"mechanism" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Buried in the Budget The spending of all the nation's intelligence agencies, an estimated $28 billion a year, is disguised within the Pentagon's budget through false accounting mechanisms and bogus line items.
- "They're an accounting mechanism to show the Federal Government how grant money is spent," he said.
- In the Soviet economy, prices were an accounting mechanism only.
- Furthermore, the Court held that the gambling chips were not property but "merely an accounting mechanism to evidence debt."
- But donor countries have refused to turn over most of the $2.4 billion promised to the Palestinian Authority over the next five years, saying that Mr. Arafat has not yet established proper accounting mechanisms.
- He also told him about an accounting mechanism that was said to improperly keep the costs of failed bids off Enron's books.
- Hence, memory becomes an accounting mechanism for computing the energy costs of behavior.
- "Acquisition" VAT is payable when goods are acquired in one EU member state from another EU member state (this is done not at the border but through an accounting mechanism).
- Since it is an accounting mechanism it does not require any physical equipment changes, unless a unidirectional electric meter exists, which must be replaced or reprogrammed to allow bi-directional operation.
- You have approved the recasting of the financial regulation and the Commission's proposals on financial incentives for top grade officials, although I note that you have some concerns about the Commission's accounting mechanisms.
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