Sentence examples for on current spending from inspiring English sources

It would continue to reduce the deficit on current spending, closing it altogether by 2020.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that war spending in Afghanistan and elsewhere could total $1.4 trillion over the next decade based on current spending levels.

The long-term health of the UK's research base and of the economy as a whole should not be jeopardised by a retrenchment on current spending commitments.

Costs for the National Health Service are also growing rapidly and a £30bn shortfall on current spending is predicted by health chiefs as early as 2020.

In the Budget, this year's expected £11bn deficit on current spending is turned around, as the economy accelerates, to become a £1bn surplus by 2007-8.

Indeed, in the past year, the deficit on current spending hardly changed, with almost all the reduction in the total deficit coming from cuts in investment spending.

"The re-competition [sic] of these contracts offers the market an opportunity of significant scale (based on current spend, the total contract value is likely to be in the region of £1bn)," says the Ministry of Justice in its latest competition strategy document.

True, state and local governments do have to make annual interest payments on their bonds, but these payments represent a modest 4 percent to 5 percent on the whole of current spending — no more than in the late 1970s.

These foreign-currency debts would become costlier to repay, and "would probably cause some financial institutions to fail .Conditions in the financial markets have also, indirectly, deprived the near-broke Russian government of revenues that it was counting on for current spending needs.

This number is roughly equal to current spending on the military.

The federal 18.4 cent-a-gallon gasoline and 24.4 cent-a-gallon diesel taxes are no longer enough to pay for current spending on highway and transit programs.