Sentence examples for declared budget from inspiring English sources

The declared budget: one billion dollars.

Everyone knows, notes the voiceover for Brand New House for £5K, that makeover shows secretly stretch the declared budget by blagging favours behind the scenes, but this, we are promised, won't be happening here.

It estimated that China's actual military spending in 2008 was between $105 and $150 billion, compared with an officially declared budget of $60 billion that year.But China's decision to announce a much lower rate of growth in 2010 may be intended to send a signal.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies in London says the real level of spending in 2004 could have been about 1.7 times higher than the officially declared budget of 220 billion yuan ($26.5 billion at then exchange rates).This estimate would make China's spending roughly the same as that of France in 2004.

Never much more than a shell-group to funnel massive amounts of money from concealed sources into important political battleground states, NOM's declared budget has swelled from $500,000 to $10 million in just three years (not counting the role it played in battles such as Prop 8 in California and the assault on the freedom to marry in Maine).

Its passing prompted King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to declare budget emergencies.

If people understood about the big sacks of money hidden here or there or the huge parts of the budget that are magically declared "off budget," they might demand to know what's really going on.

Indeed, on the same day that Guangzhou posted figures for 114 agencies online, Shanghai declared its budget a state secret.

Proudly pointing to his new spending initiatives in education and medical research, he declared, "A budget's impact is counted in dollars, but measured in lives".

Republicans today declared the budget a nonstarter, although they agreed there was a chance that some provisions, like adding prescription drug coverage to Medicare, could be enacted this year.

At a media conference in Canberra at lunchtime, the treasurer, Scott Morrison, and the finance minister, Mathias Cormann, declared the budget blowout over the forward estimates amounted to $66.9bn.