swingeing taxation.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

David Cameron did say that he wouldn't make 'swingeing' cuts in the first year of his term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference

No incoming government can make "swingeing" or "particularly extensive" cuts in public spending during its first year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

David Cameron has promised that a Conservative government would not make "swingeing" cuts and Alistair Darling has insisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

On Sunday, Mr Cameron said there would be cuts within the year if the Conservatives gained power, but these would not be "swingeing".    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

David Cameron has more recently appeared to row back from Osborne's harshest cost-cutting rhetoric, saying there would be no "swingeing" cuts this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The TUC urged ministers to reconsider the "swingeing" cuts to public spending and focus instead on other ways to reduce the deficit, such as the suggested.    From Wordnik.com.  [icScotland] Reference

Mr Cameron decided to change course in February when he assured voters that cuts in the first year would not be 'particularly extensive' and certainly not 'swingeing'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

By February this year, as polls showed that voters were taking fright at the idea of early cuts, Cameron toned down the rhetoric as he said that cuts would not be "swingeing".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

It's therefore a delight to see some of the countrys - nay, the world's - top economists come out in favour of deficit spending, and against immediate and "swingeing" cuts, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

"swingeing" cuts in public services, and suggested he could use "green taxes", road charging.    From Wordnik.com.  [icScotland] Reference

There's your area for swingeing cuts, right there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Dent's TV OD] Reference

So there are already cries for swingeing penalties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan is not the target; deal fixers are] Reference

The first was his secret plan for swingeing tax cuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labour's unfunded spending commitments] Reference

For instance, swingeing tax rises or cuts in public spending?.    From Wordnik.com.  [VAT at 20%: A very deliberate choice | Editorial] Reference

For they live in a swingeing wine-press, fifty steps up to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

Indeed, by this time, the public must have associated swingeing denunciations of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference

So, even these swingeing cuts only take usback to where were were lessa than a decade ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Cut Spending and Frame the Argument] Reference

I came back, all the time, to the swingeing truth, that I wasn't there now because I was afraid to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whip Hand]

These swingeing measures are for the sake of preventing more borrowing, not paying off existing debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

It's also got more than enough sleazebags for the Republicans to be able to exact a swingeing revenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

We saw a swingeing bunch of grapes that are gathered and squeezed in that country, brought in by them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

More sensational is the swingeing 25% real-terms cut in public spending (other than health) over five years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Budget 2010: If Osborne's gamble pays off, it is Thatcherism's finest hour] Reference

It beggars belief that there are not going to be swingeing cuts and all sorts of alteration to taxes to pay for that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

"One member of the shadow cabinet, whose department faces swingeing cuts, whispers confidently that he will be spared.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

But are we really so threatened in the UK, that we must uniquely introduce the most swingeing and illiberal precautions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geldof on Liberty 4th July 2008 - Hull] Reference

Are you not deterred at all from travelling on a train without a ticket by the fact that detection brings a swingeing fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

Brown knows better than anyone that the UK that a needs-based funds allocation would mean swingeing cuts for his motherland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Clearly this is so for Tim Butcher of the Telegraph, for whom breaching the Egyptian wall ended Israel's swingeing blockade.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The jolly yeoman cut a rasher of bacon, which Cicely soon broiled, and her father added a swingeing tankard of his best ale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley] Reference

The catchpole, having made shift to get down a swingeing sneaker of Breton wine, said to Basche, Pray, sir, what do you mean?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

Over 99% of businesses, most SMEs, the businesses on whom almost 60% of UK jobs depend, will be hit by this swingeing tax rise.    From Wordnik.com.  [If You Thought This Was a Tax Cutting Budget, Think Again] Reference

Universities' umbrella body says forcing the government to abandon planned rises could mean 'swingeing cuts to student numbers'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuition fees: vice-chancellors split over call to back increases] Reference

Union leader Sally Hunt says there are already strikes at individual universities in response to swingeing redundancies and cuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lecturers' union warns of national strike] Reference

We shall feast like kings anon; here is to be swingeing doings; we have a wedding in the house; here, drink and cheer up; pull away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

For now, Siemens 'businesses are exposed to industrial capital expenditure, which typically experiences swingeing cuts in hard times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Siemens' Long Term View] Reference

He was a diminutive, stooping, palsied, plump, gorbellied old fellow, with a swingeing pair of stiff-standing lugs of his own, a sharp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

The image registers Mr. Hamilton's indignation that Mr. Fraser served a swingeing six months 'sentence for "innocently pleading guilty.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Hamilton, 88 and Going Strong] Reference

Despite the swingeing nature of the plans, which will be introduced in the 7 December budget, Cowen said they would reinforce confidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish austerity plan to save €15bn] Reference

The government will want to encourage public sector workers to bid to run their own operations when the expected swingeing cuts are unveiled next month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handing businesses over to their staff could make everyone happy – even the government] Reference