A group of broadcasters had objected to the new royalties, saying that they would force a drastic cutback in services.

The party has been forced to make drastic cutbacks after expected donations failed to materialise.

The average maximum loan-to-value ratio slipped from 85% to 83%, compared with more drastic cutbacks for first-time buyers.

In a time of drastic cutbacks, spending money on anything can set off a deafening sound and fury.

Many institutions were forced to make drastic cutbacks.

With the funding cutbacks and the decline of public confidence, we all have to make sacrifices.

However, inpatient units are now facing severe funding cutbacks.

I understand from the recent provincial budget that we can anticipate further funding cutbacks to public libraries.

Major opera companies have been better able to weather the funding cutbacks, because they can afford to hire star singers which draw substantial audiences.

These advances were then sabotaged by funding cutbacks throughout the 1920s that left the navy poorly maintained.

But much of the away due to government cutbacks in spending on sea defences.

Last year more than 370 were switched off in government cutbacks.

Government cutbacks and concerns about access to finance saw sentiment in the construction industry turn increasingly negative during the third quarter.

She first hit headlines in 2013, claiming government cutbacks could leave her and her giant brood homeless.

Despite government cutbacks, some interpreters are using a scam called 'stacking' to overcharge the police.

Most industries are having much more severe cutbacks.

These arguments are leading more and more people to question whether aid - paid for out of our taxed income at a time of severe cutbacks - really works.

What it did not say was that due to severe cutbacks many areas no longer have adequate bus services so people have to drive everywhere.

Policing techniques are undoubtedly improving, but the impact of the financial crisis of 2008 has led to severe cutbacks in law enforcement's ability to assert its authority throughout its jurisdiction.

This created a budget crisis in the county which threatened to close local schools and create severe cutbacks in county services.

They buck the pattern of spending cutbacks by families across almost every other area in the last five tough years.

Public spending cutbacks and falling incomes are driving down gross domestic product, with a 5.5 per cent contraction recorded in the first quarter.

Coincidentally, many of the countries at risk are those suffering public spending cutbacks that have eaten into local rescue service budgets.

The council argued that it needed to spend 1.7 million to update the system on top of the running costs, which was unaffordable given spending cutbacks.

With spending cutbacks at both the federal and state level, fiscal policy will pack a lot less oomph than last year, tax cuts or no tax cuts.