Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: appropriations
IPA transcription: [əpɹ,oʊpɹi'eɪʃənz]
Pronunciations of appropriations
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Usage examples
  • It developed enough pressure to get whatever appropriations it wanted, even over Presidential veto.
  • As the Southern representatives were mainly those who denied the constitutional power to make such expenditures, it naturally resulted that the mass of those appropriations were made for Northern works.
  • If the common Treasury of the States had, as under the Confederation, been supplied by direct taxation, who can doubt that a rigid economy would have been the rule of the Government; that representatives would have returned to their tax-paying constituents to justify appropriations for which they had voted by showing that they were required for the general welfare, and were authorized by the Constitution under which they were acting?
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Interstate 35, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording ToeJam & Earl, License CC BY-SA 4.0