Sentence examples for minimum of spending from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chiang said that the budget passed last week had a $1.85 billion gap and that it did not meet the legal minimum of spending on education.

In 2008, only five NATO members met a target of spending a minimum of 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense; one of them, Greece, is in deep difficulty over its debts.

Instead of spending a minimum of two months in the hospital in just two weeks we were on our way home with him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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].

Items included coffee (£2.20), tea (£1.85), a bacon butty (£3.55) and chocolate bars (80p), with a minimum card spend of £5.