Sentence examples for generous spending from inspiring English sources

In Mexico City, the country has been generous, spending more than $6 million.

Mr Osborne had to swap his generous spending plans for austerity.

This mission creep was made possible by generous spending settlements under the last Labour government.

But with the return of fiscal stability also came generous spending whenever the economy permitted.

Low prices can mean financial turmoil for governments that relied on high ones to fund generous spending.

And it represents a poor return on relatively generous spending: in 2006 government spending on education came to 5.4% of GDP, including 26.8% of the federal discretionary budget.

It is much easier to simply say that one cannot place a value on a human life – even as we must, and do: witness the fact that some primary care trusts made no new investment in end-of-life care during the last financial year, while the most generous spent £5.4m.

Ending this anomaly by withdrawing the state pension from the top fifth of retirees, while abolishing the triple-lock and capping rises to 1% for two years (the treatment Mr Osborne has already given working-age welfare) would save £18 billion by 2020, and mean cutting only 11% from non-ring-fenced departments.Britain's fiscal problems are partly the result of over-generous spending on the old.

Its research suggests the north east is the most generous region, spending an average £683, while Cornwall spends the least at £527.

Conservatives think we tax too much and liberals think we spend too little, but the present combination of relatively low middle-class taxes and relatively generous entitlement spending is one that most Americans would happily maintain in perpetuity.

Each promises generous social spending and a city's worth of low-cost housing.