Sentence examples for making sweeping cuts from inspiring English sources

All of these county councils are also making sweeping cuts to their funding of bus services, in order to save money.

The UK's second-largest regional publisher, which under new chief executive Ashley Highfield is making sweeping cuts and changes to its portfolio, saw a £16.5m pre tax profit in 2010 fall to a £143.8m loss last year.

The House-passed Republican budget plan would address the debt problem by making sweeping cuts to the federal budget, but it is a provision that would overhaul Medicare and other federal entitlement programs for future seniors that has drawn the greatest political controversy — a point underscored by the fact that Wednesday's vote was called not by Senate Republicans, but by Democratic leaders.

In 2007, the Journal-Constitution made sweeping cuts to its arts-writing staff.

2 48 p.m. | Updated The National Endowment for the Arts made sweeping cuts in its support of established PBS shows in the 2012 Arts in Media grants, which were announced Wednesday morning.

But Dr. Gesme said, "When Medicare makes sweeping cuts, private insurers often follow suit, assuming that the government must be right".

For example, the bill includes language that would allow officials appointed by the governor to make sweeping cuts in health coverage for low-income families without having to go through the normal legislative process.

WASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans are joining to oppose one of the most important features of President Obama's new deficit reduction plan, a powerful independent board that could make sweeping cuts in the growth of Medicare spending.

The National Endowment for the Arts made sweeping cuts in its support of established PBS shows on Wednesday, and for the first time awarded significant grants to an array of gaming, mobile and Web-based projects.

The Obama administration said Tuesday that instead of cutting benefits or increasing co-payments, Congress should increase the power of an independent agency, created by the new health care law, to make sweeping cuts in the growth of Medicare spending.

In the 2003 fiscal year, 28 states made sweeping cuts across agencies -- 2.5percentt in Michigan, 3.4percentt in West Virginia and 5percentt in Hawaii -- while 22 used reserve funds, 17 fired employees and 10 put workers on furlough.