Sentence examples for threat of cuts from inspiring English sources

"We need to halt the present short-sighted policy of cutting 455 police officers and if elected mayor I will stop Boris Johnson's threat of cuts to the 630 safer neighbourhood police teams.

"The threat of cuts has to be addressed.

The continuing threat of cuts could worsen the problem, the association said.

They have been more interested in discussing the "big society" than the threat of cuts.

The Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham has accused the government of frightening people with the threat of cuts.

Defence remains an important issue for the Tory right, which has become uneasy about the threat of cuts and the Lib Dems' influence, not least over Trident.

There were threats of cuts when Congress balked at raising the debt limit in 2011, when a so-called super-committee tried and failed to reach a budget deal, and late last year when the nation faced the "fiscal cliff".

Probably not, as the In Battalions report showed that funding cuts and the threat of funding cuts lead to caution and less commissioning on the part of arts organisations.

Do not be initimidated by threats of "cut-backs," "hard times," etc.

Economists, and politicians, are divided in how they see the likely outcome of this proposal for a deficit-cutting committee, backed by the threat of automatic cuts.

City Council officials played down the threat of further cuts, noting that past mayors have often called for potential cuts in the summer as a sort of exercise.