Sentence examples for drastic shortfall from inspiring English sources
The surrender, as Mr. Flinn describes it, was a pre-emptive strike, a way to head off a plan by the separate county school system that could have led to a drastic shortfall in city school revenues.
Economic forecasting group the Ernst & Young Item Club blames the drastic shortfall in pensions saving on the Treasury's 1997 decision to raise an extra £5bn a year by removing tax credits from share dividends.
Yet the commonwealth faces a daunting crisis in the form of a drastic shortfall in transportation funding, measured in the tens of billions of dollars, that threatens future prosperity.
LONDON — Organizers of the London Olympics scrambled on Tuesday to assure a skeptical nation that a drastic shortfall in security personnel that has forced the deployment of military reinforcements would not compromise the safety of the Games, whose opening ceremony is less than two weeks away.
The company was already under investigation for a stock hedging strategy that went awry and the handling of its third-quarter 2002 warning of a drastic shortfall in its financial results.
The majority are Syrian, and the UN says many are now seeking a better life in Europe because of poor conditions in refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon - caused in part because of a drastic shortfall in multilateral aid programmes.
The obvious troubles with such drastic shortfalls have come to a head in recent weeks.
In 2009, it announced plans to lay off more than 100 employees and slash several programs to cope with drastic budget shortfalls.
Another 17 proposed projects will not even be considered, so drastic is the shortfall in grain supplies, Mr. Ahmed said.
In a state that says it is already so short of public money it does not have enough to keep all the schools open and prosecute many criminals, Oregon took another drastic step this week to cover budget shortfalls: it cut off medications to thousands of schizophrenics, manic-depressives, drug addicts and others who are poor and have no health care.
Most experts believe the state can cover its shortfall for the current year without any drastic moves, but the next year's deficit has been estimated at $5 billion to $10 billion.
