| Of course, Budgets are also about allocating resources in the here and now to deal with current problems. |
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| No doubt the tourism bosses factored all this into their spreadsheets when allocating the advertising budget. |
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| We deal with thousands of patients directly and by telephone, allocating appointments at their convenience or as quickly as possible. |
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| Thousands of officials found employment in allocating and policing quotas in importing and exporting countries. |
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| Many newspapers were far more vehement, frothing at the mouth at the very idea of allocating any extra funding to public services. |
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| And others see the non-banks as champions of free markets, effectively allocating savings and in no way being factors in inflationary credit. |
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| This should entail allocating large tracts of unused state land to landless and dispossessed people. |
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| The rules of fair play must be observed by the minister in allocating the entitlements. |
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| It is possible to discourage guessing by allocating one mark for a correct answer and minus one for an incorrect answer. |
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| Conflict transformation avoids allocating blame or dwelling on the past, no matter how painful, in order to try to achieve shared futures. |
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| The report adverts to a problem, which was to become a running sore, of allocating cash received by VKV to particular invoices. |
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| And most unions are working on these things, for example by allocating extra time and resources to education, organization and representation. |
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| I start from the basic supposition that economics is the study of allocating scarce resources and not simply the study of money. |
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| Some operating systems go beyond basic flat mapping of memory and provide operating system routines for allocating and deallocating memory. |
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| The responsibility rests entirely with Congress allocating the appropriations required and with the executive branch of the Government. |
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| This means the role of the market in allocating resources has been weakened. |
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| Shortly this council will go through a budget process allocating millions of dollars to various projects. |
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| By contrast, casting or drawing lots to assure fairness in allocating duties or rewards has been acceptable for millennia. |
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| Are we allocating our resources in the right direction, according to your estimates? |
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| As an economist, I believe in the market as an efficient mechanism for allocating resources. |
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| The state acts best when it takes the role of a caring parent, balancing the needs of all its children and allocating its resources accordingly. |
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| The model of the command economy has been thoroughly discredited because bureaucrats have been even worse at allocating resources than business managers. |
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| This naturally reduces the likelihood of a retailer allocating yet more space to the sale of impulse ice-cream products. |
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| It is about allocating space on the commons or in public areas. |
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| Article 15.3.7 of our land claims agreement recognizes the principle of adjacency, allocating fishing licences to waters adjacent to Nunavut. |
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| Auctioning should be the main means of allocating emissions targets, in order to avoid the disadvantages for competition of grandfathering. |
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| It is not about punishing wrongdoers but apportioning and allocating responsibility for environmental damage. |
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| In 1981 responsibility for allocating subsidies to local bus routes and ferries was transferred from the central administration to the counties. |
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| Some vehicles are disposed of prematurely because of DOA's process of allocating funds. |
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| You need a yardstick for allocating your personal time, and that's the one you'll have to stick by. |
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| Mr. Ross Goldsworthy: In terms of car allocation, during the peak season we have several criteria for allocating cars. |
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| We did not hear of any rationale for allocating funds across the recipient groups or between national and regional organizations. |
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| By and large, the state has been open-handed in allocating resources to health. |
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| For a few days, the big banks responsible for allocating the world's capital baulked at doing business with each other, fearful that their counterparts' credit would go bad. |
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| Note: When the DHCP server is considering dynamically allocating an IP address to a client, it first sends a ping to this address. |
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| In broad terms, the growing dominance of market mechanisms rather than credit rationing as a means for allocating credit has occurred already. |
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| The experts feel that this practice of allocating 55 elephants to a single operator is nothing more than an unethical cull disguised as a hunt. |
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| While this difference is largely true, ADR often serves as well as a means of allocating the cost of what went wrong in the past. |
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| But allocating time for discussions will not be enough to advance substantively in the negotiations. |
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| We continue to embed RBC modeling into our organization and our decision-making, such as allocating capital to lines of business. |
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| It covers its costs by charging SBB, BLS and SOB fees for allocating train paths on their networks. |
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| In allocating its resources, the RCMP has filled its contract policing vacancies first, leaving some federal positions unstaffed. |
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| Carleton, Bronte and Associates use the budgeted costing system in allocating direct and indirect costs to its clients. |
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| There is something to be said about the government allocating almost a quarter of its spending this year to subsidize domestic fuel prices, but that is another story. |
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| They are not allocating enough aid to education and are not yet getting it to countries and children that need support. |
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| The system of allocating points is based on the total number of riders starting in a category. |
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| It is also important to obtain participation at the regional and local levels, e.g. by allocating specific responsibilities at each level. |
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| A larger amount of global aid is required for education in all these countries, with donors allocating aid according to needs. |
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| One option would be to replace relative stability with a more flexible system, such as allocating fishing rights. |
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| Additionally, active efforts on the part of directors are acknowledged by allocating a fixed remuneration per meeting attended. |
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| Finally, participants set priorities by allocating five care bucks each to identify the proposals that were most important to them. |
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| In Phase Two of the ETS we need not only to bear down on carbon emissions, but also to ensure a more transparent way of allocating the emission allowances in the first place. |
