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Discover LudwigThe phrase "strained budget" is correct and usable in written English
It is a phrase generally used to describe a financial situation wherein resources are limited. For example, "The city's strained budget meant that cost-cutting measures were necessary to balance the books."
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Despite a strained budget, New York continues making these investments essentially on its own.
Legislators, already facing a strained budget, will have to find millions more dollars to pay for this care.
What Moyes lacks, however, is European experience; he has built a competitive team on a strained budget, but it is a team without a trophy during his reign.
"The state already has a difficult enough time attending to its existing responsibilities due to a strained budget and limited personnel".
With historically low taxes and a historically strained budget, it is highly unlikely that a national overhaul of the levee system will happen.
Cubes of dried pigment in a Victorian set suggest that the owner had a strained budget; he would have dissolved shavings from the cubes to create low-cost inks.
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That's money that could be put to good use in these times of strained budgets.
And what might happen to local libraries, many of which already face declining use and strained budgets?
Kevin Stayton, the Brooklyn Museum's chief curator, said it was an effort, at a time of strained budgets, to make sure that "we're not overextending ourselves".
State governments will still be able to subsidise consumers, but the money will have to come out of their own strained budgets.
The survey, by the New York Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, found high turnover rates and strained budgets among nursing homes, despite efforts to attract nurses and aides.
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