Sentence examples for targets for spending from inspiring English sources

It said the government, bolstered by foreign aid, had exceeded targets for spending on health, education and antipoverty programs.

Some easy targets for spending reductions were missed.

The nonbinding blueprint sets targets for spending and tax cuts for next year.

There is no economic or social argument to justify these arbitrary targets for spending and debt, especially when the cost of debt service, given low interest rates and the average 14-year term of our government debt, has rarely been lower over the past 300 years.

It is not a surrender to big government to recognize that cutting the top tax rate was a better idea in Reagan's era than in ours, or that making the tax code more regressive is a counterproductive response to recent trends in working class life, or that some federal programs are better targets for spending cuts and caps than others.

Shopping and dining are two great passions of increasingly well-off Shanghainese, as well as targets for spending by visitors.

The UK is one of only five countries that meets or exceeds the UN target for spending 0.7% of national income on development assistance.

Mr Farage said Ukip would meet the Nato target for spending two per cent of GDP on defence, arguing that it was a form of insurance.

The trust's target for spending on temporary staff for April 2012 was £484,000, but it spent £860,000.

The UK has committed to meet the internationally agreed target for spending on overseas aid.

It's time for the government to lift support for the arts, rather than viewing it as an easy target for spending cuts.