Sentence examples for spending broadly from inspiring English sources

The congressional agency that investigates government spending broadly agreed.

In fact, they are a dodge, because they cut spending broadly without lawmakers having to defend specific cuts.

China, for instance, which spent $129 billion last year, has increased spending broadly in line with its GDP growth.

But last October the French president, Jacques Chirac, made a deal with the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, to keep CAP spending broadly unchanged until 2013.

If the three parties stick to their plans for taxes, and leave welfare spending broadly untouched, there will have to be massive cuts in spending on the main public services.

But several EU members, particularly France and the Mediterranean countries, view Mr Fischler's plans with deep suspicion.Worse, a deal between France's Jacques Chirac and Germany's Gerhard Schröder last year promised to keep CAP spending broadly unchanged until 2013.

We find that principals' time spent broadly on instructional functions does not predict student achievement growth.

"I began working as a novelist and would spend, broadly speaking, two years in a professional capacity alone," says Garland. "And I didn't like it.

If an MP spends broadly equal amounts of time in their constituency and London home, the parliamentary commissioner for standards in October 2008 advised that an MP should designate the second home as the one that provides better value for money for the taxpayer.

He said the number of appeals, as a proportion of tickets issued, in his area had fallen from 15% to 5% and the council spent broadly as much on enforcement as it got in from fines and other offences.

But until 2008 we had time to deal with this — and gradual solutions seemed most likely, preferably including ways to control the growth of health care spending more broadly across the economy.