Sentence examples for delivering a surplus from inspiring English sources

Their more immediate task, however, will be to consider revising the budget with a view to delivering a surplus this year, thus mitigating the risk of a withdrawal of investor confidence.

But delivering a surplus is vital for Labor to counter long-standing voter perceptions of the party as poor economic managers and recover ground lost after a series of bungled spending projects ahead of last year's dead-heat elections.

At the time, the Coalition's then spokesman on scrutiny of government waste, Jamie Briggs, denounced "blatant political campaigns" and said: "If Labor were serious about reducing debt and delivering a surplus, they wouldn't engage in such wasteful spending".

The chancellor has signalled that he will make spending cuts of £4bn as he battles to hit his self-imposed target of delivering a surplus on the public sector finances by the end of this parliament.

Labour has stayed tied to their fiscal responsibility election promises, and delivering a surplus.

And we will deliver a surplus on the current budget".

Why can't Labor every deliver a surplus?

Imagine you had been treasurer of Australia for six years and never once delivered a surplus.

Whether Hockey is any more likely than Wayne Swan to deliver a surplus is not the point.

He endorsed a pledge by Joe Hockey (pictured), now the treasurer, to deliver a surplus in each year of his government's first three-year term.

He endorsed a pledge by Joe Hockey, now the treasurer, to deliver a surplus in each year of his government's three-year term.