Sentence examples for surplus figures from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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.

As the Group of 20 leaders prepare to meet in Seoul on Thursday and Friday, China's latest trade surplus figures are likely to give more ammunition to critics who say the country doesn't do enough to encourage domestic consumption.

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.

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.

With the province's budget deficit transformed into a surplus, unemployment figures declining, and the word "renaissance" again being heard around Montreal, Mr Bouchard told his party's convention last weekend that secession would once more be at the top of his government's agenda.