Sentence examples for on a deficit from inspiring English sources

(Preliminary estimates indicate that the state would take on a deficit of approximately $370m if it did so).

Some schools could end up operating on a deficit model".

The coalition was elected on a deficit reduction strategy".

With higher costs and fewer students, the archdiocese can no longer subsidize schools running on a deficit.

When the city returned control to the Queens group, it had operated on a deficit for five years.

Even with hundreds of thousands of tourists visiting annually, the cathedral has operated on a deficit for the past few years.

Patients are selected on the basis of a theoretically interesting deficit, not on an absence of a deficit.

A month later their negotiations on a deficit-reduction compromise collapsed in acrimony, unsettling financial markets.

A bipartisan group of senators, meanwhile, continues to work on a deficit-reduction scheme inspired by the fiscal commission set up by the president last year.

Absent their agreement on a deficit-reduction alternative, the standoff forced indiscriminate across-the-board spending cuts, known as sequestration, for military and domestic programs, starting last weekend.

President George Bush and Democrats in Congress had agreed on a deficit-reduction package in 1990, but the deficits had continued to increase.