I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a funding council (= for giving money to projects, organizations etc )
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a further education funding council
be funded by a grant
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The expansion of the computer department was funded by a government grant.
be funded by donations (= receive the money that is needed from donations )
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We are a charity entirely funded by voluntary donations.
be short of money/cash/funds
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Our libraries are short of funds.
campaign funds/money
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He was found guilty of using campaign funds illegally.
discretionary award/grant/fund etc
electronic funds transfer
fund a study (= pay for it )
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The study was funded by a major US drugs company.
hedge fund
International Monetary Fund
investment funds
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The city is in a good position to attract new investment funds.
mutual fund
pension fund
raise money/funds for charity
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A huge amount is raised for charity by the festival.
raising funds
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They are raising funds to help needy youngsters.
sinking fund
slush fund
social fund
surplus cash/funds/revenues
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Surplus cash can be invested.
trust fund
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
federal
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The United States has forbidden the use of federal funds for human cloning research.
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The Fed lowered the key federal funds rate on overnight bank loans twice last year, in July and December.
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In all, $ 2.2 million in federal funds was illegally diverted by those convicted, prosecutors said.
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That would have allowed them to collect nearly $ 2 in federal funds for each local dollar.
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Her campaign has qualified for more than US$1 million in federal matching funds , surpassing Jerry Brown's.
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The two of them reversed Indianapolis' long-standing tradition of not taking federal funds , including money for school breakfasts.
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Bond yields are above the federal funds rate of 8.25%.
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Third, as you are doing your taxes, be sure to check the box requesting your contributions to federal campaign funds .
general
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It has been suggested that in such cases, the offender's benefit should be channelled to a general victim compensation fund .
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Most cities spend a fortune on their fire departments-often 20 percent of their entire general fund .
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When funding for schools and higher education are combined, education accounts for 55 percent of the state general fund.
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Repaying the general fund is paramount, officials said.
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Much of the remaining $ 52. 7 billion general fund also is on autopilot.
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Higher education accounts for about 13 percent of general fund expenditures.
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The report listed numerous threats to the general fund but did not affix dollar amounts to possible losses.
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From 1991 through 1994, state general fund support fell from $ 373 million to $ 301 million.
mutual
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Many investors struggle to get past the comfort zone of mutual funds .
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Sure, you will boost performance if you manage to pick a few hot stocks or some superstar mutual funds .
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Good news for mutual funds is starting to seem old hat.
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Fidelity is expected to release its monthly mutual fund guide tomorrow.
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Was the $ 1. 2 trillion in mutual fund retirement plans endangered by the market correction?
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And mutual fund technology has blossomed, making it easy to shift from one fund to another.
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In this high, volatile stock market, do you worry about your mutual funds and the people who manage them?
public
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Securing public funds made available for urban regeneration has been a key target.
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It does not help a girl to be honorable to pay her with public funds to be the reverse.
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He faced at least three other trials of misusing public funds and business fraud.
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No wonder he is taking nearly $ 30 million in public funds to underwrite his second campaign.
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Many became voluntary controlled, with more carefully circumscribed independence and total support from public funds .
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He also wants to look at how public incentive funds should be provided to businesses.
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The contract is the mechanism by which the Town Hall will monitor the administration of public funds through the privatisation process.
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That plank also opposes the use of public funds for abortion and organizations that advocate abortion.
social
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Cold Weather Payments are also made from the social fund .
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Of all federal trust funds , only the Social Security trust fund is not included in the unified budget.
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She has two children under five and has just £50 to spend as she is currently paying off a social fund loan.
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The social fund has given extensive help to people in real need.
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About 245,000 people receive community care grants through the social fund and one million get crisis loans.
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The average social fund grant for furniture in 1990-1 was £377, excluding grants for washing machines.
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In April 1988 supplementary benefit was replaced by income support and social fund payments.
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campaign
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This is not the situation involved in the way the Democrats collected campaign funds for the 1996 election.
