Sentence examples for onerous cuts from inspiring English sources

By making the application process more onerous, cuts were made at the front end as well.

"The only thing good is that we fully fund education, we prevent borrowing, and we avoid the most onerous cuts to the neediest communities".

Instead the mayor ordered many other, less onerous cuts, and persuaded the City Council to pass an 18.5percentt property tax increase to keep the budget in balance.

He now blames them for Portugal's troubles, saying the onerous cuts needed to repay the money threaten to forfeit the welfare of future generations, particularly when it comes to education.

And the budget process was always confusing: onerous cuts would be proposed by the mayor, rejected by the City Council and sometimes patched up with "electricity savings" and other mysterious pots of money.

Officials said that the agreement closely resembled the mayor's executive budget proposal, but offered partial restorations of some of the most onerous cuts, including those that had been planned for centers for the elderly, libraries and child care programs, and that it would probably contain a compromise to save part of the city's recycling program.

Members of Congress are increasingly worried about the lame-duck session after the election, one replete with expiring tax provisions and onerous budget cuts that are increasingly becoming known as the "fiscal cliff".

The move also took some of the glory away from the City Council, whose 51 members face re-election in November and no doubt intended to boast of their successes at saving the city from onerous budget cuts in their campaigns.

Some conservative politicians say this back-and-forth — and the Fed's broader efforts to reduce interest rates — are worsening the government's fiscal problems by making debt seem less onerous and spending cuts seem less necessary.

Egypt last week rejected a $3 billion loan that it had sought from the I.M.F., largely because an angry public did not want to face the fund's onerous requirements to cut spending.

The subsidy is now being withdrawn; $200m of public money leveraged housing investment totalling $2 billion, according to Mr Cardenas.A law in 2012 cut onerous payroll taxes (while raising income tax on the better-off).