But the MoD said it was "ridiculous" to suggest it was a cost-cutting measure.

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Last fall, she covered up some of the outlets, describing that as a "cost-cutting measure" to save electricity.

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The Sheffield athletics venue, where Olympic champion Jessica Ennis trains, is to be demolished as a council cost-cutting measure.

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Secretary of the FBU in North Yorkshire, Richard Stevens, said it was a "cost-cutting measure" that would lead to further job cuts.

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Last week, Suntech announced the closure of its U.S. factory in Goodyear, Arizona, and the elimination of 43 jobs as a cost-cutting measure.

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As a cost-cutting measure, platooning would allow haulage firms to arrange trucks in tight convoys and eliminate drivers in all but the lead vehicle.

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Labor unions say HIT used to have more than a thousand directly employed workers until the late 1990s, when it began to outsource as a cost-cutting measure.

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Cisco's unified communications systems and TelePresence hardware, for instance, which are designed to facilitate easy remote conferencing, may be seen as a cost-cutting measure to replace expensive travel as fuel prices rise.

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The speaker grille is the only feature that disrupts the flat front -- presumably due to cost constraints, it isn't an integral part of the body like the machined speakers found on the One X and S. A front-facing camera is also conspicuously absent and we assume this was another cost-cutting measure.

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