Sentence examples for trim deficit from inspiring English sources

"To Trim Deficit, Mayor Seeks Increased Fees for Recreation" (news article, Dec. 8) highlights the contradiction in doubling the price for public exercise facilities in the midst of a campaign to prevent obesity.

Investors worry that looming elections in several countries, including Japan and Britain, could derail efforts to trim deficits.

If Congress and the Obama Administration don't trim deficits, he says, "we will get to the point where credit is much more expensive in the U.S. than it ever has been in the past".

Republicans are hoping to cut spending by more than Congress and the White House already have over the last two years, and further trim deficits and the debt.

have signaled a willingness to cut Social Security if doing so would be part of some grand bargain to trim deficits, but Democrats across the board have ruled out such cuts in the current budget debate.

Combined with a commitment to trim deficits further in coming years through yet-to-be-determined measures, that could get close to the $4 trillion in savings that experts say is needed to keep the debt from overwhelming the economy.

For states that are serious about trimming deficits, out-of-control prison costs are a good place to start cutting.

Mr. Juncker, who is also prime minister of Luxembourg, said the growth forecasts would show if the European economy would become more stable in 2011, making it possible to start trimming deficits.

Eric Manlow scored on a deflection at 8 30 to trim the deficit to a goal.

Four plays later, Hartley drilled a 44-yard field goal to further trim the deficit.

They would do precious little to actually trim the deficit and cut federal spending.