Sentence examples for sweeping budget cuts from inspiring English sources

The federal government raised taxes in January, and sweeping budget cuts were initiated in March.

Sweeping budget cuts have led to layoffs and worsened working conditions.

But as part of sweeping budget cuts, the legislature also eliminated health care coverage for thousands of legal immigrants.

The University of Florida has faced sweeping budget cuts from the State Legislature totaling 25 percent over three years.

During the 1980's, an ambitious budget minister named Carlos Salinas de Gortari dutifully carried out sweeping budget cuts ordered by the president of the time.

"Scientists Hope Obama Continues Support for Basic Research" (Nov. 13) correctly characterized the wait-and-see attitude of many scientists and engineers as sweeping budget cuts threaten research and development — the engine of economic progress.

And will you give the new director sweeping budget authority?

Despite sweeping US budget cuts under the sequestration, Nasa still hopes for an annual budget of $17.7bn – which will be increasingly targeted on the Mars mission.

And she shows no sign of slowing down or of tiring of her position — particularly as she watches sweeping state budget cuts and a newly anointed Republican supermajority gut the programs she spent decades fighting to build.

As sweeping government budget cuts affect historic sites and national parks, the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has set aside about $28 million for events, advertising and exhibitions to commemorate the war.

And the sequester a sweeping federal budget cut that kicked off in March is starting to hurt the programmes that tackle homelessness.