Sentence examples for attempting to slash from inspiring English sources

If I get through this evening without attempting to slash my throat on the thinnest bit of my keyboard, then it's going to be a miracle.

Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, is attempting to slash up to £13bn from the welfare budget to pay for radical changes to the system.

Such is the lesson of this stultifying romantic why-dunit from the author of "The Historian," in which a psychiatrist (regrettably) named Marlow takes on the puzzling case of an artist arrested for attempting to slash a painting in the National Gallery of Art.

In Michigan in the US for instance a firm's attempting to slash the cost of carbon fibre for it to be used in wind turbine blades.

With Republican congressmen attempting to slash away at food stamp funding, how will Wal-Mart workers survive if the corporation maintains ruthless practices at home?

Indeed, according to an article by Michael Tomasky in New York magazine, Senators Phil Gramm and Don Nickles attempted to slash aid to New York within hours of Mr. Bush's promise.

Obafemi Martins, Sebastien Bassong, Damien Duff, Habib Beye and Geremi were among those to depart as the Magpies attempted to slash expenditure.

The keeper fails to make firm contact and directs the ball towards Bale, who attempts to slash the ball back over the keeper's head and into the net from 40 yards... but he fails to find the target.

Djanogly is pushing a bill through parliament that will attempt to slash the legal aid budget by £350m as well as shifting part of the costs of bringing "no win, no fee" cases from losing defendants to winning claimants.

Djanogly is pushing through a bill that will attempt to slash the legal aid budget by £350m as well as shift part of the costs of "no win, no fee" cases from losing defendants to winning claimants.

However, that is quite a mouthful to chew, and politicians have generally chosen one or the other to focus on as the first target for reform.The Clinton administration first tried to promote universal coverage ("HillaryCare") and, when that failed, attempted to slash costs through the "managed care" movement, which was hated for restricting patients' choices.