Sentence examples for budgetary equivalent from inspiring English sources

Now, many states find themselves in the budgetary equivalent of looking for loose change under the sofa cushions.

In their search for large programs to cut, they have set their sights on the budgetary equivalent of the 800-pound gorilla: Medicaid.

Fringe benefits can be reduced only if a job is cut, so agency heads who lay off a worker are given the budgetary equivalent of extra credit.

(Funding for it officially ran out at the end of September, and it has kept going since then only thanks to the budgetary equivalent of scrounging and foraging).

What worries me is that Daniels's projection was the budgetary equivalent of the Rumsfeld Pentagon's failure to commit enough troops for the occupation.

Just a year ago, New Jersey was reveling in the budgetary equivalent of a winning Powerball ticket: a huge windfall of tax revenue allowed state officials to draft a budget with a 10percentt spending increase and a record $870 million surplus.

Within a scenario of resource scarcity, huge budgetary constraints and other public choices of equivalent priority to that of combating wildfires, new wildfire management strategies seem necessary to achieve efficient answers to the increasing complexity of the economic and technical Mediterranean forest fire framework.

Rather than budgetary pragmatism, the changes seem to be the fiscal equivalent of a firework set off during an earthquake the earthquake being Mr Darling's staggering debt projections, his Panglossian growth forecasts and a public-spending squeeze of a kind Labour once excoriated.

Land commodification in Chinese cities has generated a revenue of one to three trillion yuan each year equivalent to 40 50 percent of local municipal budgetary revenue.

The fiscal adjustment, according to economist Karl Whelan, is the equivalent of "€4,600 per person… the largest budgetary adjustments seen in the advanced economic world in recent times".

Inge Grässle, a German member of the European Parliament and a member of the body's budgetary control committee, said that the highest-paid European Union officials paid taxes equivalent to about 25 percent of their gross salary.