Sentence examples for earmark grants from inspiring English sources

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Mr. Paterson said that unless the Legislature enacted a contingency plan for the loss of the Medicaid money, he would use those powers to veto all of the lawmakers' additional spending on education, as well as thousands of legislative earmark grants, known a member items.

NIH doesn't earmark grants for young investigators either but asks reviewers to give special attention to proposals from first-time applicants.

Some of what McCain might plausibly dismiss as wasteful earmarks — grants to urban-housing developers, say, or maybe a federally financed community center — might seem to Obama examples of empowering communities.

Indeed, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Department earmarked grants last September totaling $3.5 million for a three-year research program, the Open Source Quality Project, led by Alex Aiken of the University of California at Berkeley.

But this week the campaign of Gov. George W. Bush seized on earmarked grants that Mr. McCain opposed, in the form of $104 million for a breast cancer program at New York University and another $1 million for the program at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Healto System, to contend that he opposed breast cancer research generally.

Before decentralization almost all resources were transferred to district governments through centrally-specified earmarked grants.

Donor contributions include both earmarked and non-earmarked grants.

Initially, some formal bargaining took place between the researchers and policy-makers at the MoSJ, to acquire the earmarked grant.

Any increases will have to come with cuts elsewhere unless state lawmakers find a way to spare some of these programs with earmarks or grants in the state budget.

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) got an extra $500 million, with 80% earmarked for grants to universities and research hospitals, plus another $100 million to be devoted to support Canadian participation in international research projects.

The main instrument available to the Federal Government to achieve this goal is public spending, including earmarked federal grants.