Sentence examples for off earmarking from inspiring English sources

Although the current Congress has sworn off earmarking, the firm's Web site boasts of having won nearly a half-billion dollars in earmarked federal funding for clients in a recent 3-year period.

Osborne may steal Labour's proposed curtailing of pension-tax relief for the well-off, earmarked to cut tuition fees: Ed Balls will need a quick alternative to plug that £6bn hole.

Even in Alaska, long dependent on federal largess, officials are trying to wean the state off earmarks.

Several Democratic senators are now urging their colleagues to swear off earmarks as well, for fear of seeming out of step with the spirit of the times.

Both parties earlier pledged to swear off earmarks for 2011 and 2012.

The mayor, said David K. Rebovich, a political science professor at Rider University, is playing the victim card, demanding that the state take its hands off money earmarked for what it considers to be good causes – even if there are no rules in place to ensure that the money is not doled out to political friends.

Mr. Clinton is trying to take a chunk of the surplus off the table by earmarking it for what administration officials said were realistic spending increases over the next 10 years for general government operations including things as diverse as Head Start and new fighter planes.

Hatch said he didn't believe in "earmarking things off the top of my head," and that he had demands for such revenue "coming out my gazoo".

But the results have been inconsistent, with some House Republicans pledging earlier this year to swear off all earmarks temporarily, House Democrats pledging to ban earmarks only to commercial businesses, and the Senate taking no action at all.

NEW DELHI – A longtime political heavyweight from the eastern Indian state of Bihar was found guilty on Monday of participating in a corruption scheme known as "Fodder Scam," in which mid-ranking officials created false receipts and siphoned off public funds earmarked for animal husbandry for more than a decade.

Clark ventures that this offbeat style has permeated the mainstream: "Now everyone has ripped off their style," he says, earmarking Ralph Lauren and Maison Martin Margiela's distressed denim and taped-up jeans.