Example sentences for: earmarked

How can you use “earmarked” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In this case, national saving would drop slightly, but the couple would have saved more and expressly earmarked more of their assets for retirement.

  • In his WP column, Michael Kelly doles out some important context to the recent news that an international aid effort has produced $3 billion in pledges of aid for the Palestinian Authority: the London Sunday Times recently reported that the PA once diverted $20 million earmarked for low-cost housing to luxury flats for Yasser Arafat's elite instead, and moreover, that the PA's own auditors found last year that nearly 40 percent of the annual budget of $323 million was wasted, looted or misused.

  • Once the funds are earmarked in retirement accounts, the prospect of taxes and penalties for early withdrawals might induce some households to save more outside of retirement accounts to achieve nonretirement goals.

  • Of the $12 million, 22 percent is earmarked for the LSNY budget and 78 percent is allocated among the seven local corporations, according to LSNY spokeswoman, Edwina Martin.

  • Both the NYT and WP front Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo's announcement yesterday that his agency will take direct control of the $60 million earmarked for services for the homeless in New York City, because the Giuliani administration cannot be trusted to distribute them fairly.


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