Indeed, those cuts have been large enough to outpace increases in state and local taxation.
But claims have never been large enough to require government help.
He said the blast would have been large enough "to take out" a heavily armored Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
Ross Mirkarimi, a former city supervisor who asked for the controller's audit, said many of the agency's grants had not been large enough to be effective.
Previous surveys have never been large enough to see more than a few continents, leaving open the possibility that larger maps would uncover still larger structures.
But Siberia has also been large enough to provide safe haven for free men and women, notably the Cossacks, ethnic Russians unbound by the claims of serfdom.
But the captain of the Japanese ship, Hisao Onishi, speaking in Japanese, told reporters separately that the waves had not been large enough to toss seawater into lifeboats.
Although there had been smaller quakes in the area in the ensuing 50 years, Mr. Lin said, none of them had been large enough to relieve the strain, which kept building up as the two plates converged.
What the gulf spill has taught us is that no matter how bad the disaster (and the environmental impact), the potential consequences have never been large enough to dissuade BP from placing profits ahead of prudence.
At the very top of the income spectrum, many workers have continued to receive raises that outpace inflation, and the gains have been large enough to keep average income and consumer spending rising.
The trials to date have not been large enough to measure whether ranolazine makes a difference in patient survival, although there were fewer deaths among those taking the drug than taking the placebo.