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Government officials are not allowed to raise campaign funds or otherwise engage in partisan political activity.
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It is also barred by federal election law from advising PACs on how to distribute their campaign funds .
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Gingrich has not decided whether to pay the financial penalty from personal or campaign funds , Maddox said.
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Clinton said he could not remember whether he personally solicited campaign funds by telephone from the White House.
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Some Democrats on Capitol Hill have joined in the call for an independent counsel to investigate campaign fund raising.
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Because the excess of campaign fund raising, of winning at any cost, is eroding public faith in the entire system.
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But some members preferred to celebrate with their own money, or use leftover campaign funds .
investment
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Although the under-18s can not trade shares themselves, adults can buy stakes in collective investment funds on their behalf.
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Proponents argued that bonds represented the only source of investment funds for many small companies.
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Buying an investment fund for a child demands the same consideration about risks and return as buying for an adult.
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Even insider-trading accusations against brokerages and managers of investment funds haven't hurt stocks' appeal.
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In a competitive environment, Bristol is already well-positioned to attract new investment funds .
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Skills and knowledge, human capital, are created by the Same investment funds that create physical capital.
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Under the country's voucher-privatisation system, the majority of the company's shares were acquired by seven big investment funds .
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Laws on the marketing of investment funds date back to the mid-1980s and to a defunct regulator known as Lautro.
management
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However, you do need to select a good fund management house, and to find suitable high-quality funds for your money.
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Profits from client advisory services, which include funds management , fell to $ 13 million from $ 30 million.
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Close also has a thriving fund management arm, which several bidders are thought to have looked at.
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There are two local-foreign fund management joint ventures set up under the old rules.
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Examples are fund management and corporate finance.
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Custody differs from fund management , where assets are actively invested in stocks and bonds.
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Already 70 major financial institutions and several multinational manufacturing companies have established fund management arms there.
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So the fund management companies, not the mutual-fund shareholders, are paying for the ads, fund officials said.
manager
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Day-to-day running of the trust is carried out by specialist fund managers , often by merchant banks.
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Companies that allow, or even encourage, their fund managers to speak to the press consider the publicity to have value.
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Other fund managers are looking wise too.
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Two fund managers first suspected irregularities comparing their portfolios during an off-duty chat.
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Then there is the question of how much the divestment will release for fund managers to manage.
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There were reports of strong demand from institutional fund managers and private clients, together with interest from overseas investors.
pension
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I telephone a woman at Central States, which is the big Teamster pension fund .
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Why are employees treated as vassals by the pension funds ?
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He would also have to liquidate his pension funds .
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Your business can borrow money from your pension fund on normal commercial terms.
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Between their hold on giant pension funds and their private wealth, they dominate political, economic, and social policy.
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A spokesman for the people now running the pension fund says they will in time.
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Public pension funds have experimented with such investments and have sustained huge losses.
slush
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They claim the expulsions were a cover-up bid after they tried to expose a slush fund run by crooked officials.
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It also stated that Stans maintained a secret slush fund of cash in his office totaling at least $ 350, 000.
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And it is this money which can be channelled, undetected, into the slush funds via foreign banks.
trust
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In consequence, the trust fund is accumulating surpluses.
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The sum needed to cover the gap would gradually decrease each year as proceeds from parental trust funds phase into the system.
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We have seen that this does not tend to include funds such as the superannuation fund and trust funds.
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If everyone were required to convert their parental trust funds to annuities at retirement, this problem could be alleviated.
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What we had was no trust fund .
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The trust funds are reported only in the fund accounts.
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The trust fund now collects money from 125 million workers to pay benefits to 43 million people.
■ VERB
help
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The proposal, to help fund fisheries work, had been widely condemned by farmers and landowners.
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Friends have helped out in fund raising.
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Jane Fonda's Workout helped fund Hayden's political campaigns.
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I also secured a special addition to the block to help fund improved water quality and sewage treatment standards.
