Sentence examples for radical spending cuts from inspiring English sources

The UK's fiscal position is unsustainable and, without radical spending cuts, we could indeed be heading for a Greek-style denouement.

But the two houses of Congress are still miles apart.Key senators, such as Pete Domenici, patently dislike the House proposal, a sign that when the proposals go to conference the result will be less radical spending cuts.

She agreed to give Greece four weeks to institute radical spending cuts even though many analysts are doubtful the Greek government will be able to bring down its deficit sufficiently.

"If Washington is having a very difficult time getting its fiscal house in order, as a household, I either expect radical spending cuts that will affect me or radical tax increases that are going to affect me," Mr. Hubbard said.

Although both Nicolas Sarkozy, the Gaullist incumbent, and François Hollande, his Socialist rival, have embraced deficit reduction, each vowing to bring France's budget deficit down to 3% of GDP next year, neither is promising to do so by making radical spending cuts.Both presidential front-runners instead rely heavily on balancing the books through tax increases.

Deficit projections have already decreased by $200 billion for this year alone, so why do Republicans keep lunging for ever-more radical spending cuts like they were corn dogs at a barbecue?

But each should be coupling radical tax reform with radical spending reform (severe spending cuts).

The new government, led by David Cameron, embarked on a radical programme of spending cuts.Joyful and triumphantIn other big elections, Dilma Rousseff won the presidency in Brazil, the first woman to do so.

George Papandreou, the embattled Greek prime minister, needed to win a midnight vote of confidence in his reshuffled socialist government before attempting an even bigger challenge – getting the parliament in Athens to back a radical programme of spending cuts, tax increases, and a mass assets sell-off by the end of the month.

In order to secure an immediate €12bn lifeline and then EU agreement on a second bailout running to more than €100bn over three years, Papandreou now has to persuade parliament to back a radical programme of spending cuts, tax increases, and a mass assets sell-off by the end of next week.

He means the coalition's brutal public spending cuts and radical redefinition of the role of the state.