Sentence examples for Government appropriations from inspiring English sources

The public plan could not be supported by tax revenues or government appropriations but by premiums and co-payments.

The bill pending in the Senate, which was incorporated into a general government appropriations bill, is similar to legislation already approved by the House.

Buried in the fine print of the government appropriations bill now heading for passage is a potent measure of the gun lobby's muscle in the Republican-controlled Congress.

In actual practice, however, there have at times been substantial deficits in the special accounts that have had to be covered by direct government appropriations, borrowings, and transfers of funds from one account to another.

Because a vast majority of F.B.S. colleges are public institutions, relying on state and local government appropriations for a quarter or more of their total revenue, popular support (or a lack thereof) can have critical financial implications.

Teachers, school aides and administrators are often just as powerless, said Patricia Cathers, the director of programs and volunteer services at Child Abuse Prevention Services in Roslyn, a nonprofit private agency supported by donations, grants and government appropriations.

"There needs to be a government appropriation that deals with the safety and financial issues of the Postal Service," Ms. Link said.

Servitudes usually arise out of agreements between owners and users but may also be created by prescription (i.e., by open use of someone else's property for a specified period of time) or by eminent domain (i.e., government appropriation of private property for public use).

A1 Violence at China Protest Protests by villagers in China's southern industrial heartland over government appropriation of their land exploded into violence as thousands of police officers with automatic weapons and electric stun batons suppressed the demonstrations, residents of the village said.

No government appropriation paid for a burial plot.

In most systems, however, legislatures also have other tasks, such as selection and criticism of the government, supervision of administration, appropriation of funds, ratification of treaties, impeachment of executive and judicial officials, acceptance or refusal of executive nominations, determination of election procedures, and public hearings on petitions.