(1) This is code for so-called "helicopter drops" of money, in which the Treasury would effectively write cheques to the public.
(2) You're staring at the five-figure pay cheque you'll get… if… If!
(3) The video ends with: "It begins with us" – a message that suggests Obama needs activists willing to knock on doors, rather than just write cheques to cover the estimated $1bn (£620m) cost of the campaign.
(4) It would also authorise the use of US forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes, or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.” The White House insists the AUMF does not confer authority for “long-term, large-scale ground combat operations”, but the language has already raised concerns among Democrats that it gives the White House another “blank cheque” for open-ended war wherever it chooses.
(5) But Saeid Golkar, lecturer at Northwestern University in the United States and senior fellow at Chicago Council on Global Affairs, believes the ‘pay cheque scandal’ may have indirectly revealed another potential ‘principle-ist’ contender in Parviz Fattah, head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee.
(6) Talk rarely tends this way with an actor who’s found a good slot, more inclined as a result to play safe and spray out buttery praise in all directions, at co-stars, crew, studios, cheque-signers.
(7) Tory hedge fund and multimillionaire donors will face no similar restrictions, leaving boards free to write hefty cheques backing the Tory party.
(8) As good a way as any would have been to have followed the Twitter feed of one of his backbench MPs, Gloria De Piero, who was tweeting: “The government has a mandate to open Brexit negotiations but not a blank cheque that puts jobs, workers’ rights and our economy at risk.” Instead, he chose to go for a feeble joke.
(9) Second, although businesses will write the cheque for the employers' increased NI contributions, they might not actually pay.
(10) In Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg , Germany, Austria, France and Ireland the number of Britons banking unemployment cheques is almost three times as high as the nationals of those countries receiving parallel UK benefits – 23,011 Britons to 8,720 nationals of those nine countries in the UK.
(11) Mackay's team stand four points outside the relegation zone, and Mackay was hoping he would receive the board's cheque-book backing midway through the campaign.
(12) Although it will include some $150bn in tax relief for people on low and middle incomes, the Obama administration's emphasis on spending marks a shift from the approach of George Bush, who tried to stimulate the economy over the summer simply by sending out millions of tax rebate cheques.
(13) Various Voices: Prose, Poetry and Politics 1948-98 is published by Faber (£9.99).To order it at the special price of £7.99 plus 99p p&p, freephone 0500 600 102 or send a cheque payable to The Guardian CultureShop to 250 Western Avenue, London, W3 6EE.
(14) Other money was spent on political campaigns in unions and in the ALP.” Jackson withdrew a total $239,837 in cashed cheques, gave $100 each to branch committee of management members at meetings, and kept the balance in a “kitty”.
(15) But the UK will not be writing any blank cheques, as Cameron showed when he vetoed a proposed amendment to the Lisbon treaty last December that would have embedded the new eurozone fiscal compact within the architecture of the EU.
(16) "They are the ones who sign my cheque Mom, they are the ones who help me support my family."
(17) In response to his demand, anti-gay marriage organisers urged supporters to send cheques for between 10 centimes and €1 to the Paris city hall; about 9,000 people did so.
(18) No, my question is why, at the point when the Treasury wrote the banks those cheques, it didn't make the conditions binding.
(19) Last week, the poet laureate joined the three judges of the Ted Hughes award to hand this year’s winner a cheque for £5,000.
(20) As students across Britain began closing accounts at the bank, HSBC reacted by freezing interest on overdrafts Letter chain Millions of template letters downloaded from internet sites - including theguardian.com - forced the banks into this week's court case to clarify the legal basis of charges such as those for bounced cheques and direct debits.
(2) Hollande’s dinner and overnight stay at Chequers was also due to cover a strategy for Syria in light of growing signs that the president, Bashar al-Assad, is being shored up by additional military help from Russia and Iran.
(3) The manager may feel that given Van Persie’s chequered injury record he requires another elite striker in Falcao.
(4) Yet, the White House appears to be scrambling to set up infrastructure that can support such a conversation and has placed its trust in a body with a chequered history of independent scrutiny.
(5) Chequer-board titrations show that the in vitro activity of ciprofloxacin against Mycobacterium tuberculosis is independent of that of streptomycin, isoniazid, ethambutol and pyrazinamide and confirm that there is antagonism between ciprofloxacin and rifampicin.
(6) A most attacking left-back, the Dutchman has been culpable for the concession of quite a few goals during his distinctly chequered time on Wearside but, equally, scores his fair share.
(7) Investors were also spooked by a chequered sales performance as breakneck growth stuttered at home and abroad.
(8) 19 July 2001 George Bush visit to Chequers Bush … said he had been very tough with Putin, claimed he had told him: "If you carry on arming rogue states, you're going to end up eating your own metal."
(9) Komoroske and a neighbour researched the new arrival's chequered past, the basis of which, she said, made a mockery of the decision to award him residency in New Zealand.
(10) Most of the time, he has hugged Johnson close – notably in September 2012, when he invited the mayor’s whole family to Chequers, seeking his support for the renegotiation and referendum strategy unveiled in the Bloomberg speech of January 2013 .
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Xi Jinping and David Cameron drink pints of beer at a pub in Princess Risborough, near Chequers, in October 2015.
(12) Meaning: Crosby does not attend official ministerial meetings but is free to visit Downing Street and Chequers when invited.
(13) For this reason, the concentrations of low affinity antibodies would be underestimated using the chequer-board titration.
(14) There is, however, some hope to be found in the republic's chequered history.
(15) In addition to asking Heywood about the document, Labour is also expected to ask for details of how often Crosby has attended meetings in Downing Street and Chequers.
(16) We started off perhaps with half a step in the wrong direction,” said Lord Strathclyde, the former Tory leader of the House of Lords, who warned the prime minister at a Chequers meeting of Tory MPs and peers shortly after the referendum that he needed to act with care.
(17) It is understood that Cameron broadly knew why Mitchell wished to see him at Chequers, and carried this news with him through the EU summit.
(18) While my race time will not bother the history books, I don’t think I actually came last and, when that final chequered flag waved, I could happily have carried on for a few more laps.
(19) We like the Conservatives’ emphasis on maintaining a competitive corporation tax environment, but have concerns around some of the unhelpful rhetoric on immigration.” Sorrell has previously sat on the prime minister’s business advisory group and, with his wife, has been a guest of the Camerons at Chequers.
(20) Even before the 2008 legal dispute, Trump’s chequered business record was infamous.