Sentence examples for budget ceiling from inspiring English sources
New rebates or a higher budget ceiling need not just unanimous approval from governments but also ratification by parliaments.The big question is how hard Germany will fight.
Within the EU budget ceiling we must increase financial support for job-creation programmes while gearing all EU policies and funds towards the fight against youth unemployment.
This includes €60 billion to be financed by EU bonds that can be sold fairly quickly as much as can be raised over three years without breaching the union's budget ceiling.
Mindful of this, the commission proposed in Agenda 2000 to stick to the current budget ceiling of 1.27% of the EU's GDP, even after the first batch of applicants joins.
"The E.U. 27 have set a credit card limit, and that is the right agreement," said the spokesman, referring to the budget ceiling for 2014-20 agreed to at the last summit meeting.
They were put in place after 2011's row over raising the budget ceiling, in an attempt to force lawmakers to find a less onerous ways to reduce deficits and stabilize the national debt.
The budget ceilings that were worked out behind closed doors and announced on Wednesday are unreachably low.
In recent years, however, Congress has routinely ignored or circumvented its own budget ceilings, and that is likely to happen again this year, because they are so unrealistically low.
Under the Republican proposal, the roughly $28 billion that would remain in the budget after debt reduction would be used for tax cuts or for federal spending above the budget ceilings adopted by Congress last April.
On Capitol Hill, the heads of appropriations committees can already be heard complaining that Congress might have to impose budget ceilings in the spring to help pay for the tax cut.
The sites we've proposed can be built within reasonable budget ceilings, would handle more waste than the proposed Hudson River Park sites, can be completed sooner and have the additional and considerable advantage that they are legal.
