Homeland security officials said the grants were a result of a more sophisticated evaluation process, combined with a smaller overall allocation of money from Congress.

"Look at overall allocation," he said.

In May, Mr. Shelby introduced a provision that would have capped all mass transportation subsidies at 12.5 percent of the overall $5.4 billion allocation.

Helens' overall allocation was low because it did not bid for new places and put any proposals to tackle its serious surplus place problem.

The overall allocation of points for the course is divided on a ratio of 40:60, for coursework and examinations respectively.

The objectives setup shapes the main focus of interventions (eligible activities and costs) and the overall allocations of funds from the EU budget.

Instead, they will suffer as a result of the shortcomings of the CAP and of the way in which the overall allocation for structural operations has been changed.

Up to now, the Member States have used less than 20% of the overall allocation.

Within the overall allocations set out above we have made a number of significant decisions on funding for individual programmes next year.

The basic problem is that the overall allocation is far too low to meet American foreign policy objectives.