Sentence examples for harsh spending from inspiring English sources

Harsh spending cuts have slashed government jobs by the thousands and cut funding to police.

Harsh spending cuts and tax rises have been imposed again and again as conditions for further economic support.

They refused to support a plan to raise the limit — and impose overly harsh spending cuts — put forward by Speaker John Boehner.

Again, this compares favorably with the savings from many of the harsh spending cuts being proposed in the name of fiscal responsibility.

The government's hope has been that private firms will step into the breach as the public sector sheds jobs because of the harsh spending cuts it has announced.

With Portugal facing two years of recession and record unemployment, Mr Passos Coelho is committed to realising both harsh spending cuts and economic growth.

Here's Sweden versus the United States, from Eurostat: Somebody has been practicing harsh spending-side austerity — and it's not Sweden.

The public deficit is expected to reach 2.7percentt of gross domestic product this year, and economists worry that without harsher spending cuts, France will exceed the 3percentt limit of the European Union next year.

Syriza hardliners were furious that Tsipras signed the deal that demands even harsher spending cuts and tax hikes than those he had vowed to abolish when he was elected in January.

It is bound to include tax rises and far harsher spending cuts than this year's £6 billion.The budget will be preceded by a crucial report from the new Office for Budget Responsibility OBRR), which will set out independent economic and fiscal forecasts (see article).

It is expected to contain some of the harshest spending cuts in years as the newly elected conservative government led by Prime Minister Tony Abbott attempts to balance the nation's books.