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If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you're reciting.

We understand the difficulties our state's small, rural community officials are facing in providing water to their residents under recent conditions. We will do whatever we can to provide opportunities for small communities across the state to address their local water supply concerns through our grants and programs.

We don't want this argument to be obscured by those who would suggest that anyone who is for more and more government power is somehow on the side of the right, and those who are against it or are skeptical of such grants are on the side of the wrong. This is an important question of all Americans on the left, the right or in the middle.

We have grants for athletes and that reaches through to 300 athletes now in New Zealand - that's a huge step forward for us.

We would fund the whole project with grants and funds.

Why are they doing this review if not to cut benefits? ... Remember these were claims that were allowed at the time. They are also not going back to review claims that they denied and should not have been. . . . I think this is going to make VA decision-makers tighter with their grants for disability payments.

Too many youth groups are fighting to keep their doors open at a time when their services are needed more than ever. These grants are meant to help the healers and enable more children to stay engaged in activities - especially during the summer - that keep them learning and playing, which is the best medicine for recovery from this disaster.

This year we gave over $50,000 in grants across the country through the Journey of Hope.

This year, State Street further strengthened its commitment to the communities where it does business through hundreds of grants to charitable organizations. We maintained our strategic focus on improving the lives of the less advantaged, but were also able to provide prompt relief assistance to the victims of several major natural disasters.

We had $21,000 in funds at the end of 2002, and we had $392,000 at the end of 2005. And the grants that we've made have grown from $500 in 2002 to $190,000 in 2005.

We have several area foundations that have supported us as well as grants from our area members.

Factors like low inflation and lower interest rates will continue to give consumers more spending power while government initiatives like public spending and increased social grants should also provide support.

Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.

The government doesn't give out grants without you filling out lots of paperwork and with some reason.

The grants will enhance open space and environmental resources and create urban and suburban corridors for more hiking, biking and horseback riding opportunities, ... Autumn is a beautiful time of year to get out and experience nature at its best.

The grants being awarded Thursday will fund critical local projects to protect and restore the state's natural resources and educate our citizens on natural stewardship.

Weve had a lot of flood mitigation issues, and this grant will go a long way toward solving some of them. But its going to take several years, and probably several more grants like this one, to completely solve the problem. I think what this really demonstrates is the strength of a council willing to work together to identify important issues and then find ways to address them.

Women and Company is proud to participate in this program because we believe all women should have the opportunity to achieve their financial goals. More and more women are finding they can begin to achieve financial independence by starting their own businesses, and these grants can have a practical and immediate impact as they strive to grow these businesses.

To my knowledge, every member of management in this company believes that at the time we collectively followed appropriate practices for those option grants which affected all of our employees.

We will also pursue grants to help pay the cost.

We fully support the reintroduction of grants for needy students, but my heavens, (they are) unbelievably narrowly targeted,

There have been little donations or grants and no sugar daddies. That's virtually unheard of in the theater business.

We are applying to the state for grants that will help offset the cost of those folks who can't afford it.

We had quite a few opportunities to score runs, and fortunately we came through on two of them. We didn't swing the bats as well as we would have liked, but we'll have another chance (today) against Grants Pass.

Both CEI and the Genesis Fund have proven track records in providing financing services to support affordable housing and community development projects in target Maine communities, ... CEI will use its grant to supply equity capital for its affordable housing initiatives in Western Maine. The Genesis Fund grant will enable the organization to provide permanent financing for both affordable housing and community facility projects in underserved Maine communities. These CDFI grants are yet another example of how a modest investment of federal aid can go a long way in making it possible for Maine people to address important community needs.

Being a self-supporting artist, I had to go slowly, step by step, to reach my goal. Now we are working to become a nonprofit organization and get grants to teach this wonderful art to kids and youth.

As time went on, those grants became less available and finally disappeared.

Episcopal Relief and Development immediately gave $25,000 grants to three different dioceses in the area, ... and churches across the country are taking in people and sending caravans of people to help out.

England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington.

Essentially, it's just an information session. It's not about just filling out a form, but how it affects the students' financial aid packages as far as scholarships, grants and loans. It also emphasizes the importance of getting it done. There are different requirements for different things.

