misappropriation

Examples of appropriation

appropriation
Most notably, it was during this administration that the principal appropriations were made to purchase stock in four canal companies (nearly $2 million worth).
Although each program is subject to appropriations review each year, the required effort and attendant uncertainty leads legislators toward abbreviated calculations.
The critical institutional dynamic concerned the honesty of appropriations estimates.
State appropriations for the previous state welfare homes failed to keep up with the rise of living and maintenance costs.
Although the rationale for federal action has been accepted, testimony must be given and the appropriations voted for each fiscal year.
Over nearly a century the character of the acta changes a little, as appropriations decline and significations of excommunication rise.
He, however, based his estimate on congressional appropriations, not on executive reports.
Much about him has already been published : fourteen surviving enrolments and his register recording vicarage endowments and appropriations.
During the second stage, the distribution over appropriations within each expenditure area is again open to discussion.
Instead of 500 appropriations, parliament now votes on 27 expenditure areas comprising on the average about 20 appropriations each.
If it is easy to have appropriations enlarged during the year, a tight process in the first two phases may be of limited value.
What is less apparent are how respective claims and appropriations were read, how and which texts persuaded.
The central sections describe the legislature's work in lawmaking, appropriations and executive oversight.
The forum for repeated play was the ordinary annual appropriations process.
While sensitive to the budget surplus, appropriations for internal improvements rarely strained the nation's fiscal capacity.
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