Sentence examples for raising procurement from inspiring English sources

This discount level reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 28.2% while raising procurement costs by 3.7% relative to a non-preference mechanism.

By comparison, President Reagan raised procurement spending by more than $20 billion between 1981 and 1982, as measured by inflation-adjusted dollars.

It raised procurements to $200 million and established joint ventures and manufacturing plants.

"Right now we're raising the procurement for about 5 million polio vaccines, and that will be for two rounds of polio immunization" said Ms. Lwin.

While the Clinton administration has raised the procurement budget to $60 billion, from $43 billion three years ago, the chiefs believe they need $70 billion or more as new weapons arrive in the years ahead, a senior military official said.

The Pentagon has already taken some steps in that direction, promising to cut bases and personnel in order to raise annual procurement spending by half from its post-cold war low of $40 billion.But Mr O'Hanlon suggests that it could, indeed must, go a little further.

His economic competence was questioned after allegations that he had raised grain procurement prices through inflationary subsidies and scrapped the capital gains tax.

This way, the company protects its procurement, raises its standards and maintains a high quality of the raw materials it uses.

More recently, it has signed deals to manufacture vehicles in Jordan, India and Azerbaijan, and it has alliances as far off as Singapore, raising its profile in global procurement bids.

The cost increase was seized on by Tory defence spokesman Liam Fox as raising "serious questions about the competence of the procurement programme".

Beijing's drive to extend its military and territorial reach is making America's close allies in the region nervous and raising legitimate questions about American diplomacy and future military procurement.