What is "appropriations"

Usage examples of "appropriations".

Professor, the Library is my life and I want it to continue, but it won’t continue unless we can find ways of making our dwindling appropriations do.

The Library must have appropriations or it will close its doors to the public and evict me.

The Insular Auditor's office must not and shall not be weakened, either by withholding appropriations for its proper staff, or by attacks upon the civil service.

He gave a genial but firm wave to the vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, then began the trudge to the clubhouse.

Palmer Stoat tinkled the ice cubes in his glass and awaited a reply from the vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

Willie Vasquez-Washington was vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

Palmer Stoat had waited until they reached the back nine before bracing the cagey vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

Who now whispered through a tingling blue haze to the vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee: "He wants to talk to you, Willie.

The vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee rubbed his jaw thoughtfully.

It wasn’t all that unusual for a new fiscal year to begin without Congress passing a couple of appropriations bills, but now we had the whole government on a CR, with no end in sight.

The night before, I signed the Department of Transportation appropriations bill, only the fourth of the needed thirteen, and canceled my scheduled trip to the Asia Pacific leaders’ meeting in Osaka, Japan.

I signed two more appropriations bills, for the legislative branch and for the Treasury Department, the Postal Service, and general government operations.

The next day I signed the Lobbying Disclosure Act, after the House Republicans reversed their opposition, and vetoed a third appropriations bill, for the Departments of Commerce, State, and Justice.

And only 6 of the 13 appropriations bills were law, three full months after the beginning of the fiscal year.

They had truly thought they had a chance of stopping Emory, and all they could do now was force a point of order, persuade the Council that no vote ought to be taken on the Hope project, since it involved ship appropriations and a major budget priority decision, until deFranco could get in from Esperance and assume her seat.