Sentences with phrase «of swingeing»

On top of those swingeing cuts there is a 10 % fee cut from all civil and family fees.

However ministers face a tough battle to achieve this, particularly in an atmosphere of swingeing public sector cuts.

As ever, when talk arises of swingeing cuts, there are perfectly good quangos which do a good job and provide value for money.

Not exact matches

A CVA, a type of insolvency process that allows companies to shut stores and drive down rents, could lead to swingeing cuts to the retailer's 59 - strong store estate and trigger hundreds of job losses.

Would Jeremy Hunt have succeeded in imposing such swingeing cuts upon the NHS if he hadn't depicted various people with varying levels of need — you know, people dying of cancer, that sort of thing - as «burdens»?

Dissenting justice campaigners, legal aid lawyers and those who've witnessed the rot setting in (from swingeing legal aid cuts, curbs to judicial review, an interpreting service in freefall, probation chaos and threats to withdraw Britain from the Human Rights Act) will be highlighting the urgent need to halt the destruction of our justice system and abide by the principles of the medieval charter.

With the major political parties fighting over who is in the best position to make the swingeing cuts necessary to help fix our ailing economy, not enough attention is being paid to the question of how we become profitable again.

«However, this year alone, at least 200,000 applicants will miss out on a university place or a high quality work - based apprenticeship as a result of the Coalition Government's swingeing cuts.

Liberal Democrat insiders point to the fact that Kennedy and his supporters emerged from the SDP, the old Social Democratic breakaway party, but that in seeking to «break the mould» of British politics and merging with the Liberal to become the Liberal Democrats in the 1980s, never in their wildest dreams expected to end up supporting a minority Conservative Government intent on the most swingeing cuts in public spending since the Second World War.

A rise in National Insurance contributions may not be popular but it is necessary — unless a hefty Vat rise is to be put in its place or even bigger swingeing cuts of public services.»

The Pontypridd MP told the Guardian: «I was more than frustrated: I was furious that we were sitting there with a Tory Government that has imposed swingeing cuts on public services, on tax credits, on universal credit, that have smashed women and public sector workers the length and breadth of Britain, and we are taking lectures from them about social justice and economic fairness.

However, swingeing cuts and a massive influx of suspects and offenders will present an unprecedented test of its durability and of the resilience of staff.

Visiting Bristol yesterday as part of Labour's city conversation, to help elect Marvin Rees as city mayor, shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg highlighted the government's swingeing cuts with new build funding for schools slashed by a massive 57 %, against a general 30 % cut in most other spending areas.

Though some of his proposals may prove contentious - for example, swingeing taxes on alcohol to fund treatments for drug addicts - his case for strengthening family structures is compelling.

Plans announced last week to make swingeing cuts to the hours of science taught in the National Curriculum have left the Royal Society and other science and engineering bodies angry and dismayed.

In 1969, Hamilton appeared in a documentary by filmmaker James Scott, in which he discussed the Swingeing London series and his preoccupation with mass media through a selection of his own work.

, British artist Richard Hamilton (born 1922) heralded the British Pop revolution; and with his 1967 Swingeing London series of prints, which depicted the arrest of Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser, Hamilton's art entered the general public consciousness.

Fraser, though, who had hung out with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the late 60s, and is the subject, alongside a handcuffed Mick Jagger, of Richard Hamilton's famous painting, Swingeing London, was one of its bohemian aristocrats.

Hamilton immortalised his dealer in his Pop Art masterpiece Swingeing London 67, a screen print of a famous news image in which Fraser is handcuffed to Mick Jagger inside a police van, following their appearance in court on drugs charges.

Hamilton produced many takes on the press snap of the handcuffed men («Swingeing London,» 1967 - 1973).

His dealer in the 1960s, the ultrahip Robert Fraser (also known as Groovy Bob), drew him into the vortex of the British pop - music world, reflected in the silkscreen - on - canvas series «Swingeing London,» depicting Mick Jagger and Mr. Fraser being driven away by the police after their 1967 drug arrest.

Swingeing London, for example, is the title of seven paintings and many more prints based on a 1967 press photograph of rock star Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser (Hamilton's gallerist at the time) handcuffed together inside a police van.

Fraser is probably best known for being immortalised his dealer in by the late Richard Hamilton in his Pop Art masterpiece Swingeing London 67, a screen print of a famous news image in which Fraser is handcuffed to Mick Jagger inside a police van, following their appearance in court on drugs charges.

From the 1960s Hamilton was represented by Robert Fraser and produced a series of prints entitled «Swingeing London» based on Fraser's arrest, along with Mick Jagger, for possession of drugs.

The event is commemorated by the famous 1968 Richard Hamilton work Swingeing London 67, [6] a collage of contemporary press clippings about the case, and the seminal portrait of Jagger and Fraser handcuffed together also entitled «Swingeing London.».

The reality is that cutting emissions by 80 % as this government has committed itself to doing will require swingeing cuts in all sorts of areas.

In 1819, the government introduced harsh new laws, the «Six Acts», which prohibited possession of weapons by civilians, introduced wide search and seizure powers, restricted public meetings, increased penalties for blasphemy and sedition, and imposed swingeing taxes on pamphlets and periodicals.

This prompts a number of questions; the first question of course is what is the rationale for this swingeing increase?

Swingeing penalties were provided for failure: the value of the book, plus # 5, plus costs, for each book not delivered.

Some, of course will see this as too much whingeing and not enough swingeing.

The recent acquittal of Sean Hoey (see R v Sean Hoey [2007] NICC 49, 20/12/2007) and the swingeing criticisms by Mr Justice Weir of the use of forensic evidence, including low copy number DNA (LCNDNA), in the case, highlight the huge drawbacks if forensic techniques are not used correctly or its results are misinterpreted.