Sentence examples for minimum level of spending from inspiring English sources

By committing the city to a minimum level of spending on public schools, he said, "you lose all ability to hold them accountable".

There is a certain minimum level of spending required for core services like national defence, law and order, and basic education.

The worst-paid among teachers in Brazil's poorest states, got big pay rises in 1998 after the government changed the constitution to mandate a minimum level of spending per pupil across the country.

The vote followed a four-hour backbench business debate on a motion endorsing a minimum level of spending on defence as 2% of GDP – a level set by Nato – in which MPs from across the political spectrum repeatedly urged the government to protect defence spending.

This could have considerable implications if biologically relevant sage-grouse benefits do not accrue without a minimum level of spending.

It would like to see poor countries commit to minimum levels of spending on basic services (rather than a thicket of detailed targets) as part of a global pact that would include a significant boost to aid.

From his lowly beginnings, on a council estate in Tottenham in north London, he understood the "emotional case" for socialism, and worried about minimum levels of spending on the poor.

There are safety-nets which reduce or remove patient co-payments once a certain level of out-of-pocket spending has been reached, but many households struggle before they meet these minimum levels of spending [ 14].

But even as Mr. Gates drew a new line in the sand on "the minimum level of defense spending that is necessary," the latest reductions seemed to fuel the sense that the military budget was now in play.

"This plan represents, in my view, the minimum level of defense spending that is necessary, given the complex and unpredictable array of security challenges the United States faces around the globe: global terrorist networks, rising military powers, nuclear-armed rogue states and much, much more," Mr. Gates said.

Persons who started life with a minimum level of education or less and subsequently spent most of their working life in a manual or routine occupation were twice as likely to report pain in later life, which interfered with their normal activities, compared with those starting with more than the minimum level of education, followed by an occupationally based high SEP during their working life.