(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.
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(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.