Sentence examples for driven budget from inspiring English sources

The nation saw an amiable presentation of the most ideologically driven budget since Ronald Reagan's supply-side offering in 1981.

A slowed economy and salary increases recently negotiated with employee unions have driven budget gaps to $4.3 billion in the coming year and $6.2 billion and $7.9 billion in the next two years.

Unemployment, rising gas prices and more expensive food have "put a tremendous amount of pressure on consumers, who have become extremely value driven, budget minded, list minded, less impulsive and very deal oriented," said Bill Melnick, director for strategic planning at SAI Marketing, which studies consumer behavior for brands like Dole.

It is the same problem again and again of short-term, politically driven budget cycles overriding the provision of good-quality care for children, and delivering a false economy of savings now at greater expense later.

"We've always driven budgets by safeguarding jobs and protecting frontline services; this level of cuts will not allow us to do that.

"This is not a cook book, however," Nussle insisted, "it's more like a travel book"; it is a framework for thinking about how to do evidence-based and data driven budgeting and programming.

He sees public-employee unions as a bane to the taxpayer because they demand — and often win — generous health and pension plans that help push up taxes and drive budget deficits higher.

In addition, with carefully defined and vetted business processes, you can provide risk and compliance managers with greater assurance of data accuracy and approvals, which in a litigious society can drive budget approval for an ECM solution.

Kaiser wants his foundation's obligations to grow: "In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around".

If the CLP is ultimately driven by budget shortfalls, then perhaps the budget should be increased.

"These decisions are entirely driven by budget," he said.