That is especially so for Islamabad, whose military expenditures soak up 26% of the annual budget.
Although he remains a popular leader he has been unable to agree the annual budget with his coalition partners.
The railway budget came two days ahead of the annual budget, which is widely expected to be an austere one.
And for some Sarbanes-Oxley remains an expensive line item in the annual budget, even after many years of experience and refinement.
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Plans for such a bank - the first state-run one of its kind in India - were announced in the annual budget.
India's finance minister has attempted a deft balancing act between the pressures of populism and the imperatives of austerity in the annual budget.
Manager Liam Daish, the Fleet board and the club's accountant revealed that the pair take up almost half the annual budget in wages.
Avoiding unreasonable expansion of the annual budget deficit and national debt, recognizing that both are as destructive as an adventurous stock market game.
Much is usually expected from the annual budget, which, in India, is viewed as the government's mission statement for its economy in the year ahead.
When the ACC voted on the exit fee being three times the annual budget, did the ACC have a valid reason for choosing this figure?
Generally issued a week after the annual budget, the CEA report does not carry the fanfare of the budget request (Congress, after all, does not participate).
Now is the season of the annual budget: it starts in November, and in the tough cases, the budget is not settled until January or February.
Now is the season of the annual budget: it starts in November, and in the tough cases, the is budget not settled until January or February.
McCain's amendment would have to get in line behind dozens of others the Senate's voting on for the annual budget in a ritual known as votorama.
Under EU law, the annual budget - drafted by the European Commission - must be agreed to both by the Parliament and the Council of Ministers, which represents national governments.
The school will state that the exit fee of three times the annual budget is arbitrary and has no rational tie to the amount of damages the ACC will suffer.
In May Stephen Harper, the prime minister, unveiled a new defence strategy called Canada First, with a pledge to increase the annual budget for the military by two-thirds over 20 years.
But, as John Springford has pointed out, from the Centre for European Reform, it's the equivalent of about 0.03% of our GDP - roughly the annual budget of Oxfordshire County Council.
Economic reforms that would upset important vote banks such as farmers are also being held back, even though little progress has been made on many of the proposals set out in the annual budget last February.
The OMB director is an especially influential position because the office helps the president prepare the annual budget that is submitted to Congress, dealing with a range of issues from energy and defense spending to tax policies.
This may not sound onerous, but in places such as Mozambique, where the annual budget for fighting malaria is less than 30 cents a person, any additional bureaucracy could prove to be a big drain on resources.
We need to remember that provisions related to the Fiscal Cliff were enacted so the federal government could start getting control of its deficits which have been running at more than a trillion dollars a year (around 40% of the annual budget).
Most of his work revolved around the annual budget process, a Beacon Hill ritual in which the governor, Republican or Democrat, presents a budget to the Massachusetts legislature, which quickly dismantles the plan and replaces it with its own agenda, overriding any eventual veto attempts by the governor.
The great value of the annual Green Budget from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is that it spells out in black and white the fiscal choices implicit in government policy, some of which will come as a surprise - even, perhaps, to ministers themselves.
Compare that to the 20% of the total annual budget spent on defense, the 20% for Social Security or the 23% to 24% on health and Medicare programs.
The larger fiscal issue here is whether this spending bonanza will become part of the annual "budget baseline" that Congress uses as the new floor when calculating how much to increase spending the following year, and into the future.
The Conference further contends that the Council of Presidents concluded that the sum of three times the annual operating budget was fair and reasonable in light of the potential financial harm resulting from the withdrawal.
President Kennedy's ambitious goal of landing on the moon was achieved in eight years, by a NASA that was free to soar on a budget that rose to 4.4% of the annual federal budget in 1966, according to noted space historian John Logsdon.
Ryan, who chairs the House Budget Committee, has at least fulfilled the legal obligation for annual budget resolutions in the lower chamber, but he's gone far beyond that to provide leadership on the long-term fiscal crisis facing the nation.
The total capex for the first half accounted for 56 percent of the annual capex budget of 25 trillion won planned for 2012.
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