Sentence examples for of the earmarking from inspiring English sources

"It appears Congress was able to get the administration to do some of the earmarking dirty work for them," Mr. Ellis said.

McCain has championed reforms of the earmarking process to help root out wasteful government spending and sided with reformers in his party on other key questions: the symbolic Bridge to Nowhere, offsetting Katrina relief spending with budget cuts elsewhere, and preventing entitlements from continuing to grow on auto pilot while young taxpayers get a raw deal.

Furthermore, the nature of the earmarked funding and the institutionalisation of academic and clinical ethics made it difficult for the members of the collaboration to shape the research in an emergent fashion.

By 2007, most of the earmarked money was spent on preliminary engineering and planning.

Liabilities of the above Staff Related Schemes represent the actuarial liability rather than the book value of the earmarked investments.

In addition to their time, ASHAs also spent money on mothers' food and medicines limiting their actual incentive to US$2 44 instead of the earmarked US$7.500.

Second, from the view of vertical relationships of government organizations, the earmarked project system causes interdependency in the multilevel hierarchies.

First, from the view of horizontal relationships, the earmarked project system increases competition among central ministries.

The original plan had less than half of the area earmarked for the public.

Half of the money earmarked for the agency would go toward traditional intelligence work.

The text of the earmark gave the government the right to reclaim the ships, he added.