1. The government today reported a budget that would see a deficit of AU$425 million in 2013-2014.

2. The new forecast indicates the public deficit will fall to 4.3% next year, but to 2.8% by 2017.

3. Germany, which had a deficit of 4.2 percent of GDP in 2003, cut its way to a budget surplus by 2007.

4. Through 11 months of 2013, the trade deficit is 12.3 percent lower than the same period in 2012.

5. Obama did not see attacking the deficit as a priority during his first term.

6. We managed to take the country out of deficit, out of recession.

7. Britain may face a power deficit in early January if temperatures fall below average in the report.

8. An internal struggle centers on that split between defense and deficit hawks.

9. They have a moral deficit in their own movement.

10. He said Democrats would prefer to tack it onto the deficit and call it a stimulus.

11. It predicts a deficit in global production next year.

12. Many economists say the trade deficit is the wrong way to measure winners and losers on trade.

13. Britain has a trade deficit, so a weaker pound is on balance negative.

14. The trade deficit was slightly larger than previously thought.

15. A smaller trade deficit can boost economic growth.