swingeing

How To Use swingeing In A Sentence

• There have been swingeing cuts to forces' budgets. The Sun
• Meanwhile, the popular understanding that the domestic bank bailout led to the swingeing public spending cuts that are now beginning is a red herring. Times, Sunday Times
• Sources say foreign truckers will be expected to pay the charge in advance over the internet and will be hit with swingeing fines for not doing so. The Sun
• If self-regulation fails, toughen the penalties and bring in swingeing damages for clear breaches of privacy. Times, Sunday Times
• Then we were swingeingly taxed on the latter, which was the real point of the exercise.
• Last summer the culture secretary announced swingeing cuts and closures among the 55 public bodies that fall under the remit of the DCMS – which include the Arts Council, Sport England and the British Library – as part of a so-called "bonfire of the quangos". Jeremy Hunt's UK Film Council plan criticised by audit office
• These are countries that are having to implement swingeing austerity measures. Times, Sunday Times
• If you can avoid swingeing spending cuts or big tax increases it is generally better to do so. Times, Sunday Times
• If you can avoid swingeing spending cuts or big tax increases it is generally better to do so. Times, Sunday Times
• But, with a £20 million debt and £25,000 a week being haemorrhaged, despite swingeing player and staff cuts, the matter is not that simple.