Sentence examples for to be aid from inspiring English sources

The guiding principle should be that the interest rate to benchmark against when deciding whether a loan is cheap enough to be aid should move up and down with donor-country interest rates.

As a matter of maths, the issue is that the DAC formula for assessing whether a loan is "soft" enough to be aid uses a reference rate of 10%, which may have made sense in 1972, when it was adopted, but does not now.

Timor-Leste argues that treaty should be scrapped because, six years after it was signed, it was revealed Australia had bugged the Timor-Leste government's cabinet room, with listening devices implanted by Australian Security Intelligence Service agents pretending to be aid workers renovating the office.

The victim is believed to be aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, who was kidnapped by the Islamic State, also called ISIS, in October of 2013.

"To be treason, it has to be aid to an enemy of the United States, and Russia isn't an enemy," Carlton F.W. Larson, an expert on constitutional law and treason in particular at the University of California-Davis, told me in February, when the scandal was heating up.

I have come to believe that people destined to be aid workers are imbued with a double dose of divine sparks; they need these extra sparks to go into the depressing corners of the world where terrible things have happened and to bring hope where otherwise none could be found.

That is true both because no one in his or her right mind would prefer national organisations to be aid-dependent when they could raise funds from their own societies, but also because many governments justify the increasing attacks on "civil society space" on the grounds that civil society organisations (CSOs) are pawns of foreign funders.

Now they are to be aided by the National Guard, which is paramilitary by definition.

The owner, a police officer named Jose Ramos, was believed to be aiding drug dealers.

Second, OFCs are thought to be aiding tax evasion, the unlawful avoidance of tax.

Life in Africa is still hard, but now the killer is more likely to be Aids.