Sentences with phrase «spend in a given year»

a Republican member of Congress mentioned that the military pay act, passed by Congress and signed by President Obama at the beginning of the shutdown, is actually a huge percentage of the government's discretionary spending in any given year.

For example, if the financial markets suffer a serious setback or you have to significantly boost spending in a given year, you may want to forgo an inflation increase or even pare back your withdrawals the next couple of years to avoid depleting your nest egg too soon.

And if so, then I should sell some equities every year and buy a new five - year GIC rung) to compensate for the GIC rung that has been spent in any given year, right?

When looking at our model families, we estimate the number of reward points based off their bonus categories, as well as everything else they spend in a given year.

When looking at our model families, we estimate the number of reward points based off their bonus categories, as well as everything else they spend in a given year.

He could tell you what he made and spent in any given year, going back to the 1990s.

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Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

He added that, in Singapore, some indicators of Chinese New Year spending that give him signals for the health of the economy are the demand for gift baskets and hampers and the queues for bakkwa — a sweet barbecued pork jerky in Singapore which sells for about $ 38 (S$ 50) per kilogram, and gets more expensive the closer it gets to the actual holiday.

Confidants report that Bezos spends more time in Washington than in any other city outside of Seattle — ten trips a year, give or take — and for good reason.

«This is a brand new way for people to contribute and give back in a way that's actually needed the most,» says Joe Gebbia, Airbnb's cofounder and chief product officer who has spent much of his time in the past few years leading the initiative.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

The years I spent at home as well as in an alternative career gave me a unique set of skills that, when strategically packaged, enabled me to distinguish myself from my peers.

In any given year, the world - famous jet setter and his assistant Helen Clarke visit some 50 cities, meaning Clarke, once a Virgin flight attendant, spends the majority of her time travel planning.

For, say, a half - hour meeting of six writers and an editor at a company the size of Inc., the $ 189 spent could give clean drinking water to 9 people in Africa for 20 years, or «significantly impact» relief efforts in Haiti.

A legion of Canadian corporations recently acquired new CEOs: Guy Laurence joined Rogers (which owns this magazine) last December, one month after BlackBerry brought in turnaround artist John Chen to fix its ailing smartphone business; at TD Bank, Bharat Masrani spent a year (some might say his entire career) preparing to take over for Ed Clark, while across the street at CIBC, internal candidate Victor Dodig was given just six weeks before he replaced Gerald McCaughey.

Sisters Donna, 43, and Robin Barger, 38, of Four Idle Hands have spent several years selling their «devilishly good» jewelry at craft shows in Los Angeles and say the shows give them exposure to customers, fellow crafters, retailers and media personnel who might not know about their online store.

«The years I spent in the Navy and so many moments remembering that the Navy gave me a wake - up call.

Tesla will have to give some or all of the money back if it fails to spend $ 3.5 billion in the state within 10 years.

People who gave us permission to use their Facebook data were on average younger (48 years vs. 57 years), more educated, more likely to be female (58 % vs. 50 %), and more likely to be unmarried (66 % vs. 71 %), with slightly lower scores on mental health and life satisfaction, significantly more self - reported friends (4.5 vs. 4.0), and less time spent interacting in person with real - world friends.

To give some idea of the stakes involved: There are roughly 80 million Millennials in the United States alone, and each year they spend approximately $ 600 billion.

Some worthwhile contenders include the «Discover it» card, which will double your cash back at the end of the first year, or Citi Double Cash, which gives you 2 percent cash back on everything with no annual fees, or Chase Freedom, which offers a $ 150 bonus if you spend $ 500 in the first three months, Schulz said.

Higher gasoline prices encourage more judicious use of vehicles, which translates into drivers spending less on fuel in a given year.

The harsh winter weather and port delays that damped growth at the start of the year have given way to increases in consumer spending and housing, bolstering Federal Reserve projections that the setback was temporary.

How many years» worth of spending in cash equivalents is going to give you the piece of mind to be able to take some risk with the remainder of your portfolio?

Templeton gave the company a strong portfolio of international equity funds as well as the expertise of emerging markets guru Dr. Mark Mobius, who, during his distinguished career, spent more than 40 years working in emerging markets all over the world.

The «under» spending or lapse for 2010 - 11 and 2011 - 12 was usually large given that the funds earmarked for the various stimulus programs under the Economic Action Plan were not all required in that year.

