Sentence examples for predicting budget from inspiring English sources

In 2000, the bean-counters in Congress were predicting budget surpluses as far as the eye could see.

All of this, of course, is based on very long-term projections by a government that has often had trouble predicting budget surpluses and deficits a year or two in advance.

How do Republicans propose a $4 billion tax increase?' " Only a handful of legislatures are considering major increases to broad-based taxes, like those on sales or income, even though two-thirds of the states are predicting budget gaps in 2005, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

That's enough money to cover the EU's predicted budget shortfall for 2013.

In Washington it is a bagatelle: about what the feds spend in three days, or less than 2% of the predicted budget deficit for this year.

Surely a government with the capacity to predict budget surpluses over a period of years has the ability to predict an increase in phone inquiries over a few months.

The state comptroller's office now estimates the state's current deficit at a record-setting $1.1 billion, and the predicted budget gap for the next two fiscal years has soared beyond $8 billion.

The official Dutch economics analysis office predicted budget deficits of 4.5%, 4.1%, and 3.3% for the next three years, all in breach of the new rules, presenting a dilemma for the minority coalition of liberals and Christian Democrats.

The five core mountain states Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah all predict budget surpluses at the end of 2005, and energy prices are fuelling that prosperity.Last year, energy companies spent $10.7 billion in acquisitions and development in what geologists call the Greater Rocky Mountain Region (GRMR).

From the German perspective, years of frugality and sacrifice have led to a strong economy, a full treasury and predicted budget surpluses to the end of Ms. Merkel's next four-year term in 2017.

This year, California has a predicted budget deficit of more than $20 billion dollars.