Sentence examples for budget term from inspiring English sources

"Sequestration," that arcane budget term consuming Washington in recent weeks, is about to move from political abstraction to objective reality for tens of millions of Americans.

He had been a fierce opponent of proposed constitutional amendments that would have required a balanced federal budget, term limits for members of Congress and a ban on flag burning, all championed by Republicans.

A deal effectively needs to be reached by Monday night, if the committee is going to approve it by Wednesday, the legal deadline for an agreement before the automated cuts, often referred to by the budget term "the sequester," are supposed to be imposed.

On the agenda for Convention of States: an amendment to require a balanced budget, term limits for congress, repealing the federal income tax and giving states the power to veto any federal law, supreme court decision or executive order with a three-fifths vote from the states.

Once a neutral budget term, "entitlement" has taken on new meaning in policy, media and even everyday discourse -- one that diminishes the dignity of seniors and mis-frames policy discussions about the economic consequences of the aging of America.

But in overall budget terms, it is not big enough.

"But in pure budget terms," he said, "the money was never there in the first place".

Other than this reform the budget was boring, and the sums of money involved, were, in budget terms, pitiful.

But at least in budget terms, Albania was surely the best stretch of the six-week-old Frugal Mediterranean adventure.

I'd like to ask for your public support in backing the budget terms set out this week.

In departmental budget terms that's the spare change they find down the back of the sofa.