"appropriation of funds" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used in formal contexts, particularly in financial or governmental documents. Example: "The government's appropriation of funds for the development of infrastructure has been met with criticism from taxpayers."
A federal investigation into the City Council's appropriation of funds to fictitious groups should conclude within 90 days, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
Those programs will be scrutinized by the Office of Management and Budget, then by the President before they are sent to Congress for debate and appropriation of funds.
Normally, one would expect that a dispute between the legislative and executive branches over the appropriation of funds would be resolved politically.
The bill authorizes the intelligence agencies to establish and extend programs in 1987 and sets limits on the subsequent appropriation of funds in separate legislation.
Appropriation of funds for these ACA programs and others would help to expand current education programs and establish new ones for rapidly growing occupations.
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.
Delays in the appropriation of funding delayed the second phase of the structural restoration until June 2005; and the work was conducted from July through early November.
He approved the appropriation of funding for the first Kentucky State Fair, which was seen as a vehicle for encouraging improvements in agriculture.
A tiered health care system that ensures a suitable appropriation of funding for tertiary and quaternary health care is therefore essential.
"In accordance with the terms of these bonds, the transfer was not made due to the non-appropriation of funds," said Melba Acosta Febo, head of the Government Development Bank.
Initially tuition at the school was free, funded by various endowments and rents obtained from lands the most significant arising from the Abolition of the Chantries Acts, and the re-appropriation of funds to the school.
