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By the end of the decade, President Clinton and the Republicans who ran Congress for most of his presidency had waged fierce budget battles every year but somehow managed to balance the unbalanceable budget.

Joe Scarborough: The Loyal Opposition 2009

Shriram had known how much he wished to balance the unbalanceable.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

Now, it is my worry and anxiety as the months and years go by, as the armament race increases in velocity, that the minds of statesmen and governors are less inclined to look upon the normal channels of commerce and more inclined to look upon the abnormal, extraordinary measures which ere necessary to get armaments going, or to balance budgets which are inherently unbalanceable.

Problems of the British Empire 1937

He was to bring order out of chaos - reconcile discrepancies - supply whole pages of ledgers - balance unbalanceable accounts - understand the unintelligible - collect debts involved in all mazes of legal defences, or slumbering cozily in chancery - to bring all sorts of agents to all sorts of settlements - to compromise bad debts - disencumber clogged property - to keep up a correspondence like that of the Pension

The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches, 1853

With capital escaping, the budget unbalanceable, and no one wanting to hold marks, the inevitable happened; and by the middle of November 1931 a dollar would buy 250 paper marks, and a pound sterling 1,040.

Mises Dailies 2009

Numerous state will cease to function as tax receipts decline, buddgets become increasingly unbalanceable and unemployment rises.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009