Sentence examples for windfall revenue from inspiring English sources
High oil prices this summer left Iraq with windfall revenue, but it is unlikely that the money will be spent anytime soon, even as many Iraqis go without electricity, clean water and other basic services.
(G.D.P. grew at an annual rate of 7.6percentt in the second quarter, fueled in part by windfall revenue from Mexican oil exports, but Merrill Lynch's and J. P. Morgan's economists are predicting Mexico's growth rate will slow to 4percentt in 2001).
The results have been disastrous: the housing bubble; rising prices; overseas food riots; growing and destabilizing inflation in the numerous countries that have tied their currency to the dollar; and windfall revenue for Iran and Venezuela, the two biggest supporters of global terrorism.
Oil exports, whose windfall revenues once buoyed Syria's bloated public sector in times of crisis, have plummeted.
This generated windfall revenues which, combined with cheap credit after Spain joined the euro, provided all tiers of government with the resources to fulfil their dreams.
It can draw on some $11 billion in a sovereign fund, most of it saved by Ms Bachelet's government from windfall revenues from copper exports.
He did so primarily by channeling windfall revenues from the oil boom to pay off the colossal debts accumulated by his predecessors, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.
Even in the cold war, rarely was neutral territory so colourful or crowded.All this toing and froing has brought Djibouti windfall revenues.
Cuts in income tax left public finances too dependent on windfall revenues from VAT on new homes, capital-gains tax and stamp duty.
Others should follow Narendra Modi's lead.The axis of dieselFor those governments that have used the windfall revenues from higher prices to run aggressive foreign policies, by contrast, things could get uncomfortable.
A Californian telecoms company, for instance, thought it would lose heavily when a 1994 earthquake destroyed uninsured telephone masts along the San Andreas fault line but it found these losses were outweighed by windfall revenues, as worried families started calling relatives.
