Sentence examples for difficult savings from inspiring English sources

It may be that the reality of difficult savings ahead is dawning.

In a letter to May, Burnham said: "Given the events in Paris last weekend we repeat our belief that it would be unwise to ask the police to deliver further difficult savings above 5% over the next five years".

Another member of the influential Commons committee, the Tory MP Justin Tomlinson, said MPs were growing "increasingly concerned about the complete lack of control over severance payments at a time when the BBC is having to make very difficult savings to frontline productions".

I say this, not because I doubt that all the medics involved were doing thrilling, difficult, life-saving work for which they all should be proud, but because something's gone wrong when we rely on TV fiction – Casualty, say – to tell it like it is, while TV fact such as this tells it like it isn't.

Other small business owners I know, however, have a more difficult time-saving money when it comes to their businesses.

Shortly after he'd dropped this bomb, Erik had to leave the office to help out a veterinarian surgeon friend of his with a difficult, life-saving operation on a cute kitten, but not before recommending that the best way to listen to the record was to "close your eyes and imagine the vast, beautiful universe engulfing your every sense.

"Air support illustrates how the police service is working hard to make savings in difficult financial times.

Private companies have promised to generate profits year in, year out, particularly if they are backed by private-equity companies; but after the first wave of rationalisation it often becomes more difficult to squeeze savings out of schools and hospitals.The Finns have one of the world's most successful educational systems (as measured by the PISA tests) without so much as a nod to Friedman.

If you have a service experiencing increasing levels of demand, it's very difficult to make savings".

Smallholders face poverty traps and subsistence consumption constraints, making it difficult to mobilize savings to cope with weather shocks.

The Rt Rev McKinnel said he accepted that councils across the country were facing difficult choices about savings and "nobody wants to make such cuts".