Sentence examples for trimming state from inspiring English sources

The state's experience has particular relevance now, as many politicians have promised to ease budget problems by trimming state agencies.

Mr. Allen is campaigning on his state record of cutting taxes and reducing crime, trimming state agencies and attracting new business.

He featured a pink piggy bank on his Web site and invited them to click on it and submit their ideas for trimming state expenses.

The potential for loan payments to "crowd out" other budget priorities, as Mr. Corzine put it, came into sharp focus this year, with a historic plunge in revenues from state income tax returns resulting in his trimming state spending by about 10percentt.

Oklahoma's governor this year has proposed trimming state agency budgets by 5%, while also suggesting a tax cut.

Despite these efforts, when the state Legislature this past year had to choose between trimming state services or paying cities and counties the funds that were owed them from the vehicle license fee reduction, legislators told us to wait three years for the promised payment.

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

The country's economic travails are more global in nature; one of its most pressing imperatives, to trim state spending, was less urgent in Mrs Thatcher's day.

He also hopes to trim state spending on health-care services by 0.3% and on higher education by 6%, saving another $171m or so.

Mr Darling also set out plans to trim the budget for public sector pay and pensions by £4.4bn by 2012-13, bringing the total amount the Government can trim state spending to more than £20bn.

The government aims to trim state payrolls by 170,000 this year and add 240,000 private-sector jobs, a tough goal given that just 24,000 Cubans took out licenses for self-employment in the first five months of the year.