Sentence examples for proportion earmarked from inspiring English sources

Landis's successor as commissioner, Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler (1945 51), assured the soundness of the pension fund in 1950 by signing a six-year contract for broadcasting World Series and All-Star games; the television portion alone amounted to $1 million a year, with a large proportion earmarked for the pension fund.

Of funds allocated to prevention, a significant proportion is earmarked for faith-based programs encouraging teenaged sexual abstinence and discouraging multiple-partner sex.

The proportion so earmarked may vary between districts and could be used as an index of the potential districts have, or do not have, to vary expenditure within their total budget according to local needs.

But a smart move would be for the BBC to ringfence a decent proportion of the £30m earmarked for BBC1 dramas for ones that appeal to BBC3 viewers.

Following savings, a proportion of the billions earmarked for the massive prison-building programme could be used far more effectively to resource a range of policy measures to make the system deliver better value and significantly better outcomes.

The prime minister will announce on Sunday that it will include a "retail offer" with a proportion of the shares being earmarked for sale at a discounted price for small investors.

Though van Herpen has a small number of private couture clients — women who can spend up to sixty thousand dollars for a dress — a significant proportion of every couture collection is earmarked for a curator rather than for a client.

A proportion of these penalties should be earmarked to provide compensation to victims, says Goudie, who is pushing the UK government to include a clause on restitution in its pending bill on modern day slavery.

In the declaration, the region's governments also called upon donor countries to strive to fulfill their commitment to provide 0.7 per cent of their Gross National Product for official development assistance, and to ensure that a larger proportion of current development assistance is earmarked for social services for children.

Because, for many developing countries, a proportion of foreign exchange earnings is earmarked for debt service and thus not available to import food, the ratio can also be expressed as the share of food import expenditure in total exports of goods and services minus debt service payments.

Donor contributions include both earmarked and non-earmarked grants.