Sentence examples for surplus big from inspiring English sources

As Greece's chief creditors, the EU and the IMF want Greece to adopt flexible labour markets, immediate restrictions on early retirement and a budget surplus big enough to accommodate some debt repayments.

When Wal-Mart opened a supercenter along Highway 183 in this Dallas suburb in the mid-1990's, its existing discount store about one mile to the east became one of the thousands of surplus big-box stores across the country that have had to be recycled or demolished.

"While Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans in Wisconsin have put people back to work and turned deficits into surpluses, big labor and Democrats orchestrated a recall election for selfish political retribution," Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee who led Republicans' efforts in Wisconsin in last year's election, said in a statement issued early Wednesday.

The realization was that it didn't matter if the U.S. was the biggest surplus or biggest debtor nation.

"It's highly unusual for a country to have a budget surplus as big as ours and a trade deficit this big," Mr. Clinton said.

We have a surplus, a big one.

If China's trade surplus is big and inward direct investment is strong, the central bank might have to buy a lot of dollars.

There is much debate over keeping the tax cut small enough to preserve the budget surplus or big enough initially to stimulate a weak economy.

There is clearly scope for compromise in terms of allowing Greece to run a much smaller primary surplus (the bigger the surplus, the bigger the fiscal contraction) and by further extending loans; the trickier points to resolve are on the extent of Greek economic reforms.

Mr. Bush's surplus is bigger, $586 billion in five years.

When you add it all up, he's spent the entire surplus on bigger government.