Sentence examples for scope of spending from inspiring English sources

Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for the mayor's re-election campaign, defended the pace and scope of spending.

It initially proposed that spending be limited to the disaster zone, but widened the scope of spending at the urging of opposition lawmakers — especially those from the Liberal Democratic Party, who called for the government to think bigger to kick-start Japan's recovery.

The two sides also disagree on the scope of spending cuts and whether to include changes to programs like Social Security and Medicare.

It has plenty of scope to spend more.

Asian households' low rate of consumption and borrowing means that they have huge scope to spend more.

"Shareholders want to see the full scope of political spending,'' said Mr. Freed.

Liberal groups immediately condemned the plan when news of it broke, for its Social Security and Medicare changes and for the scope of the spending cuts.

If it does not, it could impede Congress's authority to determine the nature and scope of federal spending for the general welfare.

If it accepts the coercion argument now, the Supreme Court would basically usurp Congress's authority to determine the nature and scope of federal spending for the general welfare.

The debate is part of a wider argument about the role of government in America and the scope of federal spending in the face of the recession and spiralling US deficits.

To put the scope of the spending into perspective, think of it this way: the bill will devote about $50 billion to transportation projects, which is about what the federal government authorizes for transportation every year.