Sentence examples for trim expenditures from inspiring English sources

Instead, the Assembly decreed $7 billion in spending cuts that would require the elimination of thousands of state jobs and trim expenditures for schools and universities, prisons and other as-yet-unspecified state functions.

While that kind of data remains largely anecdotal, the evidence is enough to keep corporations spending on cybersecurity technology even as they trim expenditures on other information technology.

As we move towards our March 18th deadline for the current continuing resolution, I hope that my colleagues across the aisle will listen to what experts across the country are telling them and compromise on a budget that will help trim expenditures while maintaining our investments in our future.

Weaker growth will result in public borrowing exceeding the £118bn pencilled in for the 2009-10 financial year in the PBR and the fresh fiscal boost in the budget will be accompanied by plans to raise taxes or trim expenditure once the crisis is past.

There is widespread confidence that the government, which has rigorously applied a structural surplus rule since 2001, will comply with the budget and, if revenue falls below target, will trim expenditure correspondingly.

"The government has put VAT on salt, flour, cooking oil, bread and milk, exorbitant taxes that hurt the poor, while the government has not trimmed expenditure," said Hajat.

The initiative falls into a more structured attempt by the Italian government to trim state expenditures and administrative costs.

Political and military analysts said even some of the new Republicans in the House might find it difficult to trim government expenditures without including the Pentagon's base budget, which the White House would like to increase to $550 billion in fiscal 2012.

And it is always hard to trim tax expenditures such as the mortgage interest deduction and state and local tax preferences – especially now, at a moment when the economy is still recovering from a housing-led downturn and state and local governments still face significant deficits that need to be closed.

Mr. Zetsche and his top deputy, Wolfgang Bernhard, Chrysler's chief operating officer, have trimmed capital expenditures by 28percentt but have tried to increase the number of vehicles in development.

Although its report did not track state appropriations in the current fiscal year, a separate survey by the National Conference of State Legislatures this summer found that total state spending on higher education dropped 2.2percentthis yearar, with some states trimming their expenditures by 9percentt or more.