(1) Some had feared the committee would ax spending even more.

(2) Thirty workers are facing the ax in the assembly department

(3) The candidates all promised to ax government spending

(4) In the fireplace is a wood axe with the word ÔÇÿburningÔÇÖ inscribed on the handle.

(5) They know how to bang riffs out of their axes well, but it tends to get buried beneath the mediocrity and predictability of their songwriting.

(6) They kept on hitting one man with an axe handle and it was unbearable.

(7) Thirty staff are facing the axe at the Royal Infirmary

(8) The Chancellor warned the cabinet to axe public spending

(9) Perhaps the answer to the budget shortfall may lie in reviewing the number of higher paid managers who need to be employed, rather than axing frontline staff?

(10) ÔÇÿLow prices still talkÔǪ to lure customers we axed gift-set prices by up to 20 percent,ÔÇÖ she said.

(11) Since the announcement in September 2002 that 400 jobs were to be axed over the next two years, more than 340 staff have come forward for voluntary redundancy.

(12) At one point, all 10 multi-instrumentalists set down their axes in the middle of a piece and sang in gentle, unearthly harmony.

(13) I got hit over the head with the axe handle and ended up in hospital.

(14) Elsewhere, One.Tel - part of the giant Centrica group - has axed the cost of its broadband activation fee until the end of March.

(15) Long-running soap Brookside was last night facing the axe after Channel 4 announced it was moving it from the peak-time evening slot.

(16) Swinging it open, Uncle Noah burst into the room, looking for all the world like a firefighter who had just axed his way in.

(17) An axe blade

(18) Residents and traders from Bitterne Park staged the protest at Bitterne Park Triangle, where the post office is one of ten across the city facing the axe .

(19) The depot, which employs about 250 staff, has been axed as part of a dramatic restructuring of Royal Mail's postal service in an effort to reduce daily losses of Ôö¼├║1.5m.

(20) Jack Nicholson's crazed cry of ÔÇÿHere's JohnnyÔÇÖ as he axes his way through a door in pursuit of his wife has been named the most terrifying screen moment of all time.