Sentence examples similar to braced budget from inspiring English sources

One of the worrying aspects of the survey is the fact that even though public sector bodies have been braced for budget cuts for almost a year, many of the managers in the study appear under-prepared.

Local law enforcement agencies are bracing for budget cuts and police layoffs.

Susan Behrens Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Community Boards, Their Neighborhoods' Voice To the Editor: As was noted in "Not Quite Passing the Hat, but Already Feeling the Pain" (March 30), community boards are bracing for budget cuts.

Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency EPAareare bracing for budget cuts that would hinder traditional in-house science as well as extramural grants.

GCC nations are bracing for budget deficits.

Contribute with Guardian Witness With George Osborne's spending review due imminently, the public sector is braced for further budget cuts.

With the army already cut back to 82,000, the lowest level since the Boer war, and the MoD braced for more budget cuts to below 2% of GDP after the election, ministers are going to have to make tough calls.

-Judith Jamison, 54, artistic director and choreographer, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, in Time Behind the Masks FRANCE HAS FREED capital movements, sold off swathes of state industry, em-braced budget austerity and made a strong franc a pillar of its policies be-cause the opening of European borders and the push for a single European currency have required such changes.

In October, Mr. Pataki's budget officials braced themselves for a steep drop-off in income tax in December because the securities industry had projected Wall Street bonuses would be about a third less than in the previous year.

"Defense contractors are bracing for big budget cuts in 2011 and 2012," said Mr. Toy of AlixPartners.

That leaves a considerable hole in the coffers at exactly the moment when arts organisations are bracing themselves for budget cuts of between 25-40%.