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Now Victim Support needs individuals and businesses to help fund their work in north Oxfordshire.
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In the meantime, the Higher Education Funding Council needs to be persuaded to help fund it.
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It's been named after rock star Steve Winwood, who helped raise funds for the centre.
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Please help us raise funds now so our four-legged inmates can celebrate our centenary in 1992.
invest
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A further £265,000 will be invested in a fund to provide her with a tax-free, inflation-proof income for life.
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I am 39, and like so many of the baby boomers, I have invested in mutual funds .
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But some charities are prevented from investing all their funds in the ethical scheme.
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The plaintiffs can not raid the $ 4. 3 million invested in his pension funds .
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Landed proprietors generally did not much invest in the funds , although some individual peers had substantial holdings.
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In comparison, just $ 22 billion was invested in mutual funds in 1990.
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Both have the choice of investing their dollar funds in domestic or in external money markets.
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To invest in local funds they must have a local partner with at least a 30 percent share.
manage
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Now that managed funds are doing somewhat better, will investors drift away from index funds?
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They can be bought direct via a stockbroker, or via a managed fund set up for the purpose.
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Over the last couple of decades, managing such funds has become a pretty well perfected science.
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The size of the pension fund is a major determinant of the extent to which managed funds are used.
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The library has managed to obtain the funds to hold the dinner at the library itself.
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In such instances a managed currency fund or an umbrella fund offering a choice of separate currencies would be more appropriate.
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There are equityincome funds that are a little growth and some growth and income funds that are managed like value funds.
match
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Restructuring must coincide with the broader Community objectives, and Community funds must be matched by national funds.
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All the 1996 presidential candidates except Forbes have accepted matching funds .
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Presidential aspirants received matching campaign funds .
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The Democratic National Committee, in its failed attempt to match Republican fund raising, went a little bananas.
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With city matching funds , she had more than $ 33, 000 in her campaign warchest.
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His campaign has nearly reached the $ 37 million limit allowed by federal law for primary candidates who accept federal matching funds .
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Black said Gramm will reach the cap if he raises just $ 5 million more and gets additional matching funds .
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Federal matching funds go directly to the candidates rather than to the parties.
provide
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The Disabled Persons Act 1986 enshrined the new principles, though without providing funds for the advocacy arrangements desired.
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Senior citizens groups may also provide an untapped fund of skilled helpers.
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Membership of the club was enforced to provide funds to improve the ramp.
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Teachers have been trained and given two free periods a week to supervise the pupils with cover provided from a central fund .
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The actress was found to be the settlor of the settlement because she had indirectly provided the funds of the settlement.
raise
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With the help of her midwifery manager, she raised funds from the hospital to print and collate the material.
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Government officials are not allowed to raise campaign funds or otherwise engage in partisan political activity.
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Taxes can be imposed either to raise funds for pollution control or to discourage over-use of nitrates, or both.
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But the mood of the legislature had changed since his success at raising funds two years earlier.
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Inability to raise the necessary funds or urgent local demands were the usual reasons for delinquency.
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Ten brave folk did a bungee jump to raise funds for Comic Relief.
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Tommy Boggs is said to have raised funds for more Democratic candidates than anyone in Washington.
spend
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The idea is that managers derive utility from spending the company's funds to an extent beyond that necessary for profit maximisation.
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He supported keeping the California Academy of Sciences in the park and spending millions in public funds to rehabilitate it.
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It is the Housing Executive's responsibility to determine how it spends the funds that the Government make available to it.
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Hence the time-honored government rush to spend all funds by the end of the fiscal year.
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Even the increase proposed will put pressure on Congress to hold down other spending or dip into funds earmarked for Social Security.
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But when he started spending funds in the direction of improving the downtown business district, he became an inspiring city leader.
transfer
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As an alternative you can also transfer funds directly from your FlexiLoan to your Current Account whenever you want.
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The Contract also aims to dismantle the Department of Education and transfer its funds to families and local school boards.
