Sentence examples for budgets for the regular from inspiring English sources
Making matters worse, budgets for the regular Healthy Families and Healthy Start programs had just been slashed in previous legislative sessions.
Still, the nation's economy has grown faster than the level of military spending, and even the current colossal Pentagon budgets for regular operations and the war efforts consume a smaller portion of gross domestic product than in previous conflicts.
Thus, there is a "ceiling" rate, setting the maximum amount that any member can be assessed for the regular budget.
Legally binding dues assessments for the regular UN budget in 2011 were $2.4 billion, which represented a slight increase from 2010.
He left the impression that if the rest of the world would give Congress the lower dues it wants for the regular United Nations budget, there might be a slight relaxation of the hard line on reducing American payments for peacekeeping.
"This is a tremendous achievement for the United Nations," said Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, who has spent almost all of his 16 months as representative here fighting to get two scales of dues -- one for the regular United Nations budget and another for peacekeeping -- realigned by 188 other nations.
"For years, Congressional Republicans have used every crisis they could manufacture to litigate the federal budget outside the regular budget process without any regard for the impact of their actions on workers and the economy," Murray said in a statement.
Then there were the more than $900 billion in indirect war costs paid for from the regular budget and the budget of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
They set a budget for their regular programmes based on the money they are able to raise, mostly from governments.
And adding $10 billion a year to the regular budget for the next five years would amount to a further shift in priorities toward national security, and increase the pressure to cut spending on domestic programs.
