Sentence examples for largest appropriations from inspiring English sources

The UK and US governments have criticised, in unusually strong language, Israel's decision to approve one of the largest appropriations of Palestinian land for settlement in recent decades.

The kidnap and murder of the three teenagers, blamed by the Israeli government on Hamas, has now been used to justify mass arrests on the West Bank, as a contributory cause to the recent 50-day war in Gaza, and now one of the largest appropriations of land for settlement building in recent memory.

On August 31st Israel's government made its largest appropriation of occupied West Bank land in a generation.

The second largest appropriation, under the heading "distance learning, telemedicine, and broadband program," is $2.5 billion for "the cost of broadband loans and loan guarantees…and for grants".

John Kerry has called the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, amid a US effort to persuade Israel to reverse the go-ahead for the largest appropriation of land on the occupied West Bank since the 1980s.

Another stipulation is that bills considered not involve large appropriations.

The Right demanded large appropriations for defense, but the Folketing (lower chamber) rejected Estrup's motion on fortifications.

"Each year we're seeing larger appropriations for agriculture," he said, because "the strength of the safety net is encouraging crop production".

House Democrats are expected to attach money for the loan program to a larger appropriations measure that could come to a vote in Congress this week.

He said he had not decided yet whether to put in place other large appropriations he says were improperly drafted by the Legislature and which he considers unconstitutional.

Supported by Phil Gramm, then a Republican senator from Texas and chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, the legislation was a 262-page amendment to a far larger appropriations bill.