Sentence examples for appropriation for the first from inspiring English sources

As Vice President of Development & External Affairs for Staten Island University Hospital, Gary raised nearly $20 million, including a federal appropriation for the first dedicated pediatric emergency room on the Island and led the campaign for Care and Healing to expand emergency services to the Borough's 500,000 residents and build the hospital's first library and education center.

NASA's budget depends on federal appropriations, and for the first time in a decade there was no money to go to Mars: a sample-return mission, originally slated for 2016, had been cancelled after the financial crisis.

He approved the appropriation of funding for the first Kentucky State Fair, which was seen as a vehicle for encouraging improvements in agriculture.

This year's defense appropriation spells out, for the first time, a roadmap for DoD's incremental adoption of the next-generation protocol.

In 2012, the first appropriation for the bullet train passed the state Senate by a single vote after three Democrats who were backers of the high-speed rail project withdrew their support.

WASHINGTON — A legislative overhaul of the United States Patent and Trademark Office moved toward completion in the House on Tuesday when members of the two important committees agreed to keep the office subject to annual appropriations but to end for the first time the diversion of patent fees to other uses.

As the act also provides, Royal Assent is to be signified by the governor general, or, more often, by a deputy, usually a Justice of the Supreme Court —in the Senate (as the sovereign is traditionally barred from the House of Commons. ) at least twice each calendar year: for the first appropriation measure and for at least one other act, usually the first non-appropriation measure passed.

Congress is expected to approve an appropriation of up to $200 million for the first three years of the deal.

The long Congressional appropriation season is opening, and for the first time in recent memory the President has proposed a budget in which the NIH might lose less ground to inflation.

Nine are senior to all Wyoming appropriations except the first 103 second feet for the oldest appropriators; only about 200 second feet of Wyoming appropriations are senior to these Nebraska appropriations.

In her first day in office, Watson was put through a dizzying schedule, and she also cast her first congressional vote on an appropriation for the Coast Guard.