The charge is thrown at the coalition every day: cuts, far from being a reasonable response to our national circumstances (if not the only possible one) are a tool being used deliberately by the cruel and immoral to wreck society.
The cuts, far from the draconian measures many people had feared, are spread over many county departments and rely heavily on less onerous measures like a hiring freeze, the loss of jobs through attrition and incentive packages to get county employees to quit their jobs.
In a 1981 editorial, she deplored the "grim and highly responsible series of trade-offs" most women in medicine were forced to make in those days, but the figure she cut was far from grim.
Last year, the prime minister negotiated the first ever real-terms cut... Far from being a lone voice, we were working with like-minded countries like Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark".
Don't cut too far away from the backbone, since you want to preserve as much meat as possible in the fillet.
But her life, so tragically and cruelly cut short, was far from ordinary.
They were cut short not far from the border by a surprise flank attack in which much of the tribe was killed.
Cut once, and far from assured an N.F.L. roster spot, Dearth grabbed hold of the jersey, before another team could yank it back.
But the tax cuts are far from dead.
That, in turn, implies that interest-rate cuts are far from over.
This time around, support for the proposed tax cuts is far from universal on Wall Street.
