If the budget is rejected, the district will remain on an austerity budget with cuts mandated by the state.

(This was far more modest than even the gentle cuts mandated under Kyoto.)

Any sort of tax increase with recession threatening is likely to be considered economically and politically inadvisable, making it very hard to see how the cuts mandated by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings legislation will be possible to achieve.

Most Capitol Hill observers agree, however, that a negotiated settlement is preferable to the automatic cuts mandated by the Gramm-Rudman budget-reduction act.

Online reported that Dane's death and departure in the premiere was a result of budgetary cuts, mandated by ABC.

New York and other states this week began the first cuts mandated by the new Federal welfare law, starting to drop some legal immigrants from the food stamps program.

Many cuts mandated by the new budget will be phased in over coming weeks or months, including layoffs.

August 7, 2012: Obama signed the Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012, which directed his administration to detail in 30 days how they plan to implement the automatic cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act.

And many lawmakers are highly critical of a controversial budget plan drafted by a State Department steering committee last month to administer the cuts mandated by Congress.

Still another shows the across-the-board cuts mandated by the budget law if no agreement can be reached to reduce the deficit to $100 billion.