Sentence examples for modern budget from inspiring English sources

A modern budget proposal from a science-funding agency could not have put it better.

Although most of the resources required for public spending are raised each year through taxation, it is rare for any modern budget to balance in any one year.

Sadly (for potentially-amused bystanders) this doesn't involve sprinting along the road in terror as a whirring hunk of metal zips towards your head like a modern, budget remake of North by Northwest.

As he put it in his speech to the European Parliament in June, "A modern budget for Europe is not one that ten years from now is still spending 40% of its money on the CAP".

"I think the budget agreement we reached, with a Commission-led review in 2008, gives the opportunity to debate from top to bottom the EU budget, what we spend, what we spend it on, and how contributions are made - both the Common Agricultural Policy and the rebate - and allows us to look right from the very beginning at what a sensible, modern budget is.

Launched in 1972 (a year before Britain joined the EEC, the precursor to the EU), the InterRail pass, which gave access to most of the continental rail network at a discounted rate, peaked in popularity in the mid-1980s, when some 300,000 young travellers a year would undertake the modern, budget equivalent of the European "grand tour".

Rather than "thumbing its nose" at management over the realities of modern budgets, the senior staff of "60 Minutes" has done an excellent job producing America's most watched and most respected TV news magazine while managing costs and maintaining profitability.

President Vicente Fox's new budget would also privatize the historic Churubusco Studios, one of the most modern in Latin America.

Yet Mr Blair was right to declare in June that a modern EU budget would not be one that spent 40% on agriculture.

The modern executive budget system in which the executive recommends, the legislature appropriates, and the executive oversees expenditures originated in 19th-century Britain.

Gov. Al Smith persuaded voters to agree to a "modern" state budget, proposed by the governor and approved or rejected by the Legislature.