Example sentences of "government spending " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discretionary grants for further education have suffered in the climate of recent economic cuts and local government spending allowances can affect the number and level of grants awarded . |
| 2 | ‘ They lost the government spending argument in the late Seventies and Eighties , now they 're trying the environmental route . ’ |
| 3 | In the UK at present , the public sector is in substantial budget surplus , ( ie the excess of tax receipts over government spending ) . |
| 4 | This has been coupled with policies for a ‘ strong ’ state in defence and law and order , and more centralized control over local government spending and over secondary and higher education than any previous government has attempted . |
| 5 | Similarly , for all the huge majorities claiming to prefer more government spending , even if this involves paying more taxes , what does one make of the finding that voters , when asked which mattered more to themselves and their families , ‘ more public spending or tax cuts ? ’ , a majority preferred the tax cuts ( Marplan , March 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Some 97,000 families will be affected by cuts of up to 40% in civil servants ' pay , part of a World Bank/IMF plan to reduce government spending . |
| 7 | The anti-inflation programmes failed because they hardly cut government spending . |
| 8 | Any attempt to reduce inflation permanently would require a deep cut in government spending and tight control over the money supply . |
| 9 | Further cuts in government spending will be needed to give a promised new boost to industry . |
| 10 | Its current director of studies , David Willets , says the CPS started by assuming that ‘ a lot of the research put out by established think-tanks had a basic bias in favour of increased government spending and an essential belief in the rationality of government . ’ |
| 11 | New plans to cut central — and republican — government spending are to be agreed upon for the second half of the year . |
| 12 | Although servicing the deficit takes up nearly 30% of government spending , fewer than 0.1% of Pakistanis pay direct taxes . |
| 13 | Geoffrey Howe , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Leon Brittan , the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in overall charge of government spending , wanted to look at the longer-term trends and to see how public expenditure could be successfully controlled in the 1980s . |
| 14 | THERE was confusion yesterday about the affect on government spending and borrowing after the Treasury climbdown over the way subsidies from the European Commission are treated . |
| 15 | An emergency government spending package on Tuesday only seemed to encourage the sell-off . |
| 16 | We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending . |
| 17 | At best it would delay the arrival of that strong and vital recovery on which Treasury calculations on government spending and revenue are so delicately balanced . |
| 18 | Its National Recovery Programme , a document of unreconstructed Keynesianism , provides the wrong cure — higher government spending — while fatally ignoring the negative effect that this may have on interest rates . |
| 19 | In the name of balancing government spending , still heading for a deficit this year , social security and unemployment benefits were cut and eligibility requirements tightened . |
| 20 | When Mr Heseltine started reeling off the figures about increased government spending , his questioner began to shout back at him : ‘ I 'm not interested ! |
| 21 | Labour 's response was to blame Mr James Callaghan 's financial orthodoxy — it was his government that introduced cash limits on government spending — and to lurch still further to the Left . |
| 22 | Moreover , as will be shown below , since much of government spending was financed outside the budget , by expanding the money supply , the government continued to run a very large overall deficit . |
| 23 | In 1988 and 1989 , a series of measures with many of the characteristics of a ‘ stabilization ’ package forced more drastic cuts in government spending . |
| 24 | Figure 9.4 Sudan : government spending , selected sectors |
| 25 | In 1975 , just after reorganization had finally been implemented , and in the context of a great deal of criticism about its unexpected costs , Tony Crosland ( Secretary of State for the Environment ) announced that cuts were needed in local government spending : ‘ We have to come to terms with the harsh reality of the situation which we inherited . |
| 26 | Although the immediate context for the ‘ attack ’ on local government was pressure for overall reductions in public spending and local government spending in particular , few of those writing about it have accepted this as a major explanation , partly because the evidence that levels of local government spending are of major significance to the economy are limited , and the arguments that state spending in itself discourages private investment are also weak . |
| 27 | Indeed , the increased concentration of central government on local government spending helped to increase its political profile , locally as well as nationally , at just the time when reorganization had created authorities with major staffing and financial resources , authorities more powerful than the patchwork quilt of councils which they replaced . |
| 28 | Local government spending has fallen significantly since the middle 1970s both as a proportion of state spending and of national income . |
| 29 | From the mid-1970s local government spending was under severe pressure from the centre as more and more complex rules were developed to keep it under control . |
| 30 | A great deal of local government spending is already directed towards the private sector . |