Sentence examples for returned to deficit from inspiring English sources

The trade balance returned to deficit as world trade rebounded, but at about €500m, it is now far smaller than it was.

But members of Congress are not sure how Amtrak should be financed now that the budget has returned to deficits, Mr. Coston said.

And the talk in Washington will return to deficit reduction.

Mr. Fleischer used the numbers to counter Democratic charges that the administration would return to deficit spending this year, not counting the revenue set aside for Social Security.

Urban unemployment shot up, and the government had no choice but to return to deficit spending.

But Democrats argue that the "reserve" fund at the heart of this have-it-all argument is "oversubscribed," meaning the government will ultimately face hard choices, including returning to deficits or deep cuts in spending.

And it is no coincidence that this rule was in place when we moved from record deficits to record surpluses in the 1990s and that when this rule was abandoned, we returned to record deficits that doubled the national debt.

Since 2009 primary deficits have narrowed a lot in southern countries (see chart 1), and Italy's has returned to surplus.Current-account deficits are also improving.

But investors are not interested in a return to deficit spending.

If the tax breaks passed last spring are not rolled back, paying for a strong assault on terrorism will require either cuts in other parts of the federal budget or a return to deficit spending -- as soon as next year, according to recent forecasts.

Speaking at FreeMarkets and at a senior citizens' center here, the senator argued that while Mr. Gore's proposed tax cuts and spending plans fit comfortably within the projected government surpluses of the next decade, Gov. George W. Bush's would mean a return to deficit spending.