The phrase "acted to slash" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an action taken to reduce or cut something, often in a financial or operational context.
Example: "The company acted to slash its budget in response to the economic downturn."
Alternatives: "moved to cut" or "took steps to reduce".
But the government acted to slash power-plant emissions anyway, citing the principle of Vorsorge, or "forecaring". Soon, Vorsorgeprinzip -- the forecaring, or precautionary, principle -- became an axiom in German environmental law.
In November, De León acted to slash a third of Newsom's staff, notifying Newsom that two Senate employees who had been on loan to the lieutenant governor's office were being reassigned.
As if to stress his independence from his supposed patrons, Mr Chubais made it one of his first acts to slash subsidies to Norilsk Nickel, a firm controlled by Mr Potanin's banking group.No doubt Mr Nemtsov will want to bring in his own protégés--some, perhaps, from the social democratic Yabloko faction, led by Grigory Yavlinsky, that backed Mr Nemtsov in Nizhny Novgorod.
(This week's White House rollout of the RAISE Act to slash the amount of immigration to the US was the latest legislative manifestation of Trump and the right wing's xenophobia).
A Republican-controlled White House and Congress are ready to act together to slash taxes and boost spending.
He knew he had to act fast to slash costs and prune dozens of phones based on dead-end technology that simply were not profitable.
We have to act now to slash greenhouse gas emissions if we are to have a chance to keep the increase in temperatures to manageable levels," Mr Jarraud said.
We have to act NOW to slash greenhouse gasemissions if we are to have a chance to keep the increase in temperatures to manageable levels," WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said in a statement.
November: the MPC acted unanimously again to slash interest rates by an astonishing 1.5%, the biggest cut in 27 years, bringing the rate to its lowest level since 1955.
But they still don't have a replacement plan that would protect people with pre-existing conditions or do any of the other things the Affordable Care Act did to slash the rate of uninsured Americans.
We don't have any more time to posture". He was referring to a House Republican plan, called the "Cut, Cap and Balance Act," which aims to slash federal spending, impose a cap on future outlays and amend the Constitution to require a balanced budget — without increasing revenue.
