Sentence examples for proposed earmarking from inspiring English sources

In a bid to win support from California officials, Mr. Donovan proposed earmarking $8 billion in aid for beleaguered California homeowners, but that left other state attorneys general incensed, according to an official familiar with the negotiations.

It would also have required lawmakers proposing earmarks to be identified and their requests to originate in committee.

Legislators agreed to increase the NSF budget to $3.67 billion and drop proposed Senate earmarks for several research centers.

A big chunk of the proposed increase was earmarked for a $2000 hike in the $32,000 annual stipend given to NSF's graduate research fellowships.

The vice president received a thunderous ovation from the crowd when he proposed that the government earmark $1.6 billion to improve the media image of waterboarding and waterboarders.

A portion of the money raised by Brown's proposed amnesty would be earmarked for two insolvent funds that provide training for local law enforcement.

The Society's two-year Commission on Taxation and Citizenship criticised Labour's reluctance to discuss taxation and proposed, among other reforms, an earmarked tax for the NHS.

A20 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 Setsmer Sets Deadline For Airport Rail Link Plan Senator Charles E. Schumer, saying that the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan was stymied by a "culture of inertia," said he would recommend diverting federal money that had been earmarked for a proposed downtown rail link to Kennedy Airport toward other projects if plans for that link were not final by the middle of next year.

Some 23,800 of the homes earmarked in the proposed LDP have already been built or have planning permission.

Proposed R&D is down 4% at the U.S. Geological Survey, 8.8% at the Department of Agriculture, and 9% at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with most of the proposed drops in projects specially earmarked by Congress.

However, only $2.4 million of the proposed $6.2 million allocation has been earmarked for schools in that group.