Sentence examples for if the earmarking from inspiring English sources

Some voters have decided that Mr. Critz, with his knowledge of the district and the Byzantine art of securing federal money, would be a better champion, even if the earmarking process that has benefited them so much is now roundly vilified.

If the earmark disappears, the money for it goes back into the spending pot to be distributed by the federal or state bureaucracy instead of by lawmakers.

They are also apt, if the earmarked tax is intended to meet only part of a service's costs, to reduce general expenditure on that service leaving it no better off.

If the earmark is for a congressperson's own district, they would have to ask for quarterly reports from the earmark recipient and then be required to post those online.

"If that is the case, it means that the Obama administration is doing the earmarking for Congress," Mr. Ellis said.

In the economics of the book business, publishers often make enough money from blockbuster books to make a profit, even if the percentage earmarked for royalties never covers the advance.

Each location has the earmarks, if not the landmarks, of real places.

"If he didn't want the earmark included, he could have kept it out," Mr. Hoskins said in the statement.

The Tolkien suit may prove to be especially troublesome for New Line, if only because it has the earmarks of a public relations nightmare.

If you get rid of all the earmarks – every one – you'll barely make a dent in the budget deficit.

This did not have the earmarks of a successful recipe, if you know what I mean.