Sentence examples for down a deficit from inspiring English sources

He confirms that the Government is grabbing money from public sector workers to pay down a deficit they did nothing to create, even at a time when their pay is frozen for two years and many are facing job losses.

But the Economy Minister Gyorgy Matolcsy told public television M1 that Hungary has been tightening its belt for years to bring down a deficit that peaked in 2006, under the previous Socialist government, at 9 percent of gross domestic product — three times the E.U. limit.

Let's call them Road A and Road B. (By fiscal balance, I mean getting down a deficit that keeps the debt ratio stable, let's say 2percentt of GDP).

He added, almost unnecessarily, "We couldn't afford to go down 3-0" — a deficit that no N.B.A. team has ever overcome.

The Mavs avoided going down 3-1, a deficit no team has ever overcome in the finals, and guaranteed the series will return to Miami for a Game 6 on Sunday night.

To pay down a sustainable deficit too far, too fast.

Even before this crisis, the Bush administration was on schedule to hand down a $550 billion deficit to the next administration.

It was Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency; Reagan who worked with Democrats to save Social Security and who, by the way, raised taxes to help pay down an exploding deficit.

Morrison, who handed down a $40bn budget deficit in May, the third deficit of the Abbott-Turnbull government, claimed it "continues to ensure that we do not spend more than we save".

He has to bring down a record peacetime deficit and protect the UK's fragile recovery.

Lee pointed to the Knicks' knocking down a 13-point deficit to 1 in the second quarter and said: "We made a great comeback.