Sentence examples for modest deficit from inspiring English sources

This is not the time to worry about a declining surplus or even a modest deficit.

Seen in this light, it had a modest deficit in 2008.

India's balance of trade in business and financial services has slipped into modest deficit from a surplus five years ago.

Those countries with a manageable debt burdens can afford to maintain their current, more modest deficit reduction plans, it added.

For a growing economy, a modest deficit over the course of the cycle is "prudent", provided that longer-term liabilities such as pensions are taken into account.

At around six o'clock it came, a seemingly impossible mix of modest deficit cuts, spending rises and revenues magically raised without corresponding tax increases.

A more modest deficit-reduction package now being discussed, however, would cut only $1.4 billion nationwide over 10 years.

That signals another contentious budget battle this fall, after the summer-long chain of events that ended with the relatively modest deficit-reduction deal, which cleared the way for a needed increase in the nation's debt limit but also provoked Standard & Poor's to downgrade the United States credit rating and contributed to days of market turbulence.

Modest deficits are not a problem.

The February figure comes after two relatively decent months with only modest deficits.

Justin Trudeau promised to respond to Canada's economic slowdown by running modest deficits and building infrastructure.