grant-in-aid

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Recent Examples of grant-in-aid On Monday, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directed federal agencies to stop spending money, with exceptions for entitlements, defense, and direct support for individuals, until grants-in-aid programs were aligned with the president’s agenda. Matthew Continetti, National Review, 1 Feb. 2025 Up until now, licensing and NIL rights have not been part of the grant-in-aid agreements athletes enter into with universities. Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019 The elimination of all initial grants-in-aid and recruiting activities in the sport involved in the latest major violation in question for a two-year period. Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024 Ending federal subsidies and grants-in-aid alone would solve many of today’s fiscal problems. Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 The decision to provide the stimulus as grant-in-aid, rather than as a loan, co-investment or rebate scheme was also strategic. Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024 O’Neil’s news was followed quickly by several announcements of college transfers, who signed grant-in-aid documents rather than a national letter intent. Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grant-in-aid
Noun
  • On the other hand, Anthropic itself is quick to sell its LLMs as a way for other companies to help employees that might have a little trouble communicating without AI assistance.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The United States Agency for International Development is one of the largest aid organizations in the world, established under President John F. Kennedy to provide a variety of foreign assistance programs in developing nations.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Both municipalities have relied heavily on state and federal grants to complete their projects, and Key Biscayne expected to do the same.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
  • President Donald Trump has issued executive orders pausing almost all federal grants and loans, halting medical research, gumming up payment systems for Medicaid recipients in the states.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The issue with many state initiatives to help with homelessness is that the burden of proof to show aid is needed is onerous.
    Graham P. Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Efforts to dismantle the agency, which provides humanitarian and development aid, are moving at a frenetic pace.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Strategies outlined in the release include protecting, preserving and restoring affordable homes; providing direct subsidies and increasing access to homeownership for first-time homebuyers; preventing evictions and foreclosures; and working with employers on workforce housing needs.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Some Sacramento buyers have been scoring lower mortgage rates, as low as 4%, on new construction, Frank said Unlike families selling their older homes, builders of new construction, often in complexes, are able to take advantage of government subsidies and other tools to lower costs.
    Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The ranges depended on factors like the discretionary block grant and funding for transitional kindergarten.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
  • One proposal causing concern among some NIH supporters would give at least some of the NIH budget directly to states through block grants, bypassing the agency's intensive peer-review system.
    Rob Stein, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024

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“Grant-in-aid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grant-in-aid. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.

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