Sentence examples for budgetary ceiling from inspiring English sources

The current 15 members will have to pay a price for enlargement, though the commission thinks it can finance at least the first wave without exceeding the Union's existing budgetary ceiling of 1.27% of GDP.

Egged on by Washington, Tokyo developed a modern and sophisticated defense structure, testing a de facto budgetary ceiling of 1% of the gross national product, a rising cap because of steady economic growth.

There were no budgetary ceilings, and cost estimates spiralled from an original £70m to £150m.

The human resource crisis has been compounded by the fact that the Ministry of Health (due to budgetary ceilings) has had fixed staff establishments for all districts and health facilities.

With the pundits all now apparently ready and willing to chase the next shiny, shiny object in the budgetary battles (debt ceiling! platinum coins!) or perhaps to obsess over Chuck Hagel's nomination to Secretary of Defense, the story of Republican governors across the land ushering in a new era of federal control over health insurance was barely noted.

First, they've made progress towards the "fiscal compact" demanded by European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, by promising to enshrine budgetary rules – including strict ceilings on deficits – in their constitutions, and enforce automatic punishments on eurozone members that fail to comply.

This bill funds the government for two years and extends the debt ceiling, two important budgetary moves Speaker Boehner promised to leave his successor with a clean slate.

Privately, economic officials have worried that the numerous near-brushes with a debt ceiling or other budgetary crisis in the last few years have inured the markets, with investors expecting Washington to wait until the last minute before acting.

(While spending is controlled by Congress in the budgetary process, raising the debt ceiling allows the government to borrow the money in financial markets needed to roll over government obligations).

But in making the debt ceiling vote conditional on budgetary retrenchment, congressional Republicans have placed our fiscal future in jeopardy.

Rather than placing the country on a sound fiscal footing, the GOP's ongoing refusal to raise the debt ceiling has worsened our budgetary situation, and without resolution to the impasse congressional Republicans will plunge the country even further into the red.