The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

Financial problems reappeared in 1932 and the company was rescued by L. Prideaux Brune who funded the company for the following year before passing the company on to Sir Arthur Sutherland.

He ensured roadways were begun, aqueducts were constructed or improved, and that a new mosque was well funded in his capital at Córdoba.

This contrasts with the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition in 1860 – 61 which was much better funded, but resulted in the deaths of three of the members of the transcontinental party.

Although Ireland was overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, the Protestant Church remained the established church and was funded by direct taxation.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

Sky News claimed that a number of British cable operators had been incentivised to carry News 24 ( which, as a licence-fee funded channel was made available to such operators for free ) in preference to the commercial Sky News.

However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law.

The bridge was largely funded by Basel's Jewish community which had settled there a century earlier.

The wing was funded entirely by Oliver Postgate using royalties received from the BBC.

Construction was undertaken by Patagonia Ferrocanal SA, formed and funded by the province.

About one-third of the assistance was used for democratization efforts, and another 5 % funded financial sector restructuring.

Members of CAC led the ESA funded CACTEX ( Chalmers Aerospace Club Thermal EXperiment ) project where the thermal conductivity of alcohol at zero gravity was investigated using a sounding rocket.

In the same year, a bill was introduced in the California Legislature calling for the establishment of a publicly funded " California Institute of Technology ," with an initial budget of a million dollars, ten times the budget of Throop at the time.

He was trained, supported and funded by the white regimes in South Africa ( SA ) and Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) in return for permission to set up a secret listening post on the islands.

The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United Kingdom in addition to the television licence – funded BBC's two services and the single commercial broadcasting network, ITV.

In 2010 a skatepark was built in the village, funded by the Cheddar Local Action Team.

" The CPS attracted criticism for refusing to say where its funding came from while alleging that the anti-nuclear movement was funded by the Soviet Union.

Although the CPS called itself a grass-roots movement, it had no members and was financed by The 61, " a private sector operational intelligence agency " said by its founder, Brian Crozier, to be funded by " rich individuals and a few private companies ".

" The architect fee was the second to be funded by the Cummins Engine Foundation.

In an effort to determine why this was occurring, the United States Air Force funded a study at the SEI.

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

The office was of logs, four rooms, each heated by an iron stove.

The building was dwarfed by the scene outside.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Even Hague was repelled by the machinelike deadliness that was Kodyke.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

It was secured by an oversized padlock.

The rustling problem was by no means solved.

Jess's coarse features twisted in a surprised grin which was smashed out of shape by Curt's fist.

Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.

The truth was, the puncher was both bewildered and dismayed by his own mixed luck.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.