Sentence examples for the appropriations war from inspiring English sources

The president was also girding for the appropriations war that will heat up when Congress returns from its August recess and Mr. Bush heads back to Washington after four weeks at his ranch near Crawford, Tex.

In a statement tonight, Mr. Bush praised House lawmakers "for their strong, bipartisan show of unity in our war against terrorism" in approving the appropriations bill.

This uneasy relationship also is haunted by another legacy of the war: the appropriation by some Poles of Jews' possessions.

In the meantime, one can't help but wonder if pro-war ejaculations in the press don't stem in some cases from fears of inadequacy in bed, which are resolved via the appropriation of the US war machine as honorary genitalia.

But Mr. Kerry's pronouncement that he was proud of the vote against the $87 billion appropriation gave the war room something to attack.

The Pentagon has received an additional $326 billion to $652 billion beyond what can be attributed to the war appropriations, the study found.

The appropriations bill does that.

The appropriations process.

The appropriations committees do.

Faulkner's work was dominated by a sense of guilt going back to the American Civil War and the appropriation of Indian lands.

This is the question that House Appropriations chair David Obey put on the table when he said he would sit on the war appropriation until the White House acted on House Democratic demands to unlock federal money to aid the states in averting a wave of layoffs of teachers and other public employees.