Sentence examples for worth of allowances from inspiring English sources

President Obama's budget has almost $200 billion worth of allowances.

At first, the companies worked with the government to divvy up 30 years' worth of allowances, to be traded on spot and futures markets.

They proposed handing power companies hundreds of billions of dollars worth of allowances to pollute, additional billions to subsidize the development of technology to sequester carbon from coal-fired plants, and evisceration of federal authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon.

Last year, for instance, ArcelorMittal, the Luxembourg-based company that is the world's biggest steel maker, had 86.9 million tons worth of allowances, but wound up selling about 22 million tons worth for $220 million because it did not produce enough to need them.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department investigators are reportedly examining how U.S. Foodservice booked $880 million worth of promotional allowances from vendors that were later voided by accountants.

There is a "magical logic" in the way hundreds of billions of pounds' worth of carbon allowances are given away to polluting companies, an employee of an major UK carmaker told the Guardian.

Poland has applied for €33-million worth of free allowances for the Łęczna coal plant, near the Ukrainian border, but there is no visible evidence that any construction work has begun at the sleepy greenfield site.

The E.E.I. already had almost everything it wanted: preëmption, nuclear loan guarantees, an assurance that the cost of carbon would never rise above a certain level, and billions of dollars' worth of free allowances through 2030 to help smooth the transition into the program.

Some €22.5 billion-worth ($30.4 billion) of allowances were traded last year, according to Point Carbon, a data-provider, representing 1.6 billion tonnes of CO2 a huge increase on the €9.4 billion traded in 2005.

The voluntary programme, aimed at people between 16 and 24 who have been unemployed for more than three months, came under fire after it emerged that if a participant leaves without "good reason" after the first week, they can lose two weeks' worth of jobseeker's allowance.

In weeks of closed-door negotiations with these Democrats, Mr. Waxman doled out billions of dollars worth of free pollution permits, known as allowances, to cushion any price shock caused by imposing a cap on emissions of heat-trapping gases.