Examples of belt-tightening

• While inflation points to increasing pension changes based on economic downturns, the strong influence of the unemployment rate highlights the necessity of budgetary belt-tightening.

• Across the board it is a picture of continual belt-tightening and of a very difficult time for research scientists.

• Thus, it requires at this time on this issue a practical demonstration of belt-tightening.

• The private sector continues to suffer from belt-tightening and that trend looks set to continue.

• It rightly regards these not as belt-tightening, which may be justifiable, but as potentially damaging to its present fabric and its future success.

• It follows that in any belt-tightening exercise, larger farms must suffer disproportionately, and the proposals mirror that.

• We may all have to take some individual belt-tightening.

• No matter how good the present housekeeping and belt-tightening in the defence field may be, they will not satisfy the critics.

• In times of general belt-tightening, it looks very bad if politicians authorise further privileges for their own organisations.

• We constantly hear about the result of sacrifices, of belt-tightening and of pulling up our socks.

• I should like to meet a fisherman who has any belt-tightening left to do.

• Expenditure on the assisted places scheme is set to rise inexorably, to provide for increased take-up, revised forecasts of parental contributions and fee increases at participating schools—no belt-tightening there.

• After years of belt-tightening, the hospital's future finally looked brighter.

• During her time as minister she undertook a wide range of belt-tightening measures.

• Several more rounds of belt-tightening followed.