Sentence examples for budget paralysis from inspiring English sources

Signs of budget paralysis are everywhere.

"Budget paralysis" we used to call it when I worked in the civil service.

California's budget paralysis continued as legislators in several other states also facing big deficits managed to pass budgets or temporary measures to keep their governments running.

Budget paralysis is still a distant prospect, but on January 27th Standard & Poor's, a rating agency, downgraded Japan's sovereign bonds partly because Mr Kan's government lacked "a coherent strategy" to improve the fiscal situation.

The one measure to pass, which would prevent legislators and statewide constitutional officers, including the governor, from receiving pay rises in years when the state is running a deficit, was approved by more than 75percentt of those who cast ballots, demonstrating the overwhelming disgust many Californians say in polls that they feel toward elected officials in a time of deep budget paralysis.

They can break the paralysis of budget battles, year upon year, or they can concoct yet another smoke-and-mirrors solution that solves nothing.

To Peter R. Orszag, Mr. Obama's first budget director, the solution to paralysis may be... paralysis.

The divided Legislature, known for its partisan disputes and gridlock, late budgets and general legislative paralysis, is still going strong, with the majorities in both houses growing.

President Bill Clinton called the balanced budget amendment "a recipe for total paralysis".

The "supermajority" rule results in political paralysis and chronically late budgets in good times and bad times.

Finally, policy paralysis around the US federal budget may be playing the biggest role of all in America's incipient governance crisis.