1 Protesters, anxious over the spending cuts, urged councillors to think again before wielding the axe.

2 The spending cuts had been rammed through Congress.

3 The problem cannot be solved with spending cuts alone.

4 They're pragmatic about the spending cuts.

5 Spending cuts will put a drag on growth.

6 The public spending cuts will mean the chop for several hospitals.

7 The building plans could be hit by possible spending cuts .

8 The military needs to brace itself for further spending cuts, says McCoy.

9 They are calling for large spending cuts and tax increases.

10 Spending cuts could mean the closure of the village school.

11 Spending cuts would especially affect public administration and, within the social welfare budget, the level of payments on sickness benefit.

12 Spending cuts were announced in November to help the government cope with the impact of the Gulf crisis on oil prices.

13 The alternative would be deep spending cuts or tax increases -- or some combination of the two.

14 That would, of course, require deeper spending cuts in order to balance the budget.

15 Future economic restructuring is likely to include public spending cuts which may also limit further educational expansion.

16 I think it's important to get the spending cut too It's very...it's much more difficult to work on the spending in fact but that's essential.

17 He said it was the "the biggest annual spending cut in history".

18 It was unreasonable to expect the Democrats to associate themselves with spending cuts and tax increases.

19 The committee finally backed down over the issue of spending cuts.

20 The president's plan first came under fire from critics who said he hadn'tincluded enough spending cuts.

21 President Reagan agreed to accept tax increases immediately in exchange for spending cuts to be named later.

22 The criteria for budget deficits and public debt require spending cuts.

23 The new school was never finished, it was a casualty of the recent spending cut.

24 This is an agreement to invest in our country's future while making the largest annual spending cut in our history.

25 This agreement between Democrats and Republicans, on behalf of all Americans, is on a budget that invests in our future while making the largest annual spending cut in our history.

26 Last night's agreement means we can invest in our future while making the largest annual spending cut in our history.

27 This deal cuts spending by $78.5 billion from the President's FY 2011 Budget request -- the largest annual spending cut in our history.

28 This may be the solution for no new tax and no spending cut!

29 A sharper-than-expected slowdown, however, would increase pressure on Mr. Sarkozy's government to announce large, unpopular spending cut.

30 Neil Rutledge of consultants Grant Thornton said: "This week's spending cut announcement was the inevitable culmination of the vast growth in public debt.