The Territory balanced its budget with a surplus and had done so over the last number of years.

Give, and it will be given to you good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.

Give, and it shall be given unto you good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

The 2005 Budget projected a 10 million decrease in Government spending and envisaged a surplus of 20 million.

Acknowledging the considerable efforts of some Member States to collect, secure and destroy voluntarily those man portable air defence systems declared to be surplus by the competent national authority,

Encourages all interested States to assess, on a voluntary basis, whether, in conformity with their legitimate security needs, parts of their stockpiles of conventional ammunition should be considered to be in surplus

Appeals to all interested States to assess whether, in conformity with their legitimate security needs, parts of their stockpiles of conventional ammunition, explosive materials and detonating devices should be considered to be in surplus

Acknowledging the considerable efforts of some Member States to collect, secure and destroy voluntarily those man portable air defence systems declared to be surplus by the competent national authority,

This outcome is in contrast to the results from the past few years, which showed an excess of expenditure over income resulting in the reduction of the fund balance and consequently raised concerns regarding the future of the Institute.

There is a general view that financial and corporate restructuring has been largely completed in South East Asia, while budget deficits have narrowed or, as in Thailand, the budget has remained in surplus.

In accordance with a contingency plan to guarantee food security, the World Food Programme (WFP), in cooperation with the Government, has begun to put in place strategic food reserves supplied by local purchase of rice from surplus production areas.

Developing countries built up a current account surplus of 2 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2004 and increased their accumulation of reserves (in particular, sub Saharan Africa, by 49.7 per cent, and East Asia and the Pacific, by 42 per cent).

The overall trade balance for August 2012 was a surplus of almost 390 million for the first six months of 2012, a huge figure compared with that of 2007, which reached only 5.7 million the surplus had risen by about 425 million compared to 2006.

Although the draft article appeared to be simply an application of the principle already stated in draft article 3, and therefore superfluous, the provision bore independent repetition in order to do away with any risk of presuming that a treaty that had given rise to an armed conflict was null and void.