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The Society responded gracefully on 3 May, transferring its farriery fund and relevant papers to the College.
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Please close the High Interest Business Account and transfer the funds to the current account.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A total of $5,800 in church funds has been used to provide assistance to local people.
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All the money raised will be donated to the Cancer Research Fund .
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He is on trial for accepting kickbacks from business moguls to build his slush fund .
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If I'm successful in raising over £500, those funds will go to the Bible School.
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New York's Inner City Scholarship Fund pays the college fees of students from poorer families.
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Supporters have set up an appeal fund to help Peter fight the case.
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Tell us, Gillian, how much do you have in the appeal fund now?
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The event was held to raise funds to promote AIDS awareness among young gays.
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The government agreed to create a fund to help develop rural areas.
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The hand-sewn quilts will be sold at a Christmas Craft Fair to raise funds for the arts project.
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The New Children's Shelter Fund received a grant of $80,000.
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There's a special fund you can apply to, that pays for blind students to go to university.
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They used this money to set up a fund for the refugees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A considerable part of these funds was passed on as dinar loans to domestic enterprises.
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Finally, we have noted that other constitutional provisions may provide an independent bar to the conditional grant of federal funds.
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More than 100 offshore funds pay an income in sterling.
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That is the private opportunity cost of the funds tied up in the project.
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The big mutual fund suffered late last year from the same mistakes that hurt the hedge fund.
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The event was to raise funds for the coordinated campaign of California Democrats.
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The Government have given themselves a permanent contributions holiday by no longer making an Exchequer contribution to the national insurance fund .
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The same is true, to some extent, with hedge funds.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
federally
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A federally funded study of educational performance contracts in twenty localities found that the results were universally disappointing.
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The administration clearly preferred not to have any federally funded programs directly aimed at local economic development.
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Approximately 15 people graduate from the federally funded San Diego Job Corps each week, and 15 replace them.
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In unmistakable terms the Act prohibits the exclusion of-individuals from federally funded programs because of their race.
privately
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He also asked for a voluntary moratorium on embryo research that is privately funded .
publicly
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States would have less money for large infrastructure projects such as grid extension or publicly funded large hydropower schemes.
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The regents' vote accommodated real-estate developers who hoped to commandeer the publicly funded college for private profit.
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Since the 1974 Housing Act many have been publicly funded .
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The solution is to abolish drug patents and publicly fund medical research, thus entirely removing the profit consideration.
■ NOUN
bill
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The purpose of this requirement was to ensure that the bill market was adequately funded .
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Mr Clinton has signed appropriations bills funding seven cabinet agencies.
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Called the Nursing Reinvestment Act, the bill would provide funding for education and mid-career training.
campaign
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The partisan jockeying illustrates the difficulties inherent in investigations into campaign fund raising.
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Clinton has raised nearly $ 30 million in campaign funds .
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He has qualified for more than $ 30 million in federal campaign funds this year.
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By virtue of his showing in 1992, Perot qualified for $ 29 million in Federal Election Commission campaign funds this year.
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The Senate has been riven by partisan disputes over hearings into campaign funding irregularities at the Democratic National Committee.
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Backed by a $ 172,689 campaign funded by the cemetery industry, the proposal sailed through with 68 percent of the vote.
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Neither she nor the rally organizers knew how much campaign funding Wilson has received from HMOs and insurers.
care
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One other authority has a joint budget with the health authority, funding a crossroads care attendant scheme and health care assistants.
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The inadequacy of funding for child care and health coverage will manifest itself before long.
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About 40,000 homes are sold each year to fund care home fees, which range from £350 to £1,200 a week.
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To deal with illness, they fund health care services.
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Of course those who can fund their own care will not have to be assessed before entry.
department
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Ask about funding when contacting departments and check with a university careers service for information.
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Government funding to Social service departments who pay 230-pounds for each resident each week will be cut substantially in April.
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Wrangles over funding between the department and local authorities have blocked the scheme, claims the group.
