Sentence examples for major budget items from inspiring English sources

Thus other major budget items have experienced significant reduction; for example vegetation and watershed management (22percentt reduction), facilities (67percentt reduction), roads (46percentt reduction), and deferred maintenance (95percentt reduction) (USDA Forest Service 2014).

MEPs want spending levels for those major budget items to be at least maintained at the 2007-2013 level but also want "significant increases" in budgets for competitiveness, small business, sustainable infrastructure and research and innovation.

The major budget items of the second stimulus package were investments in transport infrastructure, income tax deductibility of handymen services, and a more attractive depreciation of investments in immovable property.5 The fiscal stimulus induced by these measures appears to have been modest, especially in 2009.

The winners, given in a Japanese summary of major budget items by the Ministry of Education, include a near tripling of funding, to $107 million, for several new and expanded "green initiatives" intended to make Japan a low-carbon society and grants for basic research by academics, up 1.7% to $3 billion.

"Clothes aren't a major budget item for me," she said lightly.

Medicare spending is already a major budget item -- $519 billion in 2010 -- and headed toward $929 billion by 2020.

Although some centers have been successful in soliciting donations of raffle or incentive items, incentives remain a major budget item for all.

That may have led Mr. Obama to announce a freeze on nonmilitary discretionary spending, and yet this freeze refuses to target major, popular budget items like Social Security.

Mr. Lance and Mr. Cohen both said they expected Mr. Collins and Mr. DiFrancesco would easily agree on ways to protect their respective members, whether through budget items in lawmakers' districts or by involving them in major initiatives.

Budget items like shipping costs are lower.

One of the European Commission's biggest budget items is translation.