Thames Trains but only in return for franchise extensions or raised subsidies.

But farmers and agribusiness, which represents 13percentt of the country's gross domestic product, convinced Congress to pass annual emergency payments raising subsidies to a record $20 billion last year.

The $180 billion farm bill has set off fresh America-bashing from nations angered to see a free-trade proponent raising subsidies.