Sentence examples for earmark it from inspiring English sources

Stamp duty, says the OBR, is due to bring in £9bn: why not earmark it for housebuilding?

"Some would say if I didn't earmark it then the bureaucrat would get to decide where the money went," he said.

"We take revenues from television and sponsorships and recycle virtually all of it into tournaments and require them to earmark it for prize money increases.

But since I had my daughter, I have started thinking of the money I earn as less important than the money my husband earns, and I mentally earmark it for baby-related expenses.

Though the class of intellectuals can trace its ancestry to the clerks and pedants of the medieval and Renaissance "schools," learning is no longer an earmark — it is optional, and the lack of it avoids confusion with the horde of academics.

"If it walks like an earmark and talks like an earmark, it's an earmark," said Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, who has done battle with the Badger's owner.

Not only does transparency draw attention to quality earmarks, it also helps earmarkers escape from the cloud of suspicion that undermines what are often good faith efforts to support worthy projects.

On Friday, the leadership sent Mr. Obama a letter urging him to use his first veto on the $410 billion spending bill and the 9,000 earmarks it includes if it clears Congress in its present form.

Before launching an airborne assault there in February, General McChrystal earmarked it as a testing-ground for his strategy.

PHOENIX — By 1953, Anthony Joslin's parents had saved $3,000, and earmarked it for sending their son to college.

Sure, they have the choice of simply donating money to their alma maters and earmarking it for financial aid.