These numbers reflect the fact that IMF advice to countries facing budgetary pressures emphasizes the importance of sustaining expenditures on health and education. The Fund urges that savings be found in unproductive spending meaning excessive military spending, subsidies for the well to do, and inefficient administrative practices.

The Fund urges that savings be found in unproductive spending meaning excessive military spending, subsidies for the well to do, and inefficient administrative practices.

We're trying to cut down expenses.

We're trying to cut down on expenses.

I must cut down expenses.

We need to lower our expenses.

She tried to lower her expenses.

We have to reduce our expenses.

Tom has been trying to lower his expenses.

They will need to reduce their expenditures.

We must try to bring down costs.

They intended to increase the military budget.

We have to cut down our monthly expenses.

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I have to reduce my expenses this month.

Under Putin, Russian military spending has also rebounded.

Its deployed forces are extremely small, accounting for 4 of all military personnel worldwide, versus 14 for the US.

The administration has tried to keep the war s costs from the American public.

It is the only world region where military expenditures are decreasing.

So it emphasizes the need for Argentina to cut budget expenditures.

Of course, because the US economy has grown faster than military spending, the share of GDP dedicated to military expenditures has fallen over the years.

US military spending is equally remarkable when viewed from an international perspective.

Australia's military expenditure is the world's 13th largest.

The IMF s advice to cut government spending and raise taxes will deepen the crisis.

Or public spending all European leaders adamantly want to reduce government spending.

Russian military expenditures have increased by double digit figures in recent years.

Although Chinese officials say that the 2010 military budget has been restrained, and will grow by only 7.5 , China s military expenditures already exceeds those of Japan by 15 .

But no one argues that the US should cut off defense expenditures.

So European states have no choice but to reduce their expenditures, and targeting welfare benefits that represent, on average, half of European public spending is the easiest way to bring immediate fiscal relief.

One budget area can and should be cut military spending.

But the war in Iraq and enormous military expenditures are quite another matter.

But no, their highest priority is to enact more tax cuts that will mainly benefit the rich.

At the same time, the Administration is calling for big increases in military spending.

America needs to rein in its household and fiscal spending, so that it can cut the amount of money that it borrows and owes.

Like the former Soviet Union, the US will have to carry out perestroika and cut defense spending.

One can assume that next year s total spending on military affairs will be even bigger.

The United States spends more on the military than all other countries combined!

That means that every dollar of war spending has in effect been borrowed.

Technically, reducing a deficit is a straightforward matter one must either cut expenditures or raise taxes.

What will we leave as a souvenir, after two billion euros of military spending?

The combined military spending of all NATO members constitutes over 70 percent of the global total.

Overspending countries are now retrenching, owing to the need to reduce their private and public spending, to import less, and to reduce their external deficits and deleverage.

Adjusted for inflation, US military spending has reached its highest level since World War II.

In some countries, lower military expenditures and interest rates has helped to improve a weak fiscal position.

If Germany wants to increase its diplomatic weight, it must increase its defense spending.