| They don't rebut him by arguing either that cutbacks in the safety net will not happen or even that they're a good thing. |
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| Instead, as Samuelson notes, much of the increase was due to layoffs, bankruptcies and cutbacks. |
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| This means it will be difficult for the salary raise to go through without some departments having to make other cutbacks. |
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| Sadly, government cutbacks mean dear old Eddie, who's pushing 40, is out of a job. |
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| It is a pointless plan and a waste of the taxpayers ' money in a time of government cutbacks. |
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| Later, the judge ruled that, constitutionally, the cutbacks could not come via proration. |
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| Those who lose a job or face a financial setback fall through the frayed safety net of welfare and other social service cutbacks. |
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| Almost half of the stimulus simply offsets the contractionary effect of cutbacks at the state level. |
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| The fiscal cliff could mean cutbacks and layoffs in fields like medical research. |
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| For instance, there has been some rallying of women's groups together in response to the government cutbacks. |
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| According to the Killarney based TD, vicious cutbacks are now being imposed in the school building programme. |
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| Unemployment markedly increased, as did poverty, substandard housing, and cutbacks in basic governmental services. |
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| If by the end of fiscal 2002 sales have outstripped the cutbacks in compensation, LaMagna will distribute the difference as retroactive raises. |
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| It would arrest the cutbacks in service facilities argued for on the basis of regional headcounts and infrastuctural potentials. |
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| This policy of keeping inventories low will deny consumers a buffer against any production cutbacks that the cartel may make if prices weaken. |
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| It is a pointless plan and a waste of the taxpayers' money in a time of government cutbacks. |
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| The council argues that this is necessary as part of an unavoidable programme of cutbacks. |
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| The judges are looking for snaps and big cutbacks, all the showy point-scoring maneuvers of professional surfing today. |
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| Budget cutbacks have forced students to pay to play football and be in the marching band. |
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| More cutbacks are inevitable as steel production shifts to other countries and the US finds its comparative advantage elsewhere. |
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| They charge that the cutbacks are so severe that the firm will be left floundering once the market recovers. |
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| It will be a sad day for a Guiseley postmistress when her business closes in a month due to Post Office cutbacks. |
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| Phoenix are now heavily dependent on the unions to deliver further cutbacks and speed-ups. |
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| Other companies that previously raised money have made cutbacks to reduce costs. |
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| The project is going ahead in spite of worldwide cutbacks just announced by the group. |
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| Because direct taxes will not rise, any shortfall will be clawed back through cutbacks. |
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| This type of expenditure can only go ahead if cutbacks are made elsewhere, according to the report. |
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| He expects Deutsche Bank, Dresdner and Commerzbank to be among those with the biggest cutbacks. |
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| On top of this Canberrans also enjoyed watching cutbacks to everything except cutbacks. |
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| After decades of defence cutbacks these resources have been severely curtailed. |
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| It is estimated that state cutbacks may reduce economic growth by at least one-half percent. |
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| In general, cutbacks do not hit the huge bureaucracy involved in the provision of state services. |
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| Asking residents for their views on where cutbacks and savings could be made is only part of the process, he stresses. |
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| The sources blamed the cutbacks on an explosion of feuding among prisoners. |
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| It blamed the closure of the company on cutbacks in the health and hotel sectors. |
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| The one-day strike was to protest the wave of budget cutbacks that have degraded medical care. |
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| The cutbacks would mark a halt to the massive expansion within the civil service and local authorities since devolution. |
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| However, the councils, fire and police chiefs claim their budgets involve cutbacks and economising as they battle to keep rises to a minimum. |
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| Although suffering from hunger because of a prolonged drought and government cutbacks in their rations, the Sioux were not taking up arms. |
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| There was much annoyance at the discontinuance of the first-time house buyers grant and the cutbacks in the Community Enterprise Schemes. |
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| Yet, in order to remain solvent, many museums face cutbacks and, in some instances, the dispersal of part of their collections. |
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| In a time of government cutbacks, as a tax-payer I am unconvinced that we need to fund more programs of dubious value. |
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| Five years ago Selby police station's cells were downgraded due to cutbacks, and prisoners could only spend six hours there. |
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| St Mary's College at present is akin to a sinking ship, and this nth round of cutbacks and strikes merely serves to raise the tide ever higher. |
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| Patients, their families and relatives will also be asked to pressurise local politicians to force the Government to halt the cutbacks. |
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| I'll say I'm sorry for being such a blockhead, and you'll apologize for nearly killing us with cutbacks. |
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| But facing yet more budget cutbacks, the journal, which has been in financial peril since 1984, may not survive. |
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| Government cutbacks and legal tripwires have conspired to see the town park overgrown and uncared for. |
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| News of cutbacks, such as the shortfall in medical card allocations, does not enthuse voters. |
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| The loss of double-digit stock gains slowed consumer spending from its boom times of the late 1990s, leading to excess inventories and cutbacks in factory output. |
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| During the cutbacks there was resentment towards the mzungus, or whites. |
