The phrase "as slashes for" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a function or purpose, but without additional context, it is unclear when to use it.
Example: "The symbols were used as slashes for separating different sections in the document."
Alternatives: "as dividers for" or "as separators for".
As well as slashing costs for his own businesses, the new proposals will also cut the alternative minimum tax (AMT), a tax designed to stop the super-wealthy from taking so many tax deductions that they avoid paying anything.
If the Obama administration does not bend, and a political compromise cannot be reached, House Republicans have other tools available to punish Holder, such as slashing funding for the Justice Department and even impeachment.
Though Marky Ramone, formerly a drummer for the Ramones, looked as well preserved as Slash, things had changed for him.
Support for both large scale and domestic solar power is being slashed, as are subsidies for biomass and biogas projects.
His talk was salted with well-turned jokes and lines meant to be received as slashing, but he also criticized Bush for abandoning the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and obliterating the federal budget surplus and underfunding education and having no real health plan — and you could feel the audience's interest die a little with every specific.
The world's most populous country is taking increasingly drastic action, such as slashing Beijing's new sales quota for cars by 40%.
Community colleges, which for years have been a stepping stone to four-year colleges and universities for many students, are now out of reach for many as states slash budgets for higher education and tuition rates soar.
And as the economy continues years of sputtering and as governments slash services for the most vulnerable citizens, it is not at all difficult to imagine groups like Mr. Bey's -- which preyed on the weak and desperate, offering them food, shelter, work and false religion -- continuing to find recruits malleable enough to be molded into killers.
The unemployment rate jumped yet again as employers slashed jobs for the seventh consecutive month, the Labor Department said yesterday.
The company Ebbers founded also floated him a $10 million "retention bonus" last year even as it slashed bonuses for the rest of its executives.
