Sentence examples for first deficit from inspiring English sources

This year, Japan expects to record its first deficit in trade with China, including Hong Kong.

That would be the first deficit below $1 trillion in five years, since the financial crisis of 2008.

This past year, we faced our first deficit in six years -- $661,000 on a budget of approximately $25 million.

But the stronger currency is starting to bite: the euro area had a current-account deficit of $6.7 billion in January, its first deficit since May 2003.

Dan Wakin's down there for the Times, reporting on the controversy surrounding the festival's having racked up its first deficit in a decade.

A6 A Deficit for the Vatican The Vatican reported its first deficit in nine years, more than $3 million, despite a rise in contributions from dioceses last year.

By contrast, Bill Clinton shed dozens of House Democrats and six Senate Democrats on his first, deficit-reducing, tax-raising budget.

Asked in an appearance last summer about the "toughest one or two decisions" and the "highest moments, just the greatest feelings" he had encountered as president, he put one episode in both categories: pushing through his first deficit-reduction package in 1993.

Like America, Britain is still perceived as solvent by financial markets, giving it room to pursue a strategy of jobs first, deficits later.

And here is the second deficit.

The second deficit I would see as a loss of a sense of the virtues and values of the past.