Sentence examples for base spending from inspiring English sources

President Obama's fiscal 2011 military budget calls for a 3.4 percent rise in base spending.

And people tend to base spending on their long-term prospects.

Compared with the Defense Department's budget — some $550 billion in base spending in 2011 — pension allocations to contractors may not seem like much.

Republicans like the base spending levels in the current funding bill – sequester funding – and would seem to want to lock in those levels for longer, not shorter.

Democrats have been insisting all week that even a "clean" stopgap spending bill is not great for Democrats because it extrapolates from base spending levels that take into account the "meat-cleaver" sequester cuts.

Senate leader Harry Reid has already accused Boehner of not making good on a deal to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government to the tune of $986bn base spending (or $988bn; as Nancy Pelosi says, "their figure varies").

Karl Rove, the White House political guru whose job is to minister to the conservative base, spent yesterday in Hollywood wooing mostly Democrats -- movie executives, precisely.

The American base spends over $200m on jet fuel a year (mostly paid to a subsidiary of Gazprom, Russia's energy giant).

For that, the American base spends over $200m on jet fuel a year (mostly paid to a subsidiary of Gazprom, Russia's gas giant).

When the bulk of your user base spends all of its time rejecting your snazzy new interface then the little Store pane inside it stands zero chance of being clicked.

Bevan says: "When you're doing a big movie that's studio based, spending a lot of money on building sets, the first thing you do is a budget for shooting here, as tight as possible.