While deficit reduction is critical, excessive cuts could slow economic growth at an important time for expansion.

So there are some excessive cuts to the managers, Joe Torre and Bruce Bochy, sitting expressionlessly.

With such excessive cuts, the sale of certain national security components to American allies will be even more necessary to deter emerging threats and maintain American superiority.

He thinks many Wall Street firms used the stock collapse "as an excuse for trimming" and perhaps made some excessive cuts.

They have both spent the last 20 months since the election saying that the Govt was exacerbating the problem by a programme of excessive cuts thereby reducing the tax take.

We can balance the budget without excessive cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, without cutting education or the environment or raising taxes on our hardest-pressed working families.

In doing so, they exposed the false economy of years of excessive cuts in military spending.

These also suggest what the answer should be or indicate the questioner's point of view, e.g. 'Are you against excessive cuts in university funding?'.

If Nick is so bothered about democracy, perhaps he can explain why this government without a mandate is introducing the most excessive cuts to public services that this country has ever known.

The excessive and socially ill-considered budgetary cuts which some Member States are making are creating unemployment, damaging Europe as a location for business and triggering recession.