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Meanings of pork barrel in anglès

A legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.

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Examples for "pork"
Examples for "pork"
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China last year imposed retaliatory tariffs on American farm goods including pork.
Reuters
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Seven countries, including China, already had bans in place against U.S. pork.
Reuters
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Her great, great grandfather was also a German pork butcher in Sunderland.
Radio NZ
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The company, which processes pork and bacon products, currently employs 26 people.
The Irish Times
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Local pork products were considered to be the source of the infection.
Pubmed
Usage of pork barrel in anglès
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Some of this support for Zhou involved tapping the pork barrel.
Reuters
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Either way, that election eve pork barrel quickly became a barrel of lies.
News.com.au
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It's about politics and politicians - too often American politicians and pork barrel politics.
The Irish Times
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Luckily, I killed mine be forehand and it is now in the pork barrel.
The French Revolution - Volume 3
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This pork barrel politics will not enthuse many English voters.
The Guardian
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The second day it reminds you of brine out of an old musty pork barrel.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870
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But this is about more than pork barrel politics.
The Guardian
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Such redistribution often comes in the form of pork barrel projects and benefits to the middle-class.
Financial Crime and Corruption
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Does it imply that people prefer tax-and-spend governments and pork barrel politics to the Thatcherite alternative?
Financial Crime and Corruption
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There's not much," she turned to him, "but the end of the pork barrel."
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
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His pork barrel and flour sack had been replenished for other travelers; his own wants were few.
In a Hollow of the Hills
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I don't see any real strategic value up here, so it could have been a pork barrel project.'
61 hours
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This raises a lot of hackles among those who feel that were kept out of the pork barrel.
After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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Do you mean the pork barrel?
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
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Kane was rated by several congressional watchdog groups as one of Congress's most effective purveyors of pork barrel legislation.
The charlemagne pursuit
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Amid accusations of pork barrel politics, John Key denies that his party's transport pledge to Northland is a bridge too far.
Radio NZ