Sentence examples for of spending projects from inspiring English sources

"Your original request for $54 billion was declared dead on arrival by Republicans and Democrats alike because it was an overbroad collection of spending projects," he wrote.

[C7.] A Spending Plan to Revive Europe President Jacques Chirac, left, of France and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany announced a list of spending projects that they would like to see adopted in an effort to revitalize Europe's economy.

The leaders of France and Germany announced a list of spending projects today that they would like to see adopted in an effort to revitalize Europe's economy and spur growth.

But since many of the freshman Republicans campaigned on a pledge to cut spending and to change Washington's time-honored ways, their support of spending projects suggests that in many cases ideology can go only so far in serving the needs of people back home.

WASHINGTON — Having beaten back most of the Democrats' legislative initiatives, President Bush chided Congress on Thursday for wasteful spending and announced that his budget director would seek ways to reverse some of the thousands of spending projects attached to a huge spending bill.

This growth package must be built on broad-based tax relief that will directly affect economic growth and not the kind of spending projects that would have little immediate impact on our economy.

And they managed to derail a giant $1.2 trillion spending plan that was stuffed with tens of millions of dollars of pet spending projects, delaying crucial spending decisions until early next year when they will run the House and have more clout in the Senate.

But delivering a surplus is vital for Labor to counter long-standing voter perceptions of the party as poor economic managers and recover ground lost after a series of bungled spending projects ahead of last year's dead-heat elections.

Commonwealth Research and its parent organization, the Concurrent Technologies Corporation, were well-known beneficiaries of Congressional spending projects, known as earmarks.

The three-term governor is a dream candidate for the Democrats: a moderate who supports Mr Bush on tax cuts and Iraq but nevertheless endorses a slew of Democratic spending projects.

"In Russia, corruption isn't really a side effect of big spending projects, it's the reason," Ostrovsky said.