Sentence examples for true deficit from inspiring English sources

The new government said the true deficit was likely to be 12.7% of GDP.

GEORGE PACKER: Ford and, a little less so, Carter were the last true deficit hawks in the White House.

Book-cooking by the outgoing government means that the true deficit is higher than official forecasts—at perhaps 7-8% of GDP (including the states).

My sense is that there are very few true deficit hawks; the vast majority of those who claim that title are really just using the deficit to pursue the goal of a more unequal society.

And that suffering will only be made worse if the nation embarks on a misguided crash program of deficit reduction that in the short term will undermine any recovery, and in the long term will make true deficit reduction that much harder to achieve.

This study was designed to clarify whether poor performance of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on motor timing tasks reflects a true deficit in the temporal organization of motor output or is due to a lack of intrinsic motivation.

True deficits should be supplemented, whereas decreases as adaptive responses could potentially be hindered or even be made harmful by supplementation, the more so, because potentially dangerous effects of FA supplementation have not been systematically studied thus far.

However, such conclusions must be tempered by the fact that reports of NK cell defects in patients with autoimmune diseases have been based almost exclusively on studies of peripheral blood samples, which would not distinguish between true deficits and sequestration of NK cells in target tissues.

Although these reports raise the possibility that autoimmunity may be associated with NK cell numeric or functional deficiencies, such conclusions must be tempered by the fact that these observations have been based primarily on studies of peripheral blood samples that cannot distinguish between true deficits and sequestration of NK cells in target tissues.

It is also possible that at least some patients with semantic dementia may develop a true apperceptive deficit for the representation of complex auditory objects, perhaps analogous to deficits of perceptual face analysis previously documented in some patients with progressive prosopagnosia and more posterior extension of the pathological process within the temporal lobe (Joubert et al., 2003).

However, in a recent report the IMF argued that the true total deficit is closer to 7% of GDP once you add in the state governments' deficits and various off-budget items (such as bonds that the government issues to oil companies to compensate them for holding down prices).