| Having said that, I have to go on to say that, for me, this story in the Times has all the earmarks of a load of old cobblers. |
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| A spokesman for McConnell says the requests were made last year, and notes he voted for an amendment to strike all earmarks, which failed. |
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| Also, remember John McCain's famous line about earmarks from the campaign trail. |
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| I am always ready to believe the worst when warranted, but this has all the earmarks of a wild rumor. |
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| This has the earmarks of the sort of backroom politicking that has marked some of the darkest chapters in American history. |
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| The European position bore all the earmarks of what Edward Said has called orientalism. |
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| He earmarks some of them for speeches to be used in training camp and beyond. |
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| He showed all the earmarks of a real hunter, a man who took nothing for granted. |
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| In short, the study has all the earmarks of a cluster-sample study that failed. |
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| But while it may have had some of the earmarks of a religious revival, this movement was rooted firmly in the material world. |
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| It presets the bounds of inquiry, cramps the interrogative space, and derails the track switching that earmarks ethnographic work. |
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| Congress pork-barrel spends and earmarks all of this money while we have enlisted families on food stamps. |
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| The year 2004 has all the earmarks of a milestone year for the entrepreneurial space industry. |
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| Democrats and Republicans are being held in the spotlight for their earmarks. |
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| This movie has all the earmarks of a great premise that was dumbed down to appeal to an increasingly less adventuresome multiplex audience. |
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| Even I am willing to admit such an action bears all the earmarks of anti-social behavior. |
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| Senator, on this issue of earmarks that you talk about frequently, you reiterated yesterday that you have never taken an earmark. |
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| Watchdog groups say it's hard to determine if the Senate's passage of this bailout was bought with earmarks. |
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| He has been able to turn the promise of earmarks for other Democrats into votes on close issues. |
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| For its part, the Roadmap also earmarks funding for immigration, but few details have been provided in this respect. |
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| It is a plan that's been put together without earmarks or the usual pork barrel spending. |
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| I did grow up in a neighborhood with many earmarks of suburbia. |
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| 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. |
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| This has all the earmarks of a franchise that has run its course. |
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| It did nothing to note the earmarks of fraud that surrounded the story. |
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| By August the troopers of the 14th were well aware that 1961 had already been a very eventful year and had all the earmarks of becoming even more eventful. |
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| And in those speeches, she insists she's fought hard against pork barrel projects, basically telling America she'll stand up to government earmarks. |
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| The Senate also soundly defeated a bill to ban earmarks for a year. |
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| And greater scrutiny of earmarks would doubtless weed out a few cowgirl museums and tattoo-removal programmes. |
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| The concerto also has the earmarks of vintage Prokofiev: memorably soaring melodies, propulsive rhythms, and an impish sense of humour. |
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| Sector budget support earmarks money for a specific sector such as education. |
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| The MCH Group earmarks a specific sum in its budget each year which it uses to support local non-profit organisations and campaigns. |
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| First of all, teachers in some countries are trained to look for earmarks of violent or disruptive behaviour. |
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| Now the levy is set up and controlled by the Norwegian State, which earmarks it for financing the Energy Fund. |
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| Since 1995, the federal government no longer specifically earmarks moneys transferred to the provinces for civil legal aid. |
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| The State earmarks 5 per cent of gross domestic product and 21 per cent of the State budget to education. |
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| Furthermore, the Act specifically earmarks funds for literacy and French-language training. |
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| Article 9 earmarks the part of the toll based on external costs to various measures contributing to sustainable transport. |
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| As far as Community funding is concerned, the ERDF and Cohesion Fund will continue to provide support and the Commission's proposed revision of the TEN Financial Regulation earmarks ECU 5 billion for this period. |
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| While flagging big cuts to future school spending growth, the Coalition's first budget earmarks the funding over five years to continue the chaplaincy scheme originally put into place by John Howard. |
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| I nominate Starbucks. Unlike me, a large number of people seem to think that earmarks are evil, and evidence of moral turpitude on the part of the politician involved. |
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| One of the most amazing earmarks of religious living is that dynamic and sublime peace, that peace which passes all human understanding, that cosmic poise which betokens the absence of all doubt and turmoil. |
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| In addition to using Northern contractors whenever possible, the Department also earmarks a percentage of each project budget to deliver specialized training to Inuit employees. |
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| While spending on earmarks is a tiny portion of the budget, critics like Mr. Flake and Mr. Boehner said they played an insidious role in pushing up federal spending through what is known in legislative terms as logrolling. |
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| On the contrary, we see an enlargement that earmarks for permanent membership some, or even most, of the additional seats as a lost opportunity to enhance rotation in both principle and practice. |
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| While Slovenia earmarks EUR 14.5 million a year for its Hungarian minority, Hungary earmarks a mere EUR 400 000 a year for its Slovenian minority. |
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| He believes the great plus point of such an institution is that it would judge infrastructure project proposals on their economic merits, instead of relying on earmarks and formula-based grants, which is the current practice. |
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| Danger tagging and earmarks to stick on parcels and vehicles. |
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| Polyrhythmic and polymetric textures are in fact among the stylistic earmarks of such American composers as Charles Ives and his disciple Elliott Carter. |
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| But Republicans are strangely silent about what spending they would like to cut, apart from those inadequate old standbys, earmarks and government waste. |
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| Congress spends too much time doling out earmarks, argues Jeff Flake, a Republican representative from Arizona, and not enough on the rest of the budget. |
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| The contributions, they maintained, had nothing to do with the earmarks. |
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| Jim DeMint, a senator from South Carolina, wants his colleagues to adopt a voluntary ban on earmarks, a form of pork-barrel spending particularly reviled by fiscal hawks. |
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| For FIMP and WIN XP this has been a successful approach but formal documentation of selection criteria for project managers would be helpful to identify earmarks of success for future reference and in the event of turnover. |
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| Earmarks are derided as pork by taxpayer watchdogs and some politicians, but many citizens send their representatives to Washington expecting them to bring home the bacon. |
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