Sentence examples for budget defeats from inspiring English sources

In these three districts, contentious school board elections also contributed to the budget defeats.

This is the fifth year in a row that the percentage of budget defeats has increased.

More than one-third of the Island's school budgets were voted down last year and in 2004 last year 211 districts adopted contingency budgets after budget defeats.

"And it may come to a head on Long Island this spring if there are a large number of budget defeats.

In Port Washington and Herricks, the budget defeats were tied to bond referendums that were also rejected by voters sending the message that they would not support spending they viewed as excessive.

A budget defeat brings a search for explanations, but finding them can be elusive.

The picture after the budget defeat in Glen Cove was grimmer.

"We've never had a budget defeated," bragged Neil Zitofsky, the Great Neck Library business manager.

Superintendent Carl Bonuso said the district had not had a budget defeat since 1987.

Hispanic residents refused to blame anti-Hispanic sentiment for the budget defeat.

The threat to the prime minister in Parliament, as the EU budget defeat has shown, is more serious.