Although desired results had been used to some degree to justify requests for financial resources, success or failure in achieving those results had no discernible effect on subsequent resource-allocation of and decision-making.
虽然预期成果在某种程度上被用于证明对财政资源的正当要求，但是能否获得这些成果对后来的资源分配和决策并没有任何明显的影响。