Sentence examples for draft forecasts from inspiring English sources

Each of the successive five draft forecasts sent confidentially to the chancellor by the OBR before the spending review was more optimistic than the previous one, giving the chancellor more and more leeway to meet his goal of putting the overall budget into surplus by 2019-20, execute a U-turn on tax credits and spare many government departments some of the pain they were expecting.

Mr. Kraft had not begun to draft his forecast for Thanksgiving.

An investigation by Reuters found that Canadian crude shipments by rail to the Gulf were a fifth of what the draft SEIS forecast.

ATHENS — Offering the first real hope that Greece could emerge from a six-year recession, the government on Monday presented a draft budget for next year forecasting a tenuous return to growth.

My scenarios here are intended analytically, as a first-draft straw-man forecast: The Nineties Afghan Civil War on Steroids: Even if the international community gave up on Afghanistan and withdrew, as it did from Somalia during the early nineties, it is inconceivable that the Taliban could triumph in the country completely and provide a regime (however perverse) of stability.

Forecasts for this draft have ranged from predictions of a run on quarterbacks in the top half of the first round to expectations of no quarterback selections in the first round at all.

The Boston Globe reported the state will likely collect $381 million more in taxes this year than last, but that slow economic growth dragged revenues below the forecasts used to draft the budget.

His latest is to forecast the military draft if the defense budget is cut.

The Greek government made the forecast in a first draft of its 2014 budget, which predicted 0.6% growth.

Just as no one could have forecast some of the more disturbing draft stories involving high school athletes.

The draft report on the Northeastern United States reads like a forecast for Superstorm Sandy: "extreme coastal storm events including storm surge, coupled with accelerated sea level rise represent the highest potential impact scenario".