Eager to take a two-sets-to-none lead after scrambling out of a 4-5 deficit in the first, Chang converted the set with a madcap flourish.

The Tories have not learnt that you cannot cut your way out of a deficit, he says.

After scrambling out of a 3-1 first-set deficit and breaking Testud for 7-5, Williams wasted no time asserting herself in the second set.

During his first four years he pulled Ohio out of a $1.5 billion deficit and was a national leader in welfare reform and eliminating unfunded mandates.

At the very time we needed strategic support for getting out of a deficit, a lot of funders wouldn't support us.

So he wasn't around to help them out of a 24-0 deficit after the first quarter.

Williams dragged the Yankees out of a late-inning deficit Wednesday, in a game of many swings - and many mood swings.

In 1 hour 13 minutes against Peschke, she racked up 30 unforced errors and had to squirm out of a 5-3 deficit in the first set.

Combined with cost cuts in other areas (primarily reducing the amount paid to the choir), this pulled the synagogue out of a four-year financial deficit.

You can't cut your way out of a deficit - as Osborne's so expertly demonstrated.