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| When there are constant cutbacks in personnel, we mustn't be shy about stating that the government has contributed to this as well. |
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| Lucas will talk about public expenditure and the need to avoid cutbacks that will further depress the economy and hurt the poor most. |
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| Consequently, it has been through a variety of changes, including staff reductions, home delivery cutbacks and a switch of format. |
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| The cutbacks will result in an undetermined number of lay-offs. |
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| I hope so, as it is clearly morally corrupt to give company heads millions of pounds when they have overseen a period of business resulting in job losses and cutbacks. |
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| Government ministers face a frosty reception at this year's Special Olympics following cutbacks in promised funding for physical and sensory disability services. |
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| Indeed, the downside to public spending cutbacks is depressed demand and job losses as well as reduced public services and continued inadequate infrastructure. |
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| As this prospect has dimmed, however, fears have grown that as trade rivalries step up the transnationals will see their British operations as prime areas for cutbacks. |
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| It was balancing the books on the backs of the provinces and the municipalities, cutbacks in health care funding, cutbacks to the municipalities. |
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| Even Americans who have jobs are pinching pennies amid the constant news of cutbacks and layoffs. |
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| Constant cutbacks make it almost impossible to do a good job and thus contribute to job-related stress. |
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| With all the privatization, cutbacks and closing of public institutions, there is not even a federal building in a small town in rural Manitoba. |
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| This process was sustained, as concerns of investors rose on fears that U. S. lawmakers will make big cutbacks on tax credits for new homebuyers. |
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| That is also why I object strongly to excessive cutbacks in the agricultural budget, particularly in export contributions. |
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| Canadians are expressing grave concern that with the coming cutbacks to foreign aid next year, the new commitment will fall by the wayside. |
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| The constant threat of reductions and cutbacks makes agencies hunker down and wait for better days. |
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| We know in uncertain times it is workers who bear the brunt of the cutbacks in programs and services. |
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| Since buying their way back to power with the people's own money, they have scourged the country with a series of random and ill-thought out cutbacks. |
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| It's time to stomp out the notion that social programs promote laziness and that they are generally the cause of budget cutbacks. |
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| We cannot produce a serious plan for strengthening the field offices if the only measures on the cards are cutbacks, closures and withdrawal. |
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| We can't read or watch the news these days without a story about the teetering economy, declining sales and corporate cutbacks. |
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| Without that commitment, the Ministry of Defence is one of the government departments most vulnerable to cutbacks. |
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| In its 1995 budget, the Federal Government announced major cutbacks to social transfers to the provinces and territorial governments. |
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| In addition in many cases of bankruptcy the pension plan is not fully funded and workers and retirees face cutbacks in their pensions. |
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| This burst of activity from the public sector will nearly perfectly compensate for cutbacks in private sector investment. |
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| As part of this initiative, the company will also be looking at job cutbacks. |
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| However, stakeholders were angry over cutbacks to both the research budget and function. |
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| Every day, companies announce cutbacks in production, layoffs of workers or even complete closure. |
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| Other provinces include this type of care under home care or other health programs, which exposes it to budget cutbacks. |
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| Now the same deputies were giving out about cutbacks in administration. |
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| Others announced layoffs and cutbacks and every manner of cancer and blight. |
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| This used to be home to the Princess of Wales regiment though most of the soldiers moved out along ago due to budgetary cutbacks. |
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| The immediate prospect of financial cutbacks weighs on his mind. |
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| Bachmann eventually relented and scrubbed the VA cutbacks from her proposal. |
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| Under our current nitwit sequester policy, government cutbacks continued to drag down growth. |
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| Antiterrorism initiatives and airline cutbacks are making it ever harder to be a road warrior, so business owners are increasingly taking to the skies in their own aircraft. |
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| When we combine reduced air travel with other forms of cutbacks in oil consumption, we will help to reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil and conserve the planet. |
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| Scotland's beleaguered industrial sector is still enduring a combination of business failures and cutbacks on capital expenditure, according to new figures due out tomorrow. |
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| In our determination to build a deeply ingrained sales culture, which is absolutely essential in boosting revenues, we are focusing our cutbacks on areas that will neither inconvenience customers nor disrupt our sales force. |
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| We will not support radical cutbacks within the first pillar. |
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| The closure of three mines in 2000 alone and the cutbacks in production already planned for 2001 and 2002 will considerably worsen the social situations in the regions concerned. |
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| It could prove to be very difficult going at first, however, especially at the poorest levels of society, due to cutbacks in the national budget and weaker domestic demand. |
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| I can imagine it now: an army of hundreds of Kyoto-crats scurrying around the federal bureaucracy and around the country implementing Chrétien's Kyoto cutbacks. |
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| Justice Minister Alan Shatter needs to urgently rethink the cutbacks to avoid a major gangland crisis. |
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| But it seems like there is no one in Government who has the appetite for implementing the cutbacks. |
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| As a result, the hospitals that remained open had to absorb this growth in volume despite cutbacks in the number of gurneys and beds in the region. |
