Sentence examples for earmark a few from inspiring English sources

Mr. Fallows, the author of the lead article, "The New College Chaos," writes that while a "more open market for college admissions" is fairer than the days when "Exeter's headmaster could earmark a few dozen of each year's seniors for admission to Harvard," other changes "undermine what had been fundamental ideals and values".

The club are believed to have earmarked a few candidates but it is never advisable to make assumptions about O'Neill's plans.

However, as part of its support to opposition and civil-society groups in 2011, the UK Foreign Office earmarked a few hundred thousand pounds to fund training for Syrian human rights lawyers and activists to research and record war crimes.

Since Sept.11, Russian officials have begun lobbying hard to expand the program of American aid to include protection of these lower-grade materials, and the Bush administration has earmarked a few million dollars to study the problem.

Up until the tea party-led ban on earmarks a few years ago, McConnell played out this dichotomy across Kentucky.

But that effort foundered after the university's president at the time, Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, asked Senator Edward M. Kennedy to finance it through a budget earmark for "a few million dollars," Mr. Trachtenberg recalled.

There are still a few earmarks that could be rescinded.

"Let's not kid ourselves and suggest that we can solve this problem by trimming a few earmarks or cutting the budget for the National Endowment for the Arts," he said.

The state earmarks the money for a few dozen categories, allowing districts to spend the money for only those specific purposes.

And greater scrutiny of earmarks would doubtless weed out a few cowgirl museums and tattoo-removal programmes.

Other lawmakers said the earmarks were a way of tossing a few bones to Main Street, before the Treasury pours hundreds of billions of dollars onto Wall Street.