Combined with this was his sympathy and tact, and Daylight could note easily enough all the
earmarks that distinguished him from a little man of the Holdsworthy caliber.
Why, he had all the
earmarks of a typewriter copyist, if you leave out the disposition to contribute uninvited emen- dations of your grammar and punctuation.
They bore the
earmarks of prisons, which were further accentuated by the armed guards who squatted on low benches without, or patrolled the short beach lines.
Portman Statement on Initial Phase of
Earmark Database," press
That rule defines an
earmark as spending specifically requested by a member of Congress for "an entity, or targeted to a specific State, locality or congressional district...." But simply fuzz up the authorship, recipient, or location of an added spending item, and it transforms from an
earmark to a "congressional special interest item." There are hundreds of those, most of them buried in sparsely worded tables in the JES.
New Delhi: Ministry of Railways has decided to
earmark reserved accommodation in trains for female passengers in 3 AC class of all Rajdhani/Duronto/fully Air Conditioned trains.
More than 35 nations
earmark sin tax revenues, specifically tobacco and alcohol taxes, for health.
For the purpose of this clause, the term 'congressional
earmark' means a provision or report language included primarily at the request of a member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator providing, authorizing or recommending a specific amount of discretionary budget authority, credit authority, or other spending authority for a contract, loan, loan guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other expenditure with or to an entity, or targeted to a specific State, locality or Congressional district, other than through a statutory or administrative formula-driven or competitive award process.
Party leaders agreed to
earmark $427 million to the districts of wavering Democrats, as well as $500 million to pick up the one Republican vote they needed.
The guidance implements a provision in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, which gives States the option of repurposing certain
earmarked funds if the original
earmark is more than 10 years old and if less than 10 percent of the project funds have been obligated, or if the project is closed.