Sentence examples for earmarked for better from inspiring English sources

None of us would doubt the need to restrain public spending, but to see money that was earmarked for better facilities for our children, many of whom come from the sort of disadvantaged families the new coalition professes to care about, being diverted into projects that may not even be needed, is galling.

Many experts dispute that assessment and maintain that the money earmarked for the allowance would be better spent improving the number and quality of child-care slots.

Citing tax law changes, 1960's-era government antipoverty programs and changes in the society's operations, the trust's board decided the money earmarked for the society could be better spent on other causes, according to court papers.

To demonstrate another possible solution, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, an independent grant-making body, published a manifesto earlier this month proposing how the £2.3bn earmarked for prison building could be better spent on alternative measures that would reduce the prison population.

Some among the 160,000 people who were forced to evacuate after the tsunami triggered a triple meltdown in Fukushima plant said the billions of dollars earmarked for Tokyo 2020 would be better spent on fixing the leaks and decontaminating their irradiated home towns.

With a subway line already traveling along the route of the proposed Metrobus, the millions of dollars earmarked for the new bus lanes would be better spent on transferring more passengers underground.

The $1.5 billion earmarked for the dubious and untested marriage initiative would be better spent on intervention programs that keep troubled young people -- especially boys -- in school.

Sure, throwing in a free AR-15 costs a little extra for the roofers, but McGuire figures that the free gun is a better use of the money they've earmarked for advertising.

Some Kyrgyz critics of the government questioned the huge funds earmarked for the games and wondered whether the impoverished country might have found better use for the cash.

At another five-year-old organic farm, Rosario Castillo says he can cultivate only 19 acres of the 100 he has earmarked for organic production, although he dug a well seven months ago to gain better access to the aquifer.

It is far better to require all banks to hold a minimum amount of capital that has been specifically earmarked for bail-in.