Now in its third year, the competition has already given one couple the opportunity to spend a month in Cuenca, Ecuador and sent another couple to Granada, Nicaragua.

Given the dramatic drop in prices over the past year, the Bank has spent a lot of time speaking with business leaders to try to gauge precisely how they will react.

This is an extremely large increase, given that the Economic Action Plan stimulus spending was not expected to have a major impact in 2011 - 12 (remember it was originally supposed to be a two - year program only - 2009 - 10 and 2010 - 11) and that departmental / agency budgets were to be frozen in 2011 - 12 at their 2010 - 11 levels.

Given that your life expectancy at 65 is another 20 years for men and 22 for women, spending 10 percent a year will likely result in running out of money.

Additionally, it also gives 2 % cash back on the first $ 25k spent in combined purchases at gas stations and restaurants each year.

Given the increase in hourly wages and the labor income proxy, households may need to pull back on spending in the first three months of the year, which increases the risk of a noticeable negative inventory adjustment in the first quarter.

During the past three years, the company spent about US$ 6.7 billion on debt payments, which reduced its total load from US$ 13.1 billion in 2014 to US$ 6.4 billion — 75 per cent of which is due after 2030, according to an investor presentation slide given earlier this year at the Bank of Montreal investor conference in Hollywood, Florida.

«In a given year, GFI aims to spend the amount it raised during the previous year, which adds more stability and security to the organization.»

As an example, the Citi Hilton Honors Visa Signature Card has a 10,000 - point bonus for spending over $ 1,000 with Hilton in any given year, and $ 20k in total purchases during a year earns Gold status.

To give you an example, ground transportation just in the San Francisco Bay Area is a $ 22 billion spend a year.

The full year spent on recording gave us plenty of time to be extremely open - minded and experimental in the writing process.

Nor does Copleston, who spent half the academic year at the Gregorian university in Rome prior to and during Vatican II, give us any insight into the intellectual ferment that shaped that decisive event in contemporary Catholic history.

And, he said, I'm so glad I never have to look at his face again in a trial - no American money will be spent giving him lawyers, dragging on appeals for years, etc..

We are adult third culture «kids» who have spent all of our developmental years abroad... and then returned to our HOME country, where we must endure the commonplace ignorance and poorly educated adults who lack any interest in foreign policy and base all their opinions on what only goes on in their own backyard... Please give your head a good shake and crack open a book every little now and then!

I had spent a semester at Bethel some years before when I gave the Menno Simons lectures there (The Church Struggle in South Africa), and I remain indebted to that vibrant Mennonite community for introducing me to the writings of John Howard Yoder, with whom I later became well acquainted.

Precisely because my mother died so full of years and full of sanity, giving of herself though her body was entirely, irrevocably spent, she posed the paradox of death in its purest philosophical form.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

There was no explanation given for this dramatic change, but I can't help thinking it was the cumulative effect of so many years spent in close proximity to one of God's outposts of peace.

Having spent the last ten years wrestling through some tough questions related to faith, heaven, hell, and salvation, I really appreciate the personal way in which Bell frames the conversation, asking the very questions I was so afraid to ask all those years and proclaiming the same hope I only dared believe — that God doesn't give up on people, that he is ever - loving, ever - redeeming, ever pursuing.

That her son, the same one who spent a year in an orphanage, would become apastor, a doting husband, and a father who would see four of his own children give their lives to the ministry.

How does our spirituality inform and give meaning to the hours and days and months and years we spend in our occupation?

«Reconciliation is a mixture of event which gives momentum and patient work which brings a change of heart deep down and is almost unknown in our world today, even in places which have achieved some kind of peace... We have to be willing to spend years at this.»

I spent the summer of my sophomore year at an evangelical youth camp in Northern California, a place of timbered fields and boundless blue skies, where, given enough time and stillness and soft - spoken encouragement, one could not help but hear the voice of God.

I spent 35 years trapped in false traditional Orthodoxy that almost led to my demise or at least insanity, until I came to this conclusion: This theology reconciles ALL doctrinal problems; and does not create them as tradition has; it gives us the true message that God wills the ultimate reconciliation of ALL that He created; and gives nothing to Satan; hence does not leave the human universe eternally split between Himself and the Infernal Liar.