Sentence examples for constrain spending from inspiring English sources

In Germany and France, governments have had to push through reforms to try to constrain spending.

That makes it much harder for his budget to constrain spending.

Although the current recession is not expected to dampen passenger growth for long, ballooning government debt will constrain spending for years.

"Consumers also remain quite pessimistic about their future earnings, a sentiment that will likely constrain spending during the holidays," said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board's Consumer Research Center.

And contrary to Mr. Norquist's theory, the tax cuts of the George W. Bush years did not constrain spending, which rose as a share of the G.D.P. almost every year of his administration (as the raw data confirms).

" No such binding limits constrain spending.

Any benefits limit that constrains spending will therefore force a trade-off between working-age welfare and pensions.

At first blush, it might seem that a government shutdown would have a positive effect on the budget deficit, reducing its growth by constraining spending.

For starters, high levels of private and public debt are constraining spending – especially growth-enhancing capital spending, which fell (as a share of GDP) after the global financial crisis and has not recovered to pre-crisis levels.

"The problem with this type of a situation, where consumers become more concerned with reducing debt and constraining spending, is you have no idea how long it will last," he added.

For a Congress whose members routinely discuss the importance of adding jobs and constraining spending, an F.A.A. shutdown that lays off workers and makes projects more expensive would seem to go against common sense.