Sentence examples for comfortable surplus from inspiring English sources

Including measures announced in his pre-budget report, Mr Brown was able to give away £8 billion ($12 billion) in the fiscal year ahead while still forecasting a comfortable surplus.

In his last term, Dr. Dean won a change in law so that Vermont taxes were not automatically lowered by Mr. Bush's cut in federal income taxes, and Vermont had a comfortable surplus this spring when most other states faced crippling budget shortfalls.

We have to close this era's "Lippmann gap," named for Walter Lippmann, the leading foreign policy journalist of his day, who almost 60 years ago established the need for foreign policy "solvency", defined as "bringing into balance, with a comfortable surplus of power in reserve, the nation's commitments and the nation's power".

WITH sky-high approval ratings and a comfortable budget surplus, Argentina's president, Néstor Kirchner, can usually expect to get what he wants.

They have turned a comfortable budget surplus into a constraining deficit, and they are enriching the wealthy far more than families with only five-figure incomes.

If there is one state for the others to envy, it is North Dakota, with the lowest unemployment rate in the nation — 3.8 percent, amid a labor shortage — and a comfortable cash surplus, thanks in part to a growing petroleum industry.

As it is no longer paying its private creditors, Argentina now has a comfortable budget surplus that means that at least for now, the government can afford expansive economic policies without asking for new loans.

In the last four years, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker cut taxes by close to $2 billion dollars and the Badger State now enjoys a comfortable $912 million budget surplus.

Denmark is a net exporter of food and energy and enjoys a comfortable balance of payments surplus, but depends on imports of raw materials for the manufacturing sector.

"And we ended up with a balanced budget and a surplus". As comfortable as he was and as familiar as he seemed shaking every hand, posing for every picture during his lunchtime visit to Manchester, it's unclear how voters here — many of whom never even had a chance to vote for him — will factor Bill Clinton's testimony into their decision.

Like Dr. King, we do not seek to comfort the comfortable; we do not seek to give away our hard-won surplus to the powerful few, but to use it to establish justice and opportunity for the many".