appropriation
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Any such payment would in any case require congressional authorization, as the US Constitution bars the president from spending Treasury funds without an appropriation made by law.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Zvernec residents have already been battling this appropriation of their land in the courts for 20 years, so in many ways, the Kushner development is just the latest twist.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Plagiarism can be defined as the appropriation of someone else’s words or ideas without acknowledgment or compensation.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
The pivot by the 31-year-old artist was especially bold as she had previously been accused of cultural appropriation for recording salsa tunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
There was talk now among the directors of seeking a $10 million appropriation from Congress, but the only immediate solution was to reduce expenditures.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Federal appropriations for the Kennedy Center cover operations, maintenance and other campus expenses, while the institution’s employee payroll and lineup of artistic programming is funded separately through ticketing, fundraising and other non-federal revenues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Bonta’s office has also received regular appropriations to fund such litigation in each of the state’s last two budgets, of $14.2 million last fiscal year and $23.9 million this fiscal year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
With few exceptions, the limit applies to most appropriations of tax revenue, including when lawmakers put money away in the rainy day fund and other reserves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026
“There’s a price to be paid for people who may be thinking about different issues,” Farmer said, “but maybe you’ve got an appropriations request in and you don’t want to risk burning that bridge.”
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
He was chair of the appropriations committee in the Utah House of Representatives, where he’d been first elected in 2000.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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The Constitution of the United States
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