Sentence examples for deficits were persistent from inspiring English sources

Current-account deficits were persistent.

In spite of savage spending cuts, government deficits are persistent and high.

These behavioral deficits are persistent as we have detected the prepulse inhibition deficits at postnatal month six.

A referral for a specialized consultation should not be required until the clinician has observed a functional deficit that is persistent or deteriorating[ 10] after four weeks.

He said the persistent deficits were due mainly to increases in health insurance premiums and in mandatory contributions to the state pension plan.

In 2007-08 Malaysia recorded a surplus on the services account of the balance of payments, but this was largely owing to growth in tourism.By contrast, there have been persistent deficits on transport and the "other services" category of the services account.

The coefficient of lagged dependent variable shows that the current account deficit in developed economies is persistent.

Another important factor may be persistent trade deficits, which emerged in the 1980s and since then have fluctuated but never gone away.

The extremes seem to reflect the uncertain economic times: shoppers may have returned to their prerecession ways during the holidays, but state budget deficits are ballooning, and there are persistent mutterings about the deep repair work that is needed to fix the economy.

But the long-term budget outlook, according to the office, is persistent high deficits that will accumulate to drive the debt ever upward, to the point that it could nearly equal the value of the nation's entire economic output by 2020.

We surveyed Scottish intensive care trainees to ascertain whether such deficits are widespread and persistent.