Sentence examples for earmark a from inspiring English sources

Potential buyers can earmark a building, street or neighborhood they're interested in, and post offers online.

He read in Sylvia Porter's financial column that when she didn't earmark a certain sum for saving in U.S. bonds, it just frittered away in dribs & drabs.

Taxpayers would still be able to earmark a certain percentage of their tax money for the church, so it would still receive public financing.

Mr. Bond told the jury that he had decided whether to earmark a trade to his account or his clients' accounts before he bought a stock.

But unlike Botswana, which is happy to have its stones mixed with those from other countries, both its neighbours have decided to earmark a portion of their own production for local manufacturing.

California's redevelopment law lets city officials designate a zone as "blighted" and then earmark a portion of property taxes generated in that zone — money that would otherwise be divided among the state, county and cities — for redevelopment projects.

"Frankly, I find his defense of his efforts as 'not an earmark' an ironic bit of parsing," Mr. Schultz said.

Gov. Snyder said the state's new budget would earmark an additional $195 million for Flint, Reuters reported.

He used an "earmark" -- a provision in a 2003 spending bill -- to let the Pentagon hire a private firm to review its foreign suppliers.

"This is a prime example of an earmark for a foreign company," Grijalva said.

"No matter what you want to call it, an earmark is an earmark," said Mr. Flake, a longtime foe of earmarks.