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  • The government should wind-up the DFID bureaucracy, and spend the entire aid budget topping-up private donations to approved charities doing priority humanitarian work.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • The government should wind-up the DFID bureaucracy, and spend the entire aid budget topping-up private donations to approved charities doing priority humanitarian work.

    The Sunday Essay: Why foreign aid's broken - And how to fix it 2008

  • Advertising income should only be allowed as a topping-up mechanism and the SABC should ensure that it did not become totally dependent on advertising revenue.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The scope for decision the governments have regarding such topping-up payments for individual plants, is nowadays often defined by structural adaptation measures and sector priorities defined over the long term in addition to the actual state household position.

    3. The biogas dissemination programme 1993

  • However, the profit margin for the simple household plants is so small that complete integration of the technology into the private sector will be very improbable in the long term without financial assistance from third parties in the form of topping-up funds.

    3. The biogas dissemination programme 1993

  • "We're not attempting to disturb other bargaining arrangements, except that employers should not be obliged to bargain topping-up wages."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Young villagers and some women were trained to carry out small maintenance and repair jobs such as topping-up with hydraulic oil or renewing a pump seal.

    3. Case Studies 1989

  • As the case of the topping-up of salaries of employees who are doing national service shows, their cooperation is extensive and indefensible, particularly before their black labour force which is so grossly exploited.

    SPEECH TO BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, LONDON, MAY 27, 1987 1987

  • As the case of the topping-up of salaries of employees who are doing national service shows, their cooperation is extensive and indefensible, particularly before their black labour force which is so grossly exploited.

    SPEECH TO BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, LONDON, MAY 27, 1987 1987

  • It was at least heartening to see Ian Linkman welcoming a squadron that was complete except for one tank broken down; to have the Dragoons 'assurance (perhaps pompously) that he would hold the front while Connors sorted himself out; and watch the Leopards moving purposefully to their preliminary assembly area for topping-up with fuel.

    First Clash Macksey, Kenneth 1984

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