Sentence examples for sizable subsidies from inspiring English sources

Ireland (which is often called the Celtic Tiger), has enjoyed sizable subsidies from the European Union.

Thus, they say, the only way to make real progress in household energy efficiency is with sizable subsidies and mandated product standards.

The Europeans are unhappy with a five-year, $289 billion farm bill that maintains sizable subsidies for American farmers, even as the Europeans vow to review their own farm subsidies as a spur to trade talks.

John Koenig, president of New York Fast Ferry, which runs high-speed catamarans between Manhattan and Monmouth County, N.J., said most other cities either operated their own ferry service or provided sizable subsidies.

In a bid to generate 20 percent of the European Union's electricity from renewable sources by 2020, Germany, Spain and other E.U. countries have provided hefty subsidies to wind and solar farms, which now constitute a sizable minority of daily electricity generation, often surpassing the 20 percent target.

This vital legislation requires large developers receiving sizable public subsidies to pay a minimum of $10 an hour plus benefits, or $11.50 an hour without benefits, to all employees.

As much as some European government ministers would like to help out their national carriers, the European Union's single-market rules, which let airlines fly within the union much as domestic carriers can fly anywhere within the United States, prohibit sizable government subsidies.

Table 4 also shows the sizable indirect subsidies existent in the Iraqi economy, which exceed indirect taxes in 25 trillions of Iraq Dinars, that is, more than 13%% of its GDP at market prices.

But the company is also looking for a sizable government subsidy, officials say, which could prompt some stormy bargaining sessions.

This bill provides for a sizable increase in subsidies to American farmers.

But in other places the story is more encouraging; many economists argue that government intervention in the market was instrumental in the postwar rise of countries like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan; more recently, Germany has built a sizable solar industry using subsidies.