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This is especially difficult if their work is funded by a government department or agency.
development
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Galileo development is initially being funded by vendors - under pressure to win new procurement contracts.
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The neighborhood development program changed the funding of renewal projects from a reserve system to annual funding.
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It also refers to some recent developments in funding public sector projects.
government
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He supports parental notification and opposes government funding , but does not advocate a constitutional amendment banning abortion.
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The incumbent is now off in hot pursuit of government funding for the much-enlarged interoperability lab, see above.
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When governments fund programs or institutions directly, equity becomes difficult to enforce.
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The company blames cuts in Government funding for its work into nuclear fusion for the job losses.
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The meticulous investment of government funds . i 7.
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The level of Government funding in any year determines the number of places which can be offered.
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When governments fund individuals rather than institutions, it is much easier to promote equity.
group
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Student Enterprise projects are also being funded , allowing groups of students to develop their own projects which develop these essential skills.
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The Benham Group gets the money market and bond funds .
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As funding for these groups has increased, funding for multilateral lending bodies has decreased.
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The Progress and Freedom Foundation, another Gingrichrelated group financed with tax-deductible dollars, then picked up the funding .
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The plans include changing the bill of rights, restoring police power to ban protests and restricting foreign funding of local groups .
increase
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Legislative leaders, who approved modest increases in college funding in the last few years, could not be reached Friday.
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We do need significant increases in funding .
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The governor also expects increases in funding for K-12 education to have a long-term positive effect on gang problems, Tremblay said.
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Gordon said the last sweeping school reform in 1983 was accompanied by a $ 1 billion increase in funding for schools.
pension
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Streaming out of the shuttered pension funds .
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The statement was submitted to the pension funds in the process of getting the loan.
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The survey said one possible solution to the problem might be the use of city pension funds to create a loan program.
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The Keating case also involved attorney Michael Manning, now the attorney for the pension funds that are Gov.
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This was nowhere more apparent than in pension funds .
program
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A portion of each sale goes to the Wright foundation, which funds conservation and education programs .
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The way in which Gingrich and his assistants went about funding the program suggests a serious form of abuse.
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The overall cutback in the funding of federal urban programs would require cities to look to state governments for aid.
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We are looking to the city of Grand Forks to assist us in funding our transportation program .
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When governments fund programs or institutions directly, equity becomes difficult to enforce.
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The administration clearly preferred not to have any federally funded programs directly aimed at local economic development.
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The Legislature authorizes and funds the program .
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The Legislature authorized full funding of the program last year, and Gov.
programme
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The project was funded by the Alvey Programme as part of the Logic Programming initiative.
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The Select Committee has taken an interest and has recognised that we have fully funded the programme that we set out.
project
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The project was funded by the Alvey Programme as part of the Logic Programming initiative.
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Of the 22 pilot projects funded so far, the vast majority are led by trade associations or industry groups.
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This project will also be funded from World Bank loans.
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Without that kind of support, these projects do not get funded .
research
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The research was funded from a wide variety of sources.
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is a research group funded by automobile insurance companies.
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On the research side of funding a multiplier is used.
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Since 1994, research funding from such collaborations has grown from 4 percent of the drug development industry to 12 percent.
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The belief will come from researching the media and their prospects but the research will not be funded without the belief.
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Will it make research funding pour forth increasingly?
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Somewhere in the middle of the conflicting forces Bush must decide whether stem cell research should get federal funding .
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He also asked for a voluntary moratorium on embryo research that is privately funded .
scheme
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The Inns have further developed their advocacy training and are organising and funding the scheme for all the pupils in their Inn.
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Aside from the issue of funding beyond the enabling schemes , how were services in the catchment area working after the closure?
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States would have less money for large infrastructure projects such as grid extension or publicly funded large hydropower schemes .
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State funding for the scheme will come from commercial development of various sites in Bakurk y, Sirkeci and Bostanci.
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A special condition will be required if the deposit is being funded by a guarantee scheme .
school
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Opted-out schools are funded directly according to the number of pupils they attract.