The word is out, and we are trying to make it known that these grants are available for this important drug education. I don't know how many institutions or organizations will apply and be approved, but it will be as many as we can have. We really want people to respond and submit applications as soon as possible.

The school itself gave me $31,027, and federal grants are expected to total about $5,600.

These stock option grants are an insult and add injury in a market of skyrocketing healthcare costs in America ... we find this intolerable and unsustainable.

These search services -- even the legitimate ones - should be viewed as a supplement. If parents and students are willing to do the work themselves, they can find out more about grants and scholarships than any service could.

The teachers were just shocked and saddened and we tried everything we could. The board tried to see if we could get some sort of short-term infusion until we could secure money from grants promised for later in the year.

The table's already set for us. If the court grants the government's motion to dismiss, than it would be over unless the state appeals.

So that a database on lobbyists on campaign contributions on government grants and contracts are all accessible through the push of one button.

Our agreement with Paul is that we will seek grants to pay him.

Again, these are safety issues that are costing firefighters' lives. And Congress rightfully so set aside these grants for these particular things.

Administrators for those grants can literally come here and see where the needs are and apply funds to things we need immediately.

The old saying that capital is the most timid thing in the world and does not like pioneering is strongly emphasized by such instances as this, and no doubt in 1864 the enormous grants of free land made by Congress did not appear especially attractive to the man who had money to invest.

Acquiring grants has been difficult lately, ... However, community groups are beginning to help us out. Lester Johnson, chief executive officer for Douglass National Bank is giving money to help run the clubs, such as the Greater Pentecostal Community Family Club in the area.

A couple of the grants are based on your GPA from high school, so basically it's affordable if you worked hard in high school.

So you can go to college on Pell Grants - maybe I should not be telling anybody this because it's turning out to be the welfare of the 21st century.

Develop a simple plan to fully identify expenses and match to available savings, income, scholarships and grants so as not to overspend and create a situation where there is little or no money for future months. Control spending.

Despite spending more than $6.5 billion since 2001, these grants have not been able to demonstrate an impact on crime.

The Cabinet decision today grants the army the freedom to act as it sees fit from the operational point of view in the Gaza Strip, the freedom to operate without any restriction. The goal we should all share at the moment is that on Sept. 1, every child will find his place in school.

The big thing is grants that are tied to this, meetings that are tied to this. You know those deadlines don't change. They're not particularly sympathetic to that.

This is the first generation to shoulder the costs of college primarily through interest-bearing loans rather than federal grants that don't have to be repaid.

This is not an area that's going to be revitalized with a coat of paint and some grants to improve a few houses, ... That is not going to work, and nothing that has happened in the last few years has changed my mind.

The way these grants work is that it takes about a year to get any money. Typically you apply in the spring and you get the money sometime in the autumn.

This district has more grants than districts three times its size,

This first set of Transparency Grants will help us leverage the tremendous resources of these organizations and make their work more readily accessible and usable to the media and, most importantly, citizens. We will continue to search for organizations and ideas that bring the everyday dealings of Congress under public scrutiny.

A lot of people want to donate to this and it won't take a lot of cash to do this because of in-kind grants and donations.

There will actually be more money for student loans than ever before. Access to grants is increasing.

There's a possibility of getting some grants and recalling some of the employees. We're hoping this is temporary.

It's a perfect marriage between HUD and Habitat in that the grants offer families a hand up, not a hand out.

It recognizes that there are individual households that have emergencies that come up throughout the year and so Montgomery County is eligible for this grant. The goal of these grants is to keep people from becoming homeless for one more month, so they won't lose their home or electricity.

It is vitally important, our relationship with the United Way. We depend completely on the United Way as our fund-raising component. We ... use our donated moneys as matching funds for our state and federal grants training programs. In other words, for every dollar I receive, I can generate an additional $6 to $10, which ... goes into the operational make-up and funding for our programs.

Congress has no incentive to rein in pork, because pork helps lawmakers get campaign contributions and get re-elected. It is entirely predictable that Congress would create the illusion of reform while retaining the system that allows them to sell government grants for campaign contributions.

