Sentence examples for consecutive budget from inspiring English sources

Martin was extremely successful in the post, eliminating a large budget deficit, achieving five consecutive budget surpluses, and securing the largest tax cut in Canadian history.

Only a month earlier, the fire chief, Buddy Martinette, had lobbied the City Council to replace the cantankerous engine at a session devoted to the latest of Wilmington's six consecutive budget gaps.

The state is facing its third consecutive budget squeeze and, since the state's homeowners carry the nation's highest property taxes, state officials felt they had little incentive to offer the kind of public money needed to keep the team.

Last week, the government became the first elected administration to survive long enough present its fifth consecutive budget.

During Rendell's mayoralty (from 1992 through 1999) he lowered wage and business taxes for four years, and generated five consecutive budget surpluses.

It's not unusual to find this tucked into a budget bill; lawmakers have been renewing the medical marijuana provision in every consecutive budget since it first passed in 2014.

"For the first time in 10 years, we passed two consecutive budgets on the first vote," he said.

BUDGET Even with the state enjoying a multibillion-dollar surplus because of high oil prices, Ms. Palin has vetoed about $500 million in capital spending projects requested by state lawmakers in two consecutive budgets.

When this year's deadline was blown, New York opened a new chapter in the annals of government dawdling: the state's 20th consecutive late budget.

However, the struggling economy largely the result of depressed world oil prices and a legacy of six consecutive national budget deficits left Harper open to criticism of his stewardship of the economy.

They also heard that the orchestra's music director, JoAnn Falletta, had signed a four-year contract extension, paying her $300,000 a year through the 2012-13 seandn, and that the orchestra had finished the 2006-7 season with its third consecutive balanced budget.