Sentence examples for While earmarking from inspiring English sources

The Senate, by contrast, has set aside no money for the program while earmarking more than $300 million in new aid for federal prisons.

The late John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a former chairman of the Armed Services Committee, was a Democratic legend at milking defense donors for political money while earmarking and protecting even their most bloated interests in runaway Pentagon budgets.

Since then, the city has sold large plots of the former air base to other developers, while earmarking yet other parcels for future sale to help pay for the new business district.

Equally worryingly, a government agency is claiming the power to keep to itself a tool that can potentially break security features on millions of phones, while earmarking a demand for further judicial or legislative intervention in the future.

Until, that is, the chancellor last week asked for sacrifices from plainly deserving disabled people, many of them in work, while earmarking most of the proceeds for capital gains tax reductions, which favour executives who can swap income for share options.

By extending the program, reducing the "cap" on emissions over time, and steadily increasing the price floor for allowances, this compromise will fund the future of clean energy and emissions reductions across California – while earmarking at least 35% ($9 billion) of these funds for disadvantaged and low-income communities.

Trump's proposal would open the government through Sept. 30, while also earmarking $5.7 billion for a border wall, granting temporary deportation protections to about 1 million undocumented immigrants and altering asylum rules — a new wrinkle that Democrats described as a non-starter.

While earmarks amount to a trickle in the government's flood of red ink — slightly more than three-tenths of 1 percent of federal spending — most of that money would still be expended by federal agencies in the absence of earmarks but without specific directions from Congress.

While earmarks have aroused controversy in the past, the drive to eliminate them gathered momentum in Congress this year with the arrival of newly elected Republicans like Ms. Hayworth, who campaigned on a platform of belt-tightening, including an explicit pledge to abstain from earmarking.

Over at The New York Times, columnist Thomas Edsall notes that while earmark reform (along with various, equally demented deregulations of campaign finance law) has been sold as something that would inevitably lead to people becoming less cynical about American politics, it hasn't lived up to the hype.

While Indonesia earmarked 1.8 per cent of its GDP in this way, Denmark put aside a significant 168.9 per cent of its GDP.