Sentence examples for agencies dipping from inspiring English sources
"We see agencies dipping their toes".
Yes, various agencies have dipped into emergency funds to put off some of the pain.
Staff levels at GAO, which has uncovered corruption and billions of dollars in waste at government agencies, will dip below 3,000 for the first time in its 75-year history, said Dodaro.
In the drought, the Sonoma agency has dipped into reserves to offset the decline in revenues: $6 million last year alone.
The higher price, which will require the authority to dip into a contingency fund for the project for the first time, represents a 5.5 percent increase from the agency's last estimate of $3.26 billion, issued in 2008.
Lawmakers hope a reserve fund will make it less likely the Forest Service and other federal agencies will have to dip into other parts of their budgets that are dear to lawmakers to pay for fighting fires.
Intelligence officials, alarmed that their work has been turned into a political football, defend their approach, noting that senior administration officials receive daily briefings that reflect the consensus of the nation's array of intelligence agencies, but can also dip into the fast-moving stream of field reports, with the caveat that that information is incomplete and may be flat wrong.
As the Center for American Progress report notes, many agencies were able to minimize the pain of sequestration by using accounting gimmicks or dipping into emergency funds.
Robert Foran, the agency's chief financial officer, told board members that he would fill part of the gap by dipping into $33 million in reserve funds.