The New York Education Grants have been extremely successful in helping to provide unique Broadway experiences to young people, many of whom may not have had the opportunity to go to the theatre before. Education programs are crucial for the growth and survival of Broadway, as they encourage young people to develop a lifelong appreciation of the arts.

The benefits of technology training extend far beyond the individual who attends the courses at the centers -- they improve the social and economic opportunities of entire families, businesses and communities. These grants support the hard work of our local partners to provide the tools and training to foster true economic empowerment in all types of communities, from small, rural villages to urban areas in developed regions.

The airport is like Ride Line in that there are many, many grants out there. We're constantly trying to figure out how we can utilize them the best.

I've heard about $750,000 goes to Mill Race Crossing and about $100,000 to the city, plus there a few other grants that I don't know about.

I've done everything out of my own pocket. Nobody gave me any money, but I wanted it so bad, I couldn't wait for grants or anything.

It takes everyone doing their part to get these types of competitive grants that other airports were trying to get.

It turned out it was easier to write the grants because we were proposing bringing a lot of different people and disciplines together in one spot. I think we'll garner even more interest and research dollars working with people on campus and around the world once they see what we can do here.

The value of these well-equipped and highly trained men and women was demonstrated last spring when dry, windy conditions spawned brush fires in every county, ... These grants are a sound investment in an invaluable service.

They are learning experiences, ... You find out what other cities are doing to improve their government and you find out what grants are available. You get to talk with other council members and mayors to see what they're doing to make things better.

These organizations have demonstrated their ability to deliver high-quality services to residents of Lancaster County, Fort Lawn and Great Falls. We are confident that these grants will yield significant benefits.

Individual donations and grants from charitable organizations helped us and pay for the observatory's operation. They have been the main source of support.

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

In the last several years, the federal government has awarded some $11 billion in grants to federal, state and local authorities to improve emergency preparedness, response and recovery capabilities.

In particular, they have expressed concern about legal challenges to the distribution of stem-cell grants under California's Proposition 71. This issue needs to be reviewed thoughtfully and prudently.

In the 13 years that the recycling grants have been presented, we've awarded 245 grants, totaling more than $20 million.

In fact grants per home to private developers compare very equitably with grants per home to housing association developments for similar areas and types of schemes.

Because Maine is such a rural state, residents often do not have the same access to the arts that people in more urban areas might. Grants awarded by the NEA allow entities throughout Maine to showcase various artistic endeavors to communities throughout the state.

Byrne grants and COPS are the two most important sources of federal funds to boost police and sheriff forces throughout our country, ... one of the gravest threats facing the nation today.

Byrne formula grants have long proven to be invaluable to law enforcement agencies in Nebraska in their efforts to fight against the influx of methamphetamine in our communities. Given the critical role Byrne grants play, I joined Rep. Terry and a number of my colleagues in sending a letter to the House and Senate appropriators urging them to fund Byrne formula grants at $900 million.

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

If he is called, either because I want to examine him, or because the commissioner grants any application that might be made(to cross-examine Mr Howard), I hope we can do it on Thursday.

If God grants His Grace, then He is enshrined within my heart.

If finances are a question, which they seem to be because grants are shrinking, this is a direction to go. Seniors have indicated they don't mind paying $1 or $2 each way, and that's a bargain.

I fear that the failure to expense stock option grants has introduced a significant distortion in reported earnings,

I can not submit this on behalf of the board of directors, but am submitting it as a concerned citizen. People really need to write their Congressman if they don't want to end up paying an even larger tax increase of some sort, just to support the fire departments. We really do count on these grants to assist in our needs.

I am meeting my students of Iraq to announce to them a few important steps that we have taken, including allocation of funds to send students to do further studies and scholarships abroad, ... I just signed 100 million dollars ... to support the grants and scholarships.

He also doubled the amount of money available to rural communities for grants to help them find new ways to add value and market products created on farms and small?town businesses.

Governor Rell created the bipartisan Commission on Education Finance to find better, fairer ways of distributing state funds for local education. Everyone agrees that more fairness can be injected into the way grants are calculated, and Gov. Rell feels this Commission is the best approach for exploring all options.

Grants Pass played real well, and we struggled against their triangle-and-two defense. We did not have a lot of answers and we were frustrated by it. We tried to force things and committed some turnovers.

The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.