Sentence examples for and slashed the size from inspiring English sources

Peter Taylor, chairman of the bank's board and an executive at Lehman Brothers, the Wall Street firm, said the bank had closed offices and slashed the size of its staff from 29 to 14.

Colleagues who had used to kiss Fink's ass now regarded him as a pariah, the guy who had cost the firm millions and slashed the size of their year-end bonuses, the millions of dollars traders earn at the end of each year that are the payoff for their long hours sitting in front of computer screens.

A woman working in a senior position in the armed forces said that everyone in the army had been reminded before the election that Mr. Kostunica had vowed to "professionalize" and slash the size of the army.

But Romney's own economic proposals -- to eliminate certain entitlement programs and slash the size of government and the ranks of public workers, while offering tax relief that includes upper-income Americans -- are virtually toxic for black and Latino voters, Falcón, the NILP analyst, said.

Ecstatic policy makers slashed the size of the military and hoped for a "peace dividend".

He slashed the size of state government during his term and left the state with a large budget surplus".

In 1988, with building already started, the Conservative government slashed the size of the project.

But in the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher slashed the size of the statistics office, she later came to regret it.

This year, officials slashed the size of the annual reception, inviting around 300 guests to one soiree instead of hosting 1,700 over two parties as in the past.

The teams slashed the size of the Army, which is currently shrinking to 490,000, by another 70,000 to 140,000 soldiers.

Facing weak investor demand, a New Jersey agency slashed the size of a debt sale this week to $1.1 billion from $1.8 billion, by nearly 40percentt, according to the WSJ.