Sentence examples for windfall revenues from inspiring English sources

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.

Even in the cold war, rarely was neutral territory so colourful or crowded.All this toing and froing has brought Djibouti windfall revenues.

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.

Cuts in income tax left public finances too dependent on windfall revenues from VAT on new homes, capital-gains tax and stamp duty.

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.

So far, the oil-windfall revenues in its stabilisation fund have not been used except to pay off debt, which the president seems to regard as an affront to Russia's pride.

Ireland and Spain relied on windfall property revenues.