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Eastin estimated that the tax cut would reduce school funding by $ 680 million a year.
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Many state schools would be funded by private firms.
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The school funding proposed by Wilson this year is once again the minimum required by school funding.
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Teenage refugees are sent to the Transit School , also funded from donations.
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The school funding proposed by Wilson this year is once again the minimum required by school funding.
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His veto message is significant because it makes it even harder for lawmakers to equalize school funding .
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In fact, many public schools are funded by property taxes, making direct the connection between residential and education segregation.
service
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Now regional health chiefs have decided against funding the service themselves.
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To deal with illness, they fund health care services .
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Government funding to Social service departments who pay 230-pounds for each resident each week will be cut substantially in April.
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This project aims to investigate the methods used by local authorities to determine priorities for funding amongst bus services .
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Nearly all voluntary organisations depend to a substantial extent on funding from statutory services .
state
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Many state schools would be funded by private firms.
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Fife Symington declared the situation a disaster and released $ 200, 000 in state funds to help in the fight.
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Meanwhile Mr Hague has outlined plans to end state funding of universities.
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Branding the Black Chamber highly illegal, he at once directed that all its State Department funds be cut off.
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Those seeking state funding should have to pledge themselves not to teach intolerance or disrespect for secular law.
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Other religious schools unwilling to go along with them should no longer expect state funding .
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The current state formula for funding special education is based on what districts were spending for special education in fiscal 1979-80.
study
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It is proposed that half of the project's time will be funded by case study work.
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A federally funded study of educational performance contracts in twenty localities found that the results were universally disappointing.
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Councillors will discuss the possibility of funding an independent study into the mine's viability.
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Of the 43 industry-funded studies , only 6 came out with any unfavourable findings.
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It might, for example, help you to fund your study or retraining for your real career plan.
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Two of these are funding to support study for an MEd and the Robert Reid fellowships.
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Teachers interested in exploring this source of funding for small research studies should contact.
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It is a conclusion that must have been popular with the Department of the Environment which funded two of the studies .
university
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Without backing from councils or universities crèches are sometimes funded by local firms or charity events.
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Even before the indictments, it was rolling over the Symington administration on a range of issues. University funding .
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Academic libraries Budgets Fifty-five percent of university funding in Britain comes from public money.
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It is how programs are viewed by their own athletic departments and the university administrations that fund them.
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This contrasts with very much larger allocations in many universities with similar research funding levels.
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Colleges and universities Higher education funding in the proposed budget keeps step with the third year of a four-year agreement.
work
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Henley has experience of establishing research consortia and also obtaining third party funding for such work .
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But the hopes fell flat, and private funding for vaccine work is drying up.
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The government was, he said, prepared to facilitate and fund the work of researchers into the matter.
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Obesity researchers' thinking is distorted most by the fact that almost everyone who funds their work is in the diet business.
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It is proposed that half of the project's time will be funded by case study work .
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The company blames cuts in Government funding for its work into nuclear fusion for the job losses.
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The land is owned by Darlington Council, who are funding the conservation work .
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This year the Council has allocated the budgetary sum of £11,210 as its contribution to funding the management work .
■ VERB
continue
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Will donors be prepared to provide the extra funds needed for reconstruction or even to continue funding at current levels?
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The study continued to be funded by the government long after penicillin was available as a cure.
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This must continue to be funded as before to maintain basic development of the technology.
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Forbes is continuing to fund his travels and political activities largely out of his own pocket.
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The writing was on the wall last year when the Government said it could not continue funding .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a charity funded by private donations
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Both schools and industry will be involved in funding the new training projects.
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The museum is funded by the local authority.
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The state should fund the arts for the benefit of us all.
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The women's shelter is funded entirely by the church.
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They suspect that the rebels are being funded by Western governments.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Medicaid is a state-administered program for low-income recipients that is substantially funded by the federal government.
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Research into cancer has been well funded.