Sentence examples for hard budget from inspiring English sources

Washington's unwillingness to make hard budget decisions pales compared with state and local governments'.

This is not a call to ignore the hard budget choices we have to make.

"In hard budget times people are willing to be more creative," Ms. Thomas said.

Third, this breathing currency union must include hard budget constraints on its members' national central banks.

"In hard budget times, when the poor need more help, they'll be the first to be cut".

This requires sorting out the current mess and introducing a flexible membership system based on hard budget constraints.

Mr. Bloomberg, who just won the City Council's approval to run for a third term, is clearly trying to get as much of the hard budgeting done before next year's elections.

An important caveat, however, is that a potentially negative effect on cost-containment can be counteracted if hard budgets are put in place.

This underlines the critical importance of designing methods of sharing financial risk if practices (especially small practices) are to hold hard budgets in future.

It is likely that the NHS Commissioning Board will allocate "hard" budgets to authorised clinical commissioning groups, in that the groups will be responsible for any surpluses or deficits in the budget.

For example, New Haven's Mayor, John DeStefano Jr., said this was "the hardest budget year" of his eight years in office.