Sentence examples for this tough budget from inspiring English sources

Instead, this tough budget has slowed recovery, helping to fuel unrest.

"That helps in this tough budget environment".

During the presidential campaign, he pledged to put away childish things and tackle the tough budget issues.

The 3 percent goal is important, since Spain, even after the tough budget it announced Thursday, foresees a deficit of 4.5 percent in 2012.

If the government wanted to wean the press from public support generally, that might have been understandable in these tough budget times.

A spokesman for Caerphilly council said: "We are going to have to make some very difficult decisions in the wake of this extremely tough budget announcement.

This produced a "tough" budget, which somehow managed to avoid imposing any significant pain on the kinds of people who make up commissions of audit.

On 25 August he told reporters, "We made some tough decisions because we realized that this was a tough budget year".

He said: "This is a tough budget, but I believe it is a fair one, even though it cannot be without pain".

B.G.: This is a tough budget period, and we have to continue to adequately fund basic and applied research and improve our STEM workforce.

Reacting to the decision to award the council a 0.3% funding increase, its leader David Jones said: "This will be at tough budget but the cabinet are determined to move to fair provision across Powys.