Sentence examples for secure appropriations from inspiring English sources

In the preliminary stages of preparing for war, a Chief's most valuable asset is a knack of getting along with legislators in order to secure appropriations.

Jennings helped secure appropriation of funds to survey the Wabash River and make it more accessible to year-round steamboat travel.

His office also had responsibility for securing appropriations from Congress.

Woolsey would eventually quit when he couldn't solicit Clinton's help in small-bore tasks like securing appropriations from the Hill for training agents in Arabic.

It's easier for giant military contractors to secure huge appropriations for unnecessary weapons, and to keep the war machine going.

His propensity for securing gratuitous appropriations that often benefited his home district was unseemly.

This year, according to State Senator Owen H. Johnson, a Republican from Babylon, he and Assemblyman Thomas P. DiNapoli, a Democrat from Thomaston, are attempting "to secure a $1 million appropriation in the 2002-2003 state budget for the program".

With the intensification of the U.S. military and economic push in Colombia, we sadly can anticipate more such violence against peaceful actors in Colombia in order to make Colombian land secure for massive appropriation and exploitation.

Petraeus's Iraq progress report should give the administration the political space it needs to secure key 2008 fiscal year military appropriations and maintain tenuous congressional backing for its Iraq strategy.

Representative Rubén Hinojosa, Democrat of Texas, who paid two grandnieces and a son-in-law with his re-election campaign funds, also contributed money from his campaign account to his daughter's election bid for county clerk in Texas, and he helped secure a federal budget appropriation for a hospital where his wife serves on the board, according to the report.

Acting quickly before all ALP parliamentarians became aware of the change of government, Fraser and his allies were able to secure passage of the appropriation bills, and Kerr dissolved Parliament for a double dissolution election.