As they look to reshape the university, the trustees face campuses that have been squeezed sharply in recent years by successive cuts in state support.

In the end, with victory by anti-Carlists, the wars resulted in successive cuts of the wide autonomy of Biscay and the other provinces.

Unfortunately, however, as each successive cut is applied, it becomes harder to bear.

Instead in Britain, in recent years, the Territorial Army has been the sacrificial cow for successive cuts.

The excavator is then lifted and moved along the trench guide walls to continue the trench with successive cuts as needed.

Reading played five seasons at this level, peaking at a final position of 6th, but by the time Tewkesbury left in 1999 problems were already apparent, as successive financial cuts had depleted the squad.

After missing three successive cuts in the early spring, she lost in the first round of the Sybase Match Play Championship, and did not have a top twenty finish through May.

It didn't help when Westminster enforced successive cuts in pay as part of the public-services' sacrifice in relation to the national economic crisis of 1931 and 1932.

The successive budgetary cuts and the restructuring of the state sector have particularly threatened jobs in which women are primarily employed.

Over several years the number of TA signal regiments was reduced following successive cuts by the MOD.