Sentence examples for reduction of the budget from inspiring English sources

Moscovici made a passionate plea for the reduction of the budget deficit – and therefore the French debt burden – in an interview with Le Monde this weekend.

And in the end, I even said I could work with a 90 percent reduction of the budget, because with that at least I could maintain the collection.

Based on the principles of "freedom, fairness and responsibility", the programme includes plans for a wholesale reform of schools, a shake-up of the welfare system and measures to "accelerate" the reduction of the budget deficit.

At the Treasury, Mr. Rubin has won bipartisan plaudits for his handling of the reduction of the budget deficit and for many of the other difficult economic issues he has touched.

Mr Mbeki is thought to have been the driving force behind the growth, employment and redistribution plan, a document that commits South Africa to a gradual reduction of the budget deficit, to privatisation and to a streamlining of the bureaucracy.

Mr. Osborne said Wednesday that he entered the job "at a time of enormous economic challenges" and that there would be "a significant acceleration in the reduction of the budget deficit".

The government would offset the effect of the tax reductions on the budget through higher sales and carbon taxes, as well as cuts in government spending.

It proposed a 13percentt reduction to the budget of the Department of Transportation, including slashing funds to the successful "TIGER" grant program, which has been used to fund highway, rail, and transit projects.

With the end of the Cold War, the probability of a ground invasion of Switzerland ended, substantially changing Swiss military doctrine and resulting in reduction of both the budget and the size of the Swiss Armed Forces.

And at a school that has already endured multiple rounds of budget cuts and a hiring freeze, the plan relies on still more cutting, including a 7 percent reduction of the operating budget in the coming academic year.

Several residents also spoke in favor of further reductions to the budget for state prisons, but Glendale City Councilwoman Laura Friedman cautioned against the "terrifying" potential consequences of such cuts.