Sentences with phrase «spending axe»

For one thing, it does not fit with the facts: the enlightened view of prison comes from Clarke, a Tory, while the public spending axe bears the Lib Dem fingerprints of first David Laws and now Danny Alexander as chief secretary.

Not exact matches

«Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.»

I have never ever seen any of the teams you mentioned go on a spending spree and axe 6 or 7 squad players and bring in that many players in a window.

It's pure conjecture but he coaches like he has an axe to grind for spending years on the bench behind more physically gifted QBs.

The story here is about a millionaire government axe - wielder who decided that the best way to spend # 40,000 of public money was on his own relationship who then orchestrated one of the most intensive attacks on the public sector since Thatcher.

Meanwhile we are promised a better NHS and Swedish - style schools with an emergency budget in which the axe will fall on a fragile economy and in ways that will make Swedish levels of spending more distant than ever.

In a lengthy statement released late last night, New York WFP Director Bill Lipton slammed Adler, calling him an «unqualified prosecutor with a political axe to grind» who had spent «three years and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to reinvestigate allegations... that had already been debunked.»

The other parties still largely sidestepped the issues of exactly which spending areas would feel the axe swinging.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: «The foreign secretary says our diplomatic network is «the essential infrastructure» for UK foreign policy but is pressing ahead with a 10 % cut in spending and while expanding posts in some parts of the world he is planning to axe 400 highly experienced Diplomatic Service staff.

Forty - nine percent of voters supporter Paterson's decision to axe almot $ 200 million reappropriated member item spending from the budget, but a majority of New Yorkers statewide — 58 - 38 — opposed his veto of the $ 600 million in additional education spending added by the Legislature in its two - way deal.

David Cameron and George Osborne have been adamant that defence can not escape the spending cut axe, although Liam Fox has been doing his best to blunt it.

Ed Miliband is warning Britons to be braced for the pain of deep spending cuts — and accuses Coalition ministers of being callous in how they wield the axe.

«An orgy of axe - wielding» is the colourful phrase Brendan Barber coined in May to describe the public spending cuts heading our way.

Government spending cuts may become a matter of life and death, it was claimed last night, as it emerged that almost two million people could wait longer for cancer tests and up to 10,000 firefighters face the axe.

Treasury sources said it would be funded through spending cuts elsewhere, but critics questioned the coherence of offering free school meals for all young children, while taking the axe to other universal payments such as child benefit for the better - off.

His plan to axe housing benefit for the under - 25s will have exemptions for special cases, such as domestic violence, but he said: «We are spending nearly # 2 billion on housing benefit for under - 25s — a fortune.

Unsurprisingly the poor benefit more than the rich from things like free education and healthcare, leaving them potentially more vulnerable to cuts — although we await autumn's spending review for more detail on how the axe will fall.

By the time the axe finally fell, the SSC Laboratory had already spent $ 2 billion.

The trio spends the evening stalking the family members around the park, teasing them with various weapons — an axe, knives, and even the truck itself.

Switch Axe - a very cool and versatile weapon that transforms between axe and sword, but you need to spend time learning the combos.

The rest of God of War will be spent exploring its world and solving puzzles, usually involving the axe.

Turns out he and his business partner, Peter, like myself, spent their teenage summers canoe - tripping up in Northern Ontario, where believe me, a good axe is both an indispensable and highly revered piece of kit.

Even if they sell the rental property, Phil and Celeste will need to take an axe to their spending and making ends meet in retirement still won't be guaranteed

As producers take an axe to their spending, supply will grow far more slowly than previously projected, but global capacity is still forecast to expand by 5.2 million barrels per day by 2020, and the toll on production will vary by country.

They always say if you have ten hours to cut down a tree, spend nine hours sharpening your axe.

«Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.»