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| Due to federal government budgetary cutbacks and shifting priorities, the public art purchase program and the visual arts advisory committee ceased to exist more than 20 years ago. |
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| Within this new business-like work environment, cutbacks, lack of resources and perceived decline in quality of care are taking its toll on workers. |
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| The Harris years were marked with the same kinds of cutbacks, the same kind of refusal to acknowledge what women face when they are in violent home situations. |
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| With government cutbacks and demands for services increasing, many Alzheimer Society organizations are already struggling to maintain their present services. |
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| There will be no employee cutbacks because of the takeover. |
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| The European rail network that is so important to all of us, and particularly to our country, will suffer from the swingeing cutbacks we have made in that domain. |
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| Joan and her Cabinet colleagues need to reverse these cutbacks before it's too late. |
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| Also, the company's exposure to further sales and production cutbacks in the domestic automotive industry remains a key risk factor. |
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| With program and training cutbacks and so forth, foreign countries are seducing students with lower tuitions, better tax environments and better training tools. |
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| Those concessions include multi-year wage freezes, two-tier wages, pension reductions, cuts in retiree health care, forced overtime and cuts in overtime pay, vacation cutbacks and more. |
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| This is pure hypocrisy, as is using the Canada jet to fly to a photo op in London, Ontario, at a doughnut chain to announce freezes, cutbacks and rollbacks. |
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| The government wants the community to look after people, but when you're in an area like ours which has been so hard hit by cutbacks and downturns in the economy, it's very difficult to take care of others. |
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| Mr. Speaker, do you think that CN employees are happy to have accepted cutbacks in their working conditions when they leaf through certain magazines and read things such as what I will now mention? |
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| This could have as a consequence the likely cancellation of further investment, a decline in innovation, the erosion of the competitive position of integrated industry, cutbacks and closures. |
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| Democrats say they're willing to go over the so-called fiscal cliff and allow all the Bush-era tax cuts to expire and, if they can't unlink them, drastic automatic spending cutbacks to take effect. |
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| Before the Falklands War, Defence Secretary John Nott had advocated and initiated a series of cutbacks to the Navy. |
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| As unemployment rose, consumers' expenditures declined, leading to further cutbacks in production. |
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| Thousands of workers are being axed at car plants across the UK as plummetting sales force production cutbacks. |
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| More detailed cutbacks will be announced in a new budget next month. |
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| Plummeting global demand and declining prices for forest, mineral and energy commodities and products have resulted in significant production cutbacks and extensive job losses. |
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| The series of cutbacks in aerospace programmes seems to have tailed off in 1999, but there are still no signs as yet, in 2000, of any significant upturn in this sector. |
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| This has inhibited demand, but has not discouraged cutbacks in production. |
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| As water tables fall and surface water variability increases, harvest cutbacks could occur simultaneously in many countries, creating potentially unmanageable food scarcity. |
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| I realize that in a time of cutbacks there isn't a lot of money, but at least it would start the ball rolling, at least for some people who aren't going to be able to get a job after the injuries they've sustained. |
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| It is being built to replace the two existing stations at Halesowen and Cradley Heath which closed because of cutbacks. |
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| Savings are achieved through armaments cooperation, cutbacks in dispensable capabilities, standardisation, task sharing, functional worksharing arrangements and role specialisation. |
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| Bitumen is not classified as dangerous to the environment but bitumen cutbacks contain naphtha and could therefore need to be given a risk phrase. |
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| Little new money would be available for health care, and with cutbacks in federal transfers, the province could anticipate having even less to spend. |
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| Recent cutbacks to school physical education programs, which include physical activity instruction and intramural programs, should be of concern to parents. |
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| We have also ensured that the EU budget for health and consumer protection was not subject to the swingeing cutbacks planned by the Heads of State or Government. |
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| Looking at current policy, one can see that the cutbacks that are made in all areas of society do not stoke up demand, but, on the contrary, stifle it still further. |
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| Despite the cutbacks made to traditional sectors, Portsmouth still remained an attractive place for industry. |
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| Why is it the cutbacks start at the sharp end, I trust that also in the proposals, will be the cutback in administration and senior officers, as they will not be needed. |
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| And Faye Burton, founder of the Rural Policing Liaison Group, has blamed police cutbacks and a loss of specialist officers for the worrying spike in dog and cockfighting. |
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| In October 2010, he and 100 other leading artists signed an open letter to the Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt protesting against cutbacks in the arts. |
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| Last month West Midlands Police announced cutbacks which will see 27 of its 41 front desks closing across the force area, putting about 90 jobs at risk. |
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| Mr O Caolain also claimed people were becoming more politicised over the economic crisis and would no longer accept multi-billion euro cutbacks on public services. |
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| In spite of budget cutbacks, companies are turning to pay TV because air time is much cheaper than on regular broadcast stations and cable watchers have deeper pockets. |
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| The cutbacks were imposed at the Snath Comer factory in Gweedore's Derrybeg industrial estate after consultations between the mangement and trade union officials. |
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| I think I'm all out of analysis on cutbacks, except to note that the company with the worst stock-price record in recent weeks is mentioned above. |
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