Sentence examples for permanent surplus from inspiring English sources

Because precipitation in tropical rainforest regions exceeds evapotranspiration at almost all times, a nearly permanent surplus of water exists in the soil and moves downward through the soil into streams and rivers in valley floors.

At the same time the EU - along with the United States - used its arable farming handouts to maintain a permanent surplus of cheap cereal grains, making it uneconomic to feed animals on their natural food, grass.

Having outlined conditions that imply a permanent surplus, which inevitably implies deteriorating opportunities and compensation, the report nonetheless repeats the recommendations of the original Gathering Storm report to greatly expand this already overcrowded workforce.

For more than three decades, governments - particularly those of the US and the EU - have used the subsidy system to maintain a near-permanent surplus of wheat on world markets, sweeping away pasture systems and making it more profitable for farmers to confine their animals to sheds and feedlots.

And, amazingly, the chancellor still plans both to rack up a permanent budget surplus and to shrink the state to a mere 36% of GDP.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Varoufakis said he would create new growth-linked bonds to swap for outstanding debt, run a permanent budget surplus and target wealthy tax evaders.

To wrongfoot the opposition still further, the chancellor now plans to enforce permanent budget surpluses in law.

The chancellor's plans, announced in his Mansion House speech, for "permanent budget surpluses" are nothing more than an attempt to outmanoeuvre his opponents (Report, 10 June).

George Osborne's plan to enshrine permanent budget surpluses in law is a political gimmick that ignores "basic economics", a group of academic economists has warned.

Osborne's main fiscal rule, or target, is to run permanent budget surpluses in normal times starting by the end of the tax year 2019-20 in a bid to cut the national debt.

Osborne's Victorian, permanent budget surpluses – except during recessions – is pre-Keynesian neoliberal dogma, requiring a constant squeeze on public spending: his equivalent of the Tea Party "starve the beast" strategy in the US, which is dogmatically political, not soundly economic.