Sentence examples for budgetary difficulty from inspiring English sources

The Germans, always the strongest advocates of fiscal discipline, now find themselves in budgetary difficulty because Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's government is pushing through a bunch of tax cuts in the middle of an economic slowdown.

Given their budgetary difficulties, about half the states are actually reducing their prison populations.

"Both of us need growth, and both us also have budgetary difficulties," Mr. Barroso said.

In the past we have argued against earmarking taxes in this way: it raises a host of budgetary difficulties.

And after last year's budgetary difficulties, it was a relief to learn that fewer hospitals are in financial meltdown.

"It was difficult to discuss this when the three most important players around the table each face short-term budgetary difficulties," one diplomat said.

Even before the shutdown, scientists were facing severe budgetary difficulties that restrict the kind of research that led to this year's Nobel Prize, Dr. Collins noted.

A1 Iran Pledges Aid to Hamas A senior Iranian official pledged to provide financial support to a Hamas-controlled Palestisinn Authority, which is in budgetary difficulties and facing further cuts in aid.

With some regret, he said the budgetary difficulties resulting from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks could delay his efforts to raise teacher and police pay closer to suburban levels.

The announcement by rating agency Standard & Poor's that weak growth in Spain would intensify the country's budgetary difficulties reinforced fears of a cascade of sovereign debt emergencies in southern Europe with a disastrous knock-on effect on the euro.

The court ruling and continuing budgetary difficulties have left Portugal's government — once held up as a model of the austerity approach — with a dwindling set of options if it is to balance its books.