Sentence examples for one-time gimmick from inspiring English sources

It rated well, thanks to the hype Ohlmeyer engineered, but he knew it was a one-time gimmick.

Dean Martin, the state's treasurer and a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor this fall, has derided the sale as a one-time gimmick used to circumvent the state's debt limit and avoid the hard choices he contends Arizona needs to make about what he calls "unsupportable spending".

Gov. John G. Rowland vetoed the Democratic budget not just because it had an increase in the income tax but because it was unbalanced, violated the spending cap and had one-time gimmicks (including a temporary income tax surcharge on millionaires) that inflated the outyear gap to more than $600 million.

Some states have already tapped so-called rainy day funds, and others have turned to a variety of one-time gimmicks to balance their budgets.

"By their own admission, over half of their new license revenue resulted not from ordinary course-sustainable business but from one-time gimmicks".

"If states don't turn to one-time gimmicks, you can solve the problems of 2011 and 2012 while you're solving the ones of 2010," Mr. Dautrich said.

Unloading public assets can too easily be the sort of one-time budget gimmick that does little long-term good.

California has coped with its fiscal crisis with one-time budget gimmicks and deep cuts in spending on higher education, health care and numerous programs, from parks to the arts.

Once you do that, you can identify one-time gains or other gimmicks that can create ephemeral increases or otherwise make the results appear better than they actually are.

The state government, meanwhile, has become addicted to fiscal gimmicks, one-time revenues, off-budget authorities and, this year, a questionable borrowing mechanism to deal with its financial crisis, fiscal experts said.

Mr. Parola said the county also relied on $69.5 million in one-time revenues or savings, the kind of fiscal gimmick that helped push Nassau to the brink of bankruptcy.