Sentence examples for securing an increase from inspiring English sources

The strain is not confined to English-speaking countries: French newspapers have avoided the same fate only by securing an increase in their already hefty government subsidies.Broadcast television news is struggling too.

In the morning, at the Four Seasons Hotel, Abdullah's foreign minister signed a U.S.-Jordanian Memorandum of Understanding, securing an increase in U.S. assistance to the kingdom from $600 million per year to $1 billion.

All in all, Parliament obtained an additional €688.5 million in the area of "growth and jobs", also securing an increase for the Youth Employment Initiative of €116.7 million in commitment appropriations, raising the total to €350 million, to help youngsters seeking a job.

There is an expectation that ITV can secure an increase in reach/audience for the sport.

1996 Senator Kennedy secures an increase in the minimum wage, cementing his reputation as a leading liberal.

Together with J. Edgar Hoover, Palmer created the General Intelligence Division in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and secured an increase in funds from Congress to devote to anticommunist activities by the Justice Department.

The Abbott government also appears set to secure an increase in fuel tax courtesy of Senate support from the Greens, who have signalled they will support the restoration of petrol indexation.

Though during the shutdown Mr. Trump issued an executive order freezing pay for federal civilian workers in 2019 — fulfilling a pledge he made over the summer — Congress agreed to secure an increase of nearly 2percentt for federal civilian employees.

Mattis and Mulvaney are seen on Capitol Hill as pivotal figures in a clash within the Trump administration over whether to cut a deal with Democrats to raise domestic spending to secure an increase in the military budget.

Details are sketchy, but it seems that the teams secured an increase as a result of new commercial deals cut in the last few months.

He secured an increase in the number of New York congressmen voting in favor of the Eighteenth Amendment, the National Prohibition Amendment, from three in 1914 to fourteen in 1917, this increase being important for the passage of the amendment in Congress.