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| Unlike in years past, more than 40 states are allocating their delegates proportionally, instead of winner take all. |
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| Congress is considering reconfiguring the formula for allocating money. |
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| From now on, he said, bosses of commerce and industry will have a real say on issues like allocating land for business and housing development, road links and transportation. |
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| Kate's parents also criticised Swindon Council for allocating their daughter temporary accommodation in a bed and breakfast used to house other, older drug addicts. |
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| The system for allocating chairs will be based on an electoral system based on the single transferable vote and if all else fails, then lots will be drawn. |
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| They suggested that, for such species, colony design may have been optimized for allocating resources to vegetative growth rather than to the production of larvae. |
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| It's a very efficient way of allocating resources and capital. |
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| An enterprise is an economic transactor with autonomy in respect of financial and investment decisionmaking, as well as authority and responsibility for allocating resources for the production of goods and services. |
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| The heat map provides a sound basis for evaluating the maturity of our management systems to deal with those risks and for allocating the resources required to strengthen our approach. |
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| Define periodic reposting for allocating the telephone costs. |
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| Because of multi-tasking, these relationships can only be estimated in many cases by allocating the full costs or the variable costs of operating units to their associated tasks. |
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| In order to assist in this, the BIPM is now allocating to each CC a senior member of staff to serve as its executive secretary and is proposing to provide additional secretariat support. |
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| By contrast, the independence of the coordinator who, in allocating slots decides upon the possibilities of access to the airport, must be beyond any doubt. |
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| It is time for China to abandon autarkic thinking and import more food. Last year the Communist Party pledged to let market forces play a decisive role in allocating resources such as water, land and electricity. |
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| Universities are allocating more time and money to marketing open days, engaging with students on social media, improving their prospectuses and developing their university websites, a Guardian survey finds. |
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| Rather than trying to save face by allocating these jobs at the last minute, will the government agree to transfer this program to Quebec, as requested by the Quebec Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs? |
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| In rail transport, for example, charges will include mechanisms for allocating time slots and will be graduated according to scarcity of infrastructure capacity and adverse environmental effects. |
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| Lessons on audits for allocating capacities given at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have enabled RFF and SNCF to propose a common solution for managing operations to the Government. |
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| This expenditure is determined by Treasury Board Secretariat by allocating a percentage of the government's expense for employee benefit programs to each department. |
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| Subsidies, in particular, generate benefits for households and businesses, but come at a heavy cost to the treasury both directly and in terms of the opportunity cost of not allocating the funds to alternative areas. |
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| Just under half of respondents said they weren't allocating any money towards advertising in the national press, mobile optimisation of their university website, or towards developing their directories. |
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| It is the considered opinion of the CST Bureau that the importance of allocating resources for its meeting during the intersessional period should not be overlooked. |
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| The MCH Group has a policy of allocating profits in such a way as to ensure the maintenance of its assets and the formation of equity capital, while also safeguarding the interests of its shareholders. |
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| By allocating the processes of crystallisation and drying to two machines, both the quality of the end product is improved and the capacity of the plant increased. |
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| Abstracting from distributional problems for the moment, there is little reason for treating this club good like a public good and for producing or allocating transport services according to public rules. |
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| Their creation is currently being threatened by the rigours of case-law, which tends towards having two calls for competition when allocating work, something that is likely to seal the fate of semi-public companies. |
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| The rules on allocating capacity have been pared down as far as possible, as the Council considered the approach of the Commission proposal to be too detailed and more suited to a regulation than a directive. |
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| Therefore, it is not clear from the current literature as to what is the best way of allocating such precious resources, especially between incumbents and entrant airlines. |
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| The Senate plan funnels more money to some programmes such as child care for low-income families, scientific research, food inspection and cyber-security, and gives bureaucrats a bit more flexibility in allocating money. |
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| Flowering on the tree trunk and main branches, called cauliflory, is a very effective way of allocating shoot growth and floral development to different locations. |
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| Relieving the parties of their responsibility for allocating funds would increase the chances of one of the main partners in the executive – the DUP and Sinn Féin – walking away and collapsing the institutions. |
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| Where the use of this quantitative criterion would entail allocating an amount greater than that applied for, the quantity or value allocated shall be limited to that specified in the application. |
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| Some military regimes attempt to manage that competition by, for example, allocating the spoils of office equitably between the different service branches. |
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| He revealed that they are discussing allocating a sector for the Arab yout. |
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| Harmonisation of various control authorities' activities at borders by establishing joint controls, allocating special lanes for commercial goods and passenger traffic and above all by simplifying procedures. |
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| This configuration was reached after finding that it was impossible to cope with the multiple aspects of B and B by simply allocating them to various officers on the base who would perform them as secondary duties. |
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| The regional municipality of Waterloo recently completed a housing strategy that provides direction in allocating federal, provincial and local resources to address homelessness locally. |
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| It refers to the practice of identifying the work that needs to be accomplished in order to achieve an organization's mission and then allocating human resources to carry out that work. |
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| Statistical data on number of employees and output, coming from business registers, represent distributive key for allocating data of multiregional units to corresponding regions. |
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| He left a testament allocating his assets in 811 that was not updated prior to his death. |
