How to Use subsidy in a Sentence

subsidy

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  • The city is increasing subsidies for public transit.
  • Sunak kept up the pace and the flow of subsidies for the next two years.
    — Dominic Green, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Yes, most farm subsidies go to corn and soy, two building blocks of cheap junk food.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • This year ten films receive the Film Sales Support subsidy.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Last year, the state child care office raised the income limits to receive a subsidy.
    — Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Those who make more than $2,000 a month receive no subsidies.
    — Jordan Rau, Fortune Well, 16 Nov. 2023
  • In the years since, Bertrand has suspended the annual regional subsidy due to the school.
    — Anna Rabemanantsoa, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • With rents rising faster than wages, especially at the bottom, the cost of the subsidy keeps rising.
    — Jason Deparle, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • And given high prices for EVs, subsidies are mainly a giveaway to the already well-off.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Transport costs have risen sharply since the end of fuel subsidies was announced weeks ago.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 7 July 2023
  • What are the policies in the U.S. that are creating that weight towards a carbon tax rather than a carbon subsidy?
    — Time, 6 Aug. 2023
  • In the early years, rents from tenants and state subsidies were enough to keep the buildings in decent condition.
    — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
  • Lax state oversight of state subsidies is one big reason.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Fourth, the higher prices even with various subsidies are a problem.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Ghasemi: First of all, the subsidies are a U.S. phenomenon.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Is the current impasse still over IMF demands for Tunisia to curb government subsidies?
    — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
  • The Hyundai package has already been described as the largest subsidy package a U.S. state has ever promised an automotive plant.
    — Byruss Bynum, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • These subsidies lower the cost of premiums for enrollees.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
  • The local military base, which occupies one-fifth of the town grounds, brings in subsidies that help offset the cost of maintaining public works.
    — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Certain campaign promises aimed at them, like forgiveness of student loan debt and subsidies for child care, were struck down by the Supreme Court or didn’t pass in Congress.
    — Francesca Paris, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The new rule also calls for streamlining the paperwork required to apply and reapply for child care subsidies.
    — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The plan squarely targets the climate, health and tax bill that Democrats passed along party lines last summer by cutting that bill’s energy subsidies.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In October, government labor unions reached a deal with the government to end strikes in return for monthly stipends and subsidies to cushion the blow of the new policies.
    — Dyepkazah Shibayan, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2024
  • In order to ensure the security and longevity of the network, transaction fees will need to increase and replace the dwindling block subsidy.
    — Leeor Shimron, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • The company has surged alongside the rapid rise of China’s EV sector, bolstered by government tax breaks and subsidies.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Just last week, major hospital chains said those expenses, known as physician subsidies, were up 20% to 40% from last year.
    — Tara Bannow, STAT, 30 Oct. 2023
  • For each toddler, a child care center in Western Massachusetts receives a subsidy of $61.16 per day.
    — Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • This reliance on subsidies and export controls has risks.
    — Christopher Thomas, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Deloitte has practiced what its report preaches for a while; the consulting firm has offered a well-being subsidy for nearly two decades and doubled it last year.
    — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Farmer subsidies for fat/sugar food ingredients, and a clamp down or tax on fat fast-food merchants like McDonalds etc. etc.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 16 Dec. 2023

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