Sentence examples for halt spending from inspiring English sources

The costs of closing (who knew it cost money to halt spending?) are themselves swiftly rising.

Li offered the first measurable commitments, promising to cut the government workforce, halt spending on government offices and hotels, freeze spending on overseas trips and official vehicles and slash the 1,700 processes requiring government approval by a third.

On November 4, 2008, Jacquelyn Heard, the mayor's press secretary, said the city would halt spending on 10 public relations contracts that could have paid as much as $5 million each.

Greece's largest labor union has called a new general strike for Nov. 6, in its latest attempt to halt spending cuts imposed as part of Greece's 240 billion-euro ($325 billion) bailout agreements.

It's a five-pronged attack on public spending: Halting spending on new IT projects, and cancelling any underperforming contracts even if they are underway.

These include halting spending on new IT projects, and cancelling any underperforming contracts even if they are underway, as well as putting a brake on discretionary spending, clamping down on expenses, IT spending and similar areas.

The shadow chancellor promised that a Conservative government would launch an immediate war on government waste, by halting spending on new IT systems and leaving thousands of public sector vacancies unfilled.

Worse still, Mr Bush shows little inclination to plug it: many on Wall Street hoped for a Kerry victory if only because a split between Congress and the executive might have halted spending growth.This caution about the economy is visible in the niggardly yields on Treasury bonds.

Another warning, issued privately to lawmakers by Standard & Poor's and reported widely, was perhaps even more chilling: Even if the government stays current on its debt payments but halts spending on other items due to the lack of a timely debt deal, the agency might issue a downgrade.

Then if people stop spending, the economy will grind to a halt and people will lose jobs.

A judge denied a request last week by a New Brunswick activist to immediately halt state spending.