Sentence examples for budgets given from inspiring English sources

One of Gordon Brown's inventions, the chancellor introduced it as a stepping stone between the full budgets given each spring.

Lectures from Brussels on the need to cut public spending and balance budgets, given the desperately straitened times, have added insult to injury.

For another, Mr. Monti has already succeeded, along with France's new president, François Hollande, in persuading Germany to temper its insistence on austerity budgets, given the evidence that such an emphasis risks pushing the euro zone into years of stagnation.

At least a quarter of the £940m savings target for 2016-17 will come from service cuts or reductions in size of the personal budgets given to people to pay for care and support.

He was known mostly for his ample size (Toronto journalists turn themselves in pretzels trying to avoid the most obvious adjective to describe him), his confrontational encounters with the press, and his dogged refusal to spend what he considered the excessively high office budgets given to city councillors.

A ruling in favor of the commission would reject this show of political muscle by France and Germany, though it is doubtful that it would force them to rewrite their current budgets, given that the court is not likely to hand down a judgment for months, possibly years.

The bigger budgets give European producers access to higher-quality talent and production skills.

Actually, budgets give the illusion of control not the reality, and the first step is to accept that fact.

Also, the judiciary in December reinforced the governor's vast power in writing budgets, giving him more leverage over the Legislature on budget issues.

Fiscal sleight of hand has long been a staple of federal budgets, giving rise to phrases like "rosy scenario" and "magic asterisks".

"These budgets give industry the certainty needed to develop and use low carbon technology – cutting emissions, creating new businesses and jobs," said the chancellor.