How to Use fisc in a Sentence

fisc

noun
  • Until recently the focus in Springfield has been on shoring up the state fisc.
    Allysia Finley, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The duty of securing a healthy public fisc belongs to the public as a whole — not just those who are struggling to get by.
    Christina Martin, National Review, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Federal employees and anyone else who chooses to steal from the public fisc will be held accountable.
    Dan Raby, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The public fisc mattered, but so did the welfare of criminals and crime victims, of addicts and addicts’ families.
    Gabriel Rossman, National Review, 23 July 2019
  • Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has a plan to burden state and local fiscs as well.
    Editorial Board, Washington Post, 9 July 2026
  • That’s debatable, however, since faster price rises are likely to trigger higher interest rates that would strain Rome’s fisc.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Over the next few decades, Germany’s inexorably aging population will place ever greater demands on the national fisc.
    Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • Whatever his motives, the greater shame is that his vote keeps the edifice of ObamaCare in place with all of its harm to patients, the health-care system and the national fisc.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 July 2017
  • Some three million will have been buying coverage on the individual market, meaning the rule should save the fisc money on increasingly expensive tax credits.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2018
  • Inflation was crushed immediately, lev interest rates plunged, a hard budget constraint was put on Bulgaria’s fisc, and the economy boomed.
    Steve H. Hanke, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2018
  • Corporate tax directors are tasked with maximizing shareholder value, not protecting the public fisc.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • One of the more peculiar aspects of the United States is the dominance of graduates of public institutions in those regions ostensibly most hostile to generous disbursement from the public fisc.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2011
  • So Democrats have a natural credibility challenge in presenting themselves as guardians of the public fisc, even among those taxpayers who have forgotten the spending surge that followed the inauguration of the last Democratic President.
    James Freeman, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019

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