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| With the diversion of these resources the countries of the North would meet the commitment of allocating at least 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product to official development assistance. |
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| He began with five piles, but after allocating the 50 cards he divided the pile for the richest into two, and described the separate characteristics of the two. |
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| It uses in good faith all subsidies and aid received to secure legitimate Group Company interests, without allocating the funds to ends other than those intended or without reneging on any obligations in connection therewith. |
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| They added that it has been used to change policy to deal more rationally with the inventory of cases and to strengthen case management and the process of allocating cases to different remedies. |
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| Speakers reemphasized the importance of carbon markets in allocating and redirecting capital to cleaner investment and again noted that a sufficiently high and predictable price for carbon was critical. |
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| In other cases it may make sense for risks to be shared, for example by allocating a risk to the private sector but with the public sector offering some kind of guarantee if that risk materialises. |
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| This is a method of calculating the amortised cost of a financial asset or a financial liability and of allocating the interest income or interest expense over the relevant period. |
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| We're supporting patients with hemophilia by harvesting cryoprecipitate for them and allocating it for free. |
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| By 1094, he was allocating lands and castles to his followers as if he were the Duke of Normandy. |
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| The Commission also proposed a number of changes to procedure, including allocating specific parliamentary time to proposals for England. |
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| Economic theory may also specify conditions such that supply and demand through the market is an efficient mechanism for allocating resources. |
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| The market might be efficient in allocating resources but not in distributing income, he wrote, making it necessary for society to intervene. |
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| Rather than allocating according to need or ability, it became seen as a question of passing or failing. |
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| However, allocating undue weight to subjective indicators and having highly fluctuating results are its major criticisms. |
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| Michel Platini, the UEFA president, had proposed taking one place from the top three leagues and allocating it to that nation's cup winners. |
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| The party with the highest quotient is awarded the seat, which is then added to its constituency seats in allocating the second seat. |
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| Parliament passed an updated Cruisers and Convoys Act in 1708 allocating regular warships to the defence of trade. |
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| The first captain arriving in a particular bay was in charge of allocating suitable shoreline sites for curing fish. |
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| Apportionment is the process of allocating a number of representatives to different regions, such as states or provinces. |
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| Such associations have sources of income provided for by law, and the State collects this income for their benefit by allocating to them a certain proportion of income tax. |
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| A number of delegations pointed to the possibility of allocating permanent seats to regions and leaving it up to the regions to arrange for the incumbency of those seats. |
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| The issue of allocating the amount of salmon that First Nations, commercial, and recreational fishers can take has been the subject of debate for a number of years. |
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| Our approach advocates allocating water equitably among social, ecological, hydrological and economic demands by engaging stakeholders in decision making. |
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| Tribes were organized as cooperative structures, allocating jobs and resources among each other, only trading with the external communities. |
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| The summary report allows our administrative group to pay the consolidated costs and simplifies the task of allocating overheads promptly and reliably. |
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| Therefore, where appropriate, when bunching orders, and allocating block purchases and block sales, it is the Manager's policy to treat all clients fairly and to achieve an equitable distribution of bunched orders. |
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| According to conventional interpretation, the real interest rate is the only intertemporal price that is relevant for allocating consumption over time. |
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| Private-equity and hedge-fund managers improve economic welfare by allocating capital more efficiently. In this section Measuring the measurers Who's the patsy? |
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| By this means the Department was able to establish a planning process that took into account a range of competing considerations when allocating scarce evaluation resources among programs. |
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| The Chinese government could take action to help assuage tensions by allocating the post of party secretary to a member of an ethnic minority from the Autonomous Region. |
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| The financial issue under study could be resolved by allocating subscriber fees to those general interest television networks, but the regulatory issue may also be very important. |
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| There was general satisfaction when Mayor Pavel Bem announced this week that they were scrapping the new system of allocating grants and returning to the old one. |
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| By allocating some extra money to debt repayment each month, you'll not only get out of debt more quickly, but you could save a lot of money in interest payments as well. |
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| Overall, we are allocating new responsibilities to the political decision-making body, and we must try to make these responsibilities promote integration rather than dissociation. |
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| In the short term, the government has already taken key decisions in the social arena, such as allocating family subsidy plans that directly benefit three million people. |
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| It would seem sensible, when allocating resources in the future under each of the cohesion objectives, to give preference to those regions with the highest unemployment rates. |
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| The current methodology used by OPM for allocating responsibility for CSRS benefits between USPS and the federal government is consistent with applicable law. |
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| Then the participants declared the Association of Journalists Supporting Issues of Aids Cohabiters for allocating social support for supporting these people. |
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| Day-to-day activities within his new role at MST include entering and allocating orders and looking at prices and availability of parts for customers. |
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| The fixture-list looks to have concocted a momumental double-header by allocating the two Bears v Notts games as the antepenultimate and last fixtures of the season. |
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| Doucet also wants the government to authorize the collection of statistics on an ethnic basis that can be used for allocating social housing to fight against ghettoization. |
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| The process of allocating resources is conducted by determining a military budget, which is administered by a military finance organisation within the military. |
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