Sentence examples for commitment ceiling from inspiring English sources

Van Rompuy proposed cutting the higher "commitment ceiling" from €993.6bn for the last budget from 2007-13 to €960bn for 2014-20.

Van Rompuy had informally proposed lowering his €971bn budget to €940bn according to the "payment ceiling" which covers the money the EU would distribute rather than the higher "commitment ceiling".

The casual way in which he reneged within days on the Conservative manifesto "commitment" to impose a ceiling on old people's bills in care homes was outrageous.

"Parents set a kind of glass ceiling of religious commitment, above which their children rarely rise".

For these reasons and more, I encourage Congress to get back to work and vote to meet our country's commitments by raising the debt ceiling.

Let's also raise the debt ceiling, but only with a commitment to end deficit spending — say, in four years.

But with so many euro zone countries far above that ceiling, the credibility of such commitments under the bloc's tattered Stability and Growth Pact is open to doubt.

Cantor describes "a temporary extension of the debt ceiling in exchange for a real commitment by this president.. to sit down and talk about the pressing problems facing the American people... it's about time this has happened".

Raising the debt ceiling simply re-affirms your prior commitments.

Analysts here thought they might manage a resounding commitment to curb the excess production above the existing ceiling.

The cost of Brent crude soared by 6.7% to $34.35 as Iran gave its verbal support for a production ceiling, even though it avoided making any immediate commitment to rein in its own growing output.