Designation with an agricultural etymology

Usage examples of earmark.

While Zinni ran CENTCOM, Franks headed the Third Army, the command that was earmarked for duty in the event of a major conflict in the Middle East.

Here, Hambali played the critical role of coordinator, as he distributed al Qaeda funds earmarked for the joint operations.

This is the kinder, gentler way of stating that the US banks will be paid by siphoning off tax receipts earmarked for education and other provincial services.

He might well consider that twenty-five thousand pounds was too high a ransom for a tirewoman, especially when it had been earmarked for Elizabeth.

Although nothing was resolved that week, the managers soon started allocating limited funds earmarked for radio and television advertising, often allowing area managers the discretion to spend it.

But it did seem that the Harper-Erickson process, with its concomitant of a round-the-globe rocket and a practical economical rocket fuel, had at last made it a very present thing, so close indeed that I did not object when the early allotments of fuel from the satellite were earmarked for industrial power.

Temple of Lims-Kragma disavowed themselves from any contact with these Nighthawks years ago, and the Temple of Guis-Wa have their own particular brand of murders, and these murders have none of the earmarks of a ritual Blood Hunt.

Of the six portable cellular phones the group had used, one was earmarked to receive special calls, the number known only to those with authority to make them.

I guaranteed that—but it has incorporated into it a most subtle truth analyzer quite capable of earmarking any fictions you include.

All of which amounted to a steel wall of armament around Eastern Poland, Byelorussia, the Ukraine and the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvianow earmarked as a new circle in hell.

An interim payment of £ 10,000 on each to the bank by the end of November, which would take up the £20,000 they'd already metaphorically earmarked from the conveyancing balance for his 'pension arrears'.

If he earmarked the cash for her “little chalet,” she would live in a hotel nearby wherever she decided to build it—and he could sell this monstrosity they were sitting in.

The last I heard the Atomic Energy Commission had the prospective supply earmarked twenty years ahead.

All vehicles not earmarked for fighting are to be destroyed, fuel to be transferred into fighting vehicles.

Two of the Hrruban visitors from Team Two had earmarked a Mommy Snake and were riding it down, without regard for the organization of the Hunt or their own safety.