Sentence examples for double capital from inspiring English sources

The company plans to almost double capital spending this year to remodel 33 stores open at least three years.

In his speech, Mr Brown lamented "a backlog of under-investment" and promised to double capital investment with a new "Investing in Britain" fund.

Although the government has committed £4 billion (enough to double capital investment in education) to its industrial strategy, Mr Cable vigorously defends the expense, stressing that the beneficiaries of Leviathan's largesse are chosen by peer-reviewed experts.

The Dutch bank had struggled to prepare for Basel 2, the new capital standard; last November RBS said that implementing it would roughly double capital requirements at its bit of ABN, an abnormally high increase.

He added that the challenge of delivering housing was not new "but the effect of unaffordable housing on our nation's productivity makes it an urgent one", and said the government planned to more than double capital expenditure on housing.

WASHINGTON, June 21 (Reuters) - Two top U.S. bank regulators are pushing to double capital requirements for the country's largest banks, Bloomberg reported on Friday, as the debate about banks that are "too big to fail" heats up.

Calling themselves les pigeons, or "suckers", French entrepreneurs mounted an online revolt last week against the government's plan to double capital-gains tax to some 60%.

"We have both kept debt low and at the same time more than doubled capital investment in our schools, hospitals and infrastructure from just £18bn a year in 1997 to this year £43bn," he said.

They nearly doubled capital expenditures this year.

Three years later Duffy, now 55, has relocated Keefe Bruyette to Midtown, doubled the staff to 410 from the level before Sept. 11 and also doubled capital to $285 million, mainly via retained earnings and staff stock buys.

The accord would more than double the capital requirements and be countercyclical, meaning that as losses accrued, capital reserve requirements would increase.