Sentence examples for budget expand from inspiring English sources

Indeed, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney used the "war on terror" as an excuse to increase the military budget, expand new weapons system, funnel more federal contracts to big defense contractors like Halliburton, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin, and, in the process, cut taxes for the rich and swell the federal budget deficit.

Coppola had to create and finance the equipment that he used, and he supplemented it with some elaborate sets; the budget expanded from twelve million dollars to twenty-seven million dollars.

The budget expands the private school voucher programme, which provides state subsidies for students to attend private schools, including religious ones.

The overall defence budget expanded slightly this year, for the first time in 11 years, but the money Japan has available to spend on military hardware is nevertheless shrinking as equipment-maintenance costs rise.

Over the years, the discretionary funds given to the Council have grown along with the city's budget, expanding from perhaps $15 million about two decades ago to $360 million today, and more than doubling as a percentage of the overall budget since 1995.

Rocky has boosted the team's marketing budget, expanded television broadcasts on Comcast SportsNet and WGN, and added over 20 sponsors.

This is my dream team, however, until my budget expands it's just me.

But although the budget expands some services in the mostly uncapped mandatory spending side of the budget, there are disappointments.

During his 30 years there, the library's stock sextupled, and the budget expanded from £4,500 to £448,500, in real terms a twelvefold increase.

In June 1976, Paramount assigned Jerry Isenberg, a young and active producer, to be executive producer of the project, with the budget expanded to $8 million.

For 2013, the arts and culture budget expanded from $1.5 billion to $1.57 billion -- still less than half of what the 2014 midterms have cost.