The sword ban is less swingeing, since exceptions will be made for martial-arts clubs and collectors.
If the cuts are swingeing, then the prize for inventors everywhere will be reduced.
The job losses could be lower if more swingeing cuts in pay and perks were made.
The Local Government Association, which represents English local authorities, insisted councils were trying to protect elderly care despite swingeing cuts.
In late December officials introduced swingeing new measures to ease the traffic.
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Both firms have had enough of sweeping strategic redirections and swingeing cut-backs.
Mr Panetta gave his warning as austerity programmes bite on both sides of the Atlantic, and Nato members contemplate swingeing cuts to their defence spending.
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France and Germany flouted the pact, ignoring threats of swingeing fines.
Mr Schwarzenegger's solution, which he will describe in detail later this week, combines swingeing spending cuts (even to normally inviolable schools) and equally swingeing tax increases.
The civilian state got a further boost on June 26th, when a court stripped the army of swingeing powers of arrest that it had recently granted itself.
By the same token, many of the Republicans' fiercest deficit hawks say they will not allow the debt ceiling to be raised unless they secure swingeing budget cuts.
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But Mr Brown will cite Tory opposition as proof of lack of seriousness about the public finances, or of a sordid zeal for more swingeing cuts in public services.
Mr Barbosa will focus his attention on Brazil's consumer-credit markets, which have historically been held back by swingeing interest rates and wide bank spreads but are now expanding rapidly.
Much of the recovery is thanks to swingeing spending cuts and tax hikes, often imposed at the behest of outsiders such as the IMF, and sometimes with scant regard for legality or democratic niceties.
By imposing taxes on the most expensive insurance plans and planning swingeing cuts in Medicare, the state health scheme for the elderly, the CBO says the bill will do all this without increasing the government deficit.
Although it is doubtful whether all Mr Clinton's new spending initiatives make sense, this proposed path for discretionary spending at least does not imply swingeing (and short-sighted) cuts in an area that has probably been squeezed enough.
Although respected personally, small island states that feel threatened by climate change are understood to have resisted the appointment of someone from the BASIC bloc of countries (Brazil, China, India and South Africa), which argued against swingeing carbon curbs at December's UN summit in Copenhagen.
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