Sentence examples for surplus figure from inspiring English sources

The $5.4 trillion surplus figure refers to a 10-year projection made by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in January 2001.

Mr. Snow said the surplus figure was only a projection made before the economy slowed because of the recession, stock market collapse, corporate scandals and Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the newspaper said.

Should Mr. Clinton's surplus figure be adopted, it would severely limit the ability of Republicans to pursue their tax-cutting agenda, and it would make the tax cut being offered by Gov. George W. Bush of Texas in his run for the Republican presidential nomination look excessive.

The surplus figure stood at $8.9bn in the same period last year.

The surplus figure cited by Frank and others has two problems: it's both misleading and paints an incomplete picture of the Golden State's finances.

The revised surplus figures give him and the Democrats virtually no room to operate.

The budget office and the White House have regularly had to revise their surplus figures upward for the last several years.

Ms. Wyman announced the surplus figures as she continued to predict a minimal surplus of just $150,000 for the current fiscal year.

Although the surplus figures give Mr. Bush more room in setting his budget priorities, they are unlikely to end the partisan fighting over whether his tax plan is affordable.

If he stuck to that "prudent" policy of paying down the debt, the new surplus figures suggest that all the debt in public hands could be paid back during the ten-year budget-projection period.

Democratic leaders are using the diminishing surplus figures to bolster their argument that the administration does not have the money to pursue its plan to create private investment accounts in Social Security, to finance its national missile defense or to make good on its pledge to increase spending on education.