They may have decided, correctly, that exhortations to tighten belts or pay more taxes are no vote-getters.
It might discourage governments from loosening their belts in good times, as well as encouraging them to tighten their belts in bad times.
But Prince Abdullah has bluntly declared that all Saudis will have to tighten their belts.
Pro tip for legislators looking for places to tighten budgetary belts: Stop sending unemployment benefits to prisoners.
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Every department will feel the impact of these reductions as they cut programs or tighten their belts.
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It is too much to ask people to tighten their belts twice, as it were, figuratively and literally.
The super rich look on all this turmoil, scratch their heads and tighten their belts by one notch.
While some firms are expanding, the downturn in the UK has prompted many others to tighten their belts.
Americans are making hard choices in their budgets, and we've got to tighten our belts in Washington, as well.
The market would punish economies where governments or households borrow recklessly with higher bond yields, prompting them to tighten their belts.
Only education, health care and government showed gains, and this latter growth may not be sustained as states tighten their belts.
If future returns are lower, consumers will need to tighten their belts.
The RCN has long been campaigning about what it sees as a cull of jobs in the NHS as trusts tighten their belts.
But I think we all take seriously -- Republicans and Democrats -- the need to tighten our belts and live within our means.
His comments come as health boards in Wales, which manage NHS services, say that just like councils they also have to tighten their belts.
Not surprisingly, governments are more likely to tighten their belts when budget deficits and interest rates are high at times, in other words, precisely unlike these.
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Zambians may have to tighten their belts, no matter who wins.
That is when governments must act swiftly to tighten their belts.
Rather, it's that there aren't as many desperately poor people in the world as there used to be who tighten their belts when prices go up.
Tim Herbert, senior director of research at the Consumer Electronics Association, says tech accessories should sell well all through the holidays as consumers tighten their belts.
He was critical of company directors, saying too many were prepared to tighten the belts of workers, while boardroom pension schemes continued to guarantee huge payouts.
In 1997, the then prime minister, Romano Prodi, made his compatriots tighten their belts again, to get Italy into the first batch of countries adopting the euro.
Government reports showing gains in both the Producer and Consumer Price indices showed that energy and food costs are causing many consumers to tighten their belts this year.
It was hurt both by general worries over whether academic laboratories will tighten their belts and questions over how quick the uptake of its new DNA sequencer is.
Consumer spending in South Korea rose by 6.5% in the year to the fourth quarter, but Hong Kong's consumers continue to tighten their belts thanks to deflation and rising unemployment.
And they need to act responsibly, tighten their belts, live within their means, just as we in Washington, the executive branch and Congress need to do with our federal situation.
Smaller private companies have continued to tighten their belts.
As a result, many European wineries and their U.S. importers (so far, at least) have chosen to tighten their belts rather than take big price increases to compensate for the sagging dollar.
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Scene Four: Al is pestering us again about how we have to tighten our belts or else the global sea level will rise dramatically and turn our coastal cities into Waterworld.
Given the constraints that we are under, given the need to tighten our belts, given the need to reduce the deficit, this President feels very strongly that it is inappropriate to continue those subsidies.
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