Sentence examples for securing appropriations from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Known as the "Make America Secure Appropriations Act," the House package consists of four of the 12 annual government spending bills.

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

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

The President has also instructed his subordinates to divert additional sources of Departments of Defense and Treasury funds that Congress restricted for other purposes,in an effort to secure the appropriations that Congress denied him for the border wall.

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

The Council, however, inflexibly refused to apply this new rule for 2019, and Parliament's delegation therefore had to secure fresh appropriations instead (nearly half a billion Euros extra for both programmes).

By pamphlet and personal appeal Emma secured an appropriation from the Pennsylvania legislature and a gift of land from a Philadelphia philanthropist, and in February 1892 the sisters opened the Pennsylvania Home for the Training in Speech of Deaf Children Before They Are of School Age, more simply known as the Bala Home for its nearness to that Philadelphia suburb.

She was instrumental in securing a congressional appropriation in 1898 for the establishment of public kindergartens in the District, and she played a major role in the establishment of a juvenile court system.