Sentence examples for for current spending from inspiring English sources

Borrowing for current spending is different to borrowing to acquire assets.

Many colleges budget 4 to 6 percent of the endowment's value for current spending.

The assault on socially owned housing and land forces councils and housing associations to sell, using the money for current spending.

Outsourcing such borrowing power to a national investment bank is merely a way to signal that any additional borrowing will be used for investment, not for current spending.

This would leave little money for current spending, let alone for paying down the federal debt and increasing military and school expenditures.

In a self-destructive gimmick, the state seriously underfunded its pension plan and used the money to pay for current spending programs.

The requirements leave some room for deficit financing of current spending for a year or two, by running down rainy-day funds or the use of various accounting devices, especially if the deficit is the result of a downturn that was not expected when the budget was passed.

In a letter to the House Appropriations Committee and in a visit to Capitol Hill for a private meeting with the House speaker, John A. Boehner, Mrs. Clinton sounded the alarm about reductions that she said amounted to a 16 percent decrease for the State Department from current spending and a 41 percent cut in money available for humanitarian programs.

He said staff salaries accounted for about 50% of current spending in the public sector.

House Republicans unveiled a bill on Friday that would trim $60 billion from current spending for the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year, while at the same time increasing defense spending by more than $8 billion.

In macroeconomic and budgetary policy for many years, the government's accounts were presented in two parts: "above the line" (the balance of current spending on, for example, pay for doctors, nurses and other public sector workers) and "below the line" (the cost of capital investment on, for instance, the infrastructure).