had been subsidizing
- past perfect progressive of subsidize.
Example Sentences
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Last June Congress abrogated all 31 ocean mail contracts by which the U. S. Government had been subsidizing U. S. shipping at an annual cost of $20,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alan Clark indignantly claimed that the government had been "subsidizing the extravagant life-style of a lot of American con men."
From Time Magazine Archive
