Sentence examples for resolving the deficit from inspiring English sources

That ranks it as less important than education (8%) and resolving the deficit (7%), but more important than Europe (4%), pensions (3%) and crime and disorder, which only 2% of those surveyed name as their chief concern.

The Treaty of Lisbon may go some way to resolving the deficit in creating greater democratic controls on the Commission, including enshrining the procedure of linking elections to the selection of the Commission president.

On Wednesday, France was ordered by the union to either cut taxes or reduce spending to resolve the deficit problem by October.

The backbench motion sponsored by six MPs also asks fellow parliamentarians to note the failure of Green to resolve the deficit in the company pension fund over many years and calls on him to fulfil his promise to do so.

There will be some difficult issues ahead for Labour to resolve: the deficit reduction path, immigration caps, Trident, a European referendum, the 50p tax rate, making a reality of the localism agenda.

Mr. Rowland, a Republican, had been threatening layoffs for months unless state workers agreed to wage concessions, but many workers said they figured that union negotiators and Democratic lawmakers who control the Legislature would resolve the deficit by other means.

If the country experiences a major economic setback as a result of the inability of Congress and the administration to resolve the deficit dilemma, Obama will not emerge with clean hands.

"I will be working with legislative leadership on how we can resolve the deficit if the forecast materializes as expected," Kulongoski wrote.

This special committee, extraordinarily inappropriately named, was created by Congress in a last-ditch effort to resolve the deficits of the past years.

And Iain Wright, the MP who chairs the business, innovations and skills committee, told Radio 4's Today programme he was frustrated by the lack of progress in resolving the pension deficit.

The spokesman added that Mr. Lew "was instrumental in resolving the structural budget deficit N.Y.U.