Sentence examples for items approved from inspiring English sources

Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska and chairman of the Appropriations Committee, said it was hardly the first time that items approved by the House and Senate had been stripped from final bills to win approval.

Items approved by the House and the Senate were stripped from the final bill, under pressure from the White House.

In Massachusetts, Gov. Mitt Romney signed a $22 billion budget and then vetoed $201 million in spending items approved by the Legislature.

Another option is to get a so-called National Stock Number, which gets a product in the Defense Department's database of items approved for military use.

A Shanghai-based lawyer, Yan Yiming, has threatened to sue the National Development and Reform Commission, China's de facto central planning agency, unless it publishes an inventory of items approved for financing.

The action items approved at the meeting do appear to constitute a pioneering effort to bring substantive change to the culture and practice of academic science.

Among the other agenda items: approving $56,675.59 for flood control in a city neighborhood; the presentation of certificates to graduates of the citizen fire academy; and a public hearing on proposed budget guidelines, complete with a finger-wagging lecture from the city's regular budget-watcher.

This causes delays in processing essential functions in emergencies such as purchasing essential items, approving contracts and releasing funds to partners.

For volume purchasers, the difference between the iPad mini and the iPad in price could be the difference between getting a budget item approved or denied.

More than 20,000 new items are approved monthly, adding to a catalog of over 400,000 items, apparently.

It allows inmates to earn the right to buy books and other items from approved catalogues based on good behaviour.