Sentence examples for spending countries from inspiring English sources

Saudi Arabia spent 9.3% of its GDP, the highest proportion of the world's biggest spending countries, having squeezed past Japan, France and Britain.

But expenditure by the state was rather similar; Italy spent 5.5%, Britain 5.7%, Austria 5.8% and the Netherlands 6%.Even in the higher spending countries, such as France and Germany, most of the gap was accounted for by private-sector spending.

Japan, for example, has been one of the largest deficit spending countries in the world for decades and can do so because Japanese households save at a very high rate.

However, our country already spends more on our military than the next seven highest spending countries combined.

"Further cuts are expected in most of Europe in 2011 and subsequent years, although these are likely to remain relatively modest in the major spending countries," SIPRI, which conducts independent research on international security, armaments and disarmament, said in a statement.

Several high spending countries are using a large share of their total health spending for HIV health, but these countries are the exception rather than representative of the average SSA country.

So companies in the big spending countries--France, Germany, and Italy--do best out of ESA contracts.

Only spent countries go for such claptrap.

The six highest-spending countries of 1994 (France and Norway were tied for fifth place) were spending 59.4% of GDP; this year they are spending just 52.8%.

When a country spends "more on defense than the next 17 top-spending countries combined" and can't win a war, you should know that something's wrong, and that "too big" and "fail" do stand in some relation to each other.

"For the first time in many years," Bell writes, "China is increasing its military budget at the same time the U.S. continues to spend more than China and the next 11 highest-spending countries.