Sentence examples for closer to balancing from inspiring English sources
That would get the city no closer to balancing its budget.
Mr. Walker, a Republican whose efforts to diminish collective bargaining rights have placed him firmly in the national spotlight during his less than three months in office, applauded the Senate's move on Wednesday night, and said it brought the state a step closer to balancing its budget.
"I can tell the House that we are no closer to balancing the books than when we first promised to do it.
In farming, supply and demand have come closer to balance, with export controls being lifted and better harvests expected.All this uncertainty has made stockmarkets volatile.
These unpalatable steps will do nothing to make Greece's debts more payable, bring its budgets closer to balance or help make the structural reforms Greece needs to revive its economy.
The voracious developers in emerging market nations, like those in early New York, were much closer to "balance" than are the rent-seeking Manhattanites who use political connections to fight new skyscrapers.
"We will look to see whether the five-year time horizon of the fiscal mandate could be shorter and even more binding now that the public finances are closer to balance.
"On the other hand, if we got the [trade] deficit closer to balance," Baker added, "it is very realistic".
