Sentence examples for aid designated for from inspiring English sources

President Trump complained in a private lunch Tuesday with Senate Republicans about the amount of disaster aid designated for Puerto Rico, as lawmakers prepare for a standoff over funds for the island that is still struggling to recover in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, according to officials familiar with the meeting.

Approval of the bond issue enables the Sachem district to receive $5 million from the state's Excel aid program designated for capital projects and $21.6 million in state building aid.

Some of the state aid is designated for specific programs, like universal prekindergarten, "but on Long Island, most districts don't have pre-K, and that money must be subtracted," he said.

A former USAID official, Salcedo administered a multi-million annual aid package designated for Afro development initiatives and secured by the US Congressional Black Caucus.

And importantly, it provides a focal point for the distribution of aid, so that we can be sure that children, who are most vulnerable in conflicts, are receiving aid that is designated for them.

Then there is Mr. Sissi's flirtation with Mr. Putin, which, as the bipartisan group of senators said in their letter, "risk making [Egypt] a Russian dependency once again". U.S. military aid is mostly designated for weapons purchases, yet Mr. Sissi would buy Sukhoi SU-35 jets in defiance of congressional legislation mandating sanctions.

The Bloomberg administration has not disclosed the names of companies designated for aid, or the amounts, but the candidates include the financial giants Merrill Lynch, American Express, Goldman Sachs and the Bank of New York; Aon, the insurance broker; and the law firms Thacher Proffitt & Wood and Pillsbury Winthrop.

At the lunch Tuesday, Trump rattled off the amount of aid that had been designated for other disaster-hit states and compared it with the amount allocated for Puerto Rico following the 2017 hurricane, which he said was too high, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private meeting.

He said that his wife merely sat on the board of the local aid agency and that only "a tiny fraction" of the food he transported was designated for that aid agency.

In each case, 50percentto80percentcent of the total was designated for financial aid.

To that end, the majority of Griffin's gift has been designated for financial aid.