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Some required billions of dollars of international support.

It is costing Yemen billions of dollars every month.

For one thing, their domestic production receives billions of dollars in subsidies.

Billions of dollars have been committed for assistance to the affected communities.

Data are in billions of international dollars and were calculated by the IMF.

Over a few days, the Tunisian regime that invested billions of dollars in the security agencies, billions of dollars in maintaining, trying to maintain, its prisons, collapsed, disappeared, because of the voices of the public.

Giving emission allowances is like giving away money potentially hundreds of billions of dollars.

Extra hundreds of billions of dollars have been injected into banks worldwide by this means.

We will waste hundreds of billions of dollars, worsen global warming, and dramatically increase starvation.

The US gave billions of dollars of aid to rebuild war ravaged countries in Europe.

During the three day conference, billions of dollars were pledged in support of Egypt's economy.

Yes, acute in Montana. Toxic problems from mine waste have caused damage of billions of dollars.

At last month s International Donors Conference in Brussels, they pledged billions of dollars of reconstruction aid.

But such an allocation would implicitly transfer hundreds of billions of dollars from rich to poor.

Table 3 Private remittance flows to Africa, 1998 2003 (In billions of United States dollars)a

We estimate that literally billions of dollars every year are devoted to promoting this view of religion.

The eight year Iran Iraq War killed hundreds of thousands and cost the country billions of dollars.

Also important is the harm done to economies, as countries are incurring losses of billions of dollars.

As we have a very large economy, that involves tens of billions of dollars in additional assistance.

The United States government pays billions of dollars to cotton growers, mainly in California, Texas, and Mississippi.

So billions of dollars were poured into new developments in remote locations where nobody wants to live.

The root problem is that financial markets can now mobilize tens of billions of dollars for speculative purposes.

At a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars annually, it will have virtually no impact on climate change.

No one knows precisely the Mexican drug cartels annual profits, but they certainly amount to billions of dollars.

President Barack Obama s administration has thrown billions of dollars at wind, solar, ethanol, and other alternative energy resources.

Indeed, China has been pouring billions of dollars into developing the oil and gas fields of Iraq and Iran.

Revenue estimates for a small tax on international currency transactions run into hundreds of billions of dollars per year.

Figure 3 United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund evolution of income and benefit payments (Billions of United States dollars)

Mercenaries who go around killing civilians without any accountability are being paid with billions of U.S. tax payer dollars.

The recovery process and the rehabilitation and reconstruction work will take many years and cost many billions of dollars.

America managed to pass off bad mortgages worth hundreds of billions of dollars to investors (including banks) around the world.

The former point to economic development the latter maintain that tens, even hundreds, of billions of dollars have been squandered.

Second, new public mechanisms can mobilize tens of billions of dollars annually, an important step towards the 100 billion goal.

Part of modern medicine s success is built on new drugs, in which pharmaceutical companies invest billions of dollars on research.

During the Green Revolution of the 1940s to 1970s, billions of dollars had been spent building large scale irrigation systems.

China has invested billions of dollars in African oil production, mining, transportation, electricity production and transmission, telecommunications, and other infrastructure.

If experts cannot agree that there is a climate crisis, why should governments spend billions of dollars to address it?

Renewables cut air pollution, which is costing the global economy billions of dollars a year in health care costs alone.

Notably, billions of dollars of public property are at stake, owing to a privatization plan designed by former President Dimitri Medvedev.

Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia owe an average of 150 of their GDP, and servicing the debt swallows billions of dollars annually.

In fact, all are squandering billions of dollars on modernization of their nuclear forces, making a mockery of United Nations disarmament pledges.