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  • noun Plural form of subvention.

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Examples

  • Here is a bravura interleaving of the micro with the macro: Anderson père conducts love affairs with different women and with Chinese culture, and keeps the civil-service banner as unstained as possible, all while eventually helping to administer subventions from the Japanese aggressor; in effect a servant of the British Crown, he stays in contact with Ireland and quietly supports the Sinn Fein and Home Rule cause.

    What’s Left? 2006

  • It reports via Solana to the Council and relies for its existence of voluntary annual subventions from the member states.

    It ain't Brussels, stoopid! Richard 2006

  • Here is a bravura interleaving of the micro with the macro: Anderson père conducts love affairs with different women and with Chinese culture, and keeps the civil-service banner as unstained as possible, all while eventually helping to administer subventions from the Japanese aggressor; in effect a servant of the British Crown, he stays in contact with Ireland and quietly supports the Sinn Fein and Home Rule cause.

    What’s Left? 2006

  • The subsidies which it granted were termed, inoffensively, "subventions," and its promoters protested that these "subventions" were "not in any opprobrious sense a subsidy or bounty."

    Manual of Ship Subsidies Edwin M. Bacon

  • There's a good article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "Presses Seek Fiscal Relief in Subsidies for Authors": "Under this plan, all institutions would contribute to the pool, and give authors $5,000 to $10,000 in what are called 'subventions' that they could take to an academic press interested in publishing their book.

    Academic publishing Jenny Davidson 2004

  • There's a good article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "Presses Seek Fiscal Relief in Subsidies for Authors": "Under this plan, all institutions would contribute to the pool, and give authors $5,000 to $10,000 in what are called 'subventions' that they could take to an academic press interested in publishing their book.

    Archive 2004-08-01 Jenny Davidson 2004

  • Français · Fidji: L'UE ne versera pas de subventions au secteur du sucre en 2009

    Global Voices in English » Fiji: EU cancels 2009 sugar subsidy 2009

  • For decades Egyptian presidents—with huge American subventions—have operated many bakeries and subsidized others.

    The Rise of Nations Steven L. Kaplan 2011

  • In addition to regular subventions, the government was forced to make emergency grants of 2.5 billion euros in 2009 to meet pension outlays, and could be looking at another 3.8 billion euros this year.

    Greece Bites The Bullet On Pension Reform 2010

  • Of course, if you have a private trust fund and are married to an heiress to 3,000 acres of Lincolnshire plus 1,000 acres of prime land to the north of York and the taxpayer pays your mortgage and electricity bills in at least one of your country houses and you get any and all of the subventions you require from your City friends, why should you worry of this impost on "the little people."

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

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