Sentence examples for surplus approach from inspiring English sources

"With very small exceptions, the ceiling surplus approach was not going anywhere because people who owned the land and stood to lose were much more politically powerful than those who were going to gain," said Tim Hanstad, the president and chief executive of Landesa.

With all that, the city would produce a surplus approaching $1 billion, but it would have to spend all that money in one place, to help cover the projected $6.4 billion shortfall for the new fiscal year beginning July 1.

In Virginia, with a surplus approaching $1 billion, Jim Gilmore, the Republican governor who last year successfully fought the Democrats to push through a phased elimination of the tax on cars is proposing a near-halving of the 4.5% sales tax on groceries for home consumption.

GDP grew at around 11 percent; the trade surplus approached $260 billion at year's end; foreign exchange reserves were up a spectacular $135.7 billion in the first quarter of 2007 from year's end 2006; and the Chinese renminbi continued to appreciate against the U.S. dollar at an annual rate of about 5 percent.

Over the past decade they have racked up surpluses approaching the size of the combined GDP of all 19 Arab states, $2.9 trillion.

Korea's current account surplus will approach $40 billion in 1998, while its currency reserves are up from $7 billion late last year to a record $46 billion.

When surplus embryos approach the storage time limit, there are several options for patients.

The Dutch export economy has actually been doing quite well, growing over 2% over the past year; the country's current account surplus is approaching an all-time high of 10%.

In an infinite world where resources aren't scarce and markets don't get saturated with surplus dollars, such an approach might work.

In better economic times, Connecticut lawmakers bickered for months over how to spend surpluses that occasionally approached $1 billion.

This industrial approach indicated that surplus tomatoes possess a high content of antioxidants, offering an alternative source for obtaining natural value-added compounds.