Sentence examples for that appropriations from inspiring English sources

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They insist, as do some liberal advocacy groups, that appropriations for domestic programs are not exploding.

"Our view is that appropriations are money and a purpose," said William Collins, a lawyer for the State Assembly.

Mr Abramoff bragged that appropriations committees were "earmark favour factories".Mr Coburn has been making his case against earmarks for a decade, but now he can command a national audience.

The main issue is whether the proceeds of borrowing -- in this case, $1.9 billion of the $28 billion budget for 2004-5 -- constitute revenue for the purposes of the New Jersey Constitution's requirement that appropriations not exceed revenue.

Anyway, I suspect Ms Maddow's policy proposals, should they be enacted, would not be as impotent as Mr Rojas contends.Imagine Congress did explicitly require that wars be financed with new tax revenue, that democratically unaccountable clandestine operations must either be suspended or made subject to congressional oversight, that appropriations not be approved to pay mercenaries, and so forth.

Córdova said that NSF has followed that appropriations language to the letter in allocating its 2015 funds.

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The overlapping neighborhoods create cultural mashups, a reminder that appropriation drives so much of America.

Exposure to "jazz musicians taking pop standards and doing them their own way," she said, meant that "appropriation was natural for me".

Within about a decade, that appropriation neutralized the artists' ability to make further change; the message itself (and even some of the messengers) became comfortable and popular.

It is not by chance that appropriation became the dominant artistic technique in the 1980's, at the same time that hip-hop became a global phenomenon.

Readers of the BJP were in no doubt that appropriation is just another word for theft, and erasure another empty postmodern gesture.

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