Sentence examples for closing deficits from inspiring English sources

Few are harder or messier than 2010 New Jersey, where Mr. Christie is trying to wrestle a Legislature controlled by Democrats into closing deficits, eliminating layers of government, paring public employees' pay and benefits, and changing the rules on ethics, campaign finance, government contracting and employee job security.

At the global level, the post-2015 ageneedseeds to focus on closing deficits in the health workforce to achieve UHC in the context of SPFs.

"There is no way to imagine an economic scenario that closes deficits as big as the city and state have.

Such outlays tend to be popular, but without higher taxes they need to be reduced to close deficits.

"I've worked for two years to close deficits, $10 billion deficits, which was all the money in the world," the governor said at an afternoon news conference.

The city should use some of its budget surplus to close deficits predicted for 2007 and beyond, according to a report released yesterday by a state fiscal monitor.

After scrambling to close deficits that totaled $113 billion in fiscal 2009, the conference reported, lawmakers faced a staggering shortfall of $143 billion for 2010.

In the last three years, the UK's major listed employers have spent more than £15bn topping them up in a desperate bid to close deficits.

A grand bargain could theoretically mitigate the sizable pending fiscal headwinds, but a deal could also close deficits too quickly, pushing the economy into an austerity-induced recession.

"As a nation, we face difficult times – challenged by a crumbling infrastructure, growing deficits, rogue nations, and irresponsible Washington spending," Mulvaney said in a statement on Sunday ― even though the budget doesn't close deficits or un-crumble infrastructure.

Mr. Bloomberg, who has learned a thing or two about closing large deficits this year, said: "I'm sympathetic to any agency.