(1) The legislation, which follows an EU directive, requires sheep farmers to earmark or tattoo every sheep on their land with their place of birth.(2) I championed earmark reform, also, to help Congress stop wasting money on those things that do not serve the public interest.(3) That was an earmark of the way I approached electronics.(4) For example, some members of Congress post some earmark requests online.(5) Officials insist there is no set funding target but the money is understood to be earmarked for capital expenditure on roads and building programmes.(6) The year 2004 has all the earmarks of a milestone year for the entrepreneurial space industry.(7) The plan earmarks $1.3 billion for unmanned missions to the moon over the next five years, including a lunar orbiter to be launched by 2008.(8) In short, the study has all the earmarks of a cluster-sample study that failed.(9) Roughly $700,000 was earmarked for a trust fund for Terri, and $300,000 for Michael.(10) I did grow up in a neighborhood with many earmarks of suburbia.(11) About $320 million of those funds would be earmarked for discretionary spending by the transportation authority.(12) These must pay for themselves while public funds are earmarked for yet more road - building.(13) What is important to note is that the funding for this project came from EU funding, which is earmarked for this particular project.(14) As publishers and record companies looked for the earmarks of potential long-term hits, several releases in late 1941 exploited early returns from the front.(15) He showed all the earmarks of a real hunter, a man who took nothing for granted.(16) Under Republican control, we have gone, I believe, in 1994 from about 2,000 earmarks per year to over 10,000.
