Sentence examples for be slashed for from inspiring English sources

Subsidies are likely to be slashed for off-shore wind farm and other green energy supplies.

Safe recommended drinking limits should be slashed for the over-65s to take into account the effects of ageing, according to a doctors' report urging more action to tackle alcohol and drug misuse among the elderly.

The signals coming out of the N.B.A. these days are all dire and point to a lockout coming next offseason, with Commissioner David Stern saying on Thursday that player salaries need to be slashed for the league to be profitable.

Detroit's pension funds have gone to court in an effort to derail the biggest municipal bankruptcy in US history amid concerns that benefits will be slashed for the city's 20,000 retirees.

In a scathing attack on his party's Tory coalition partners, Mr Cable said plans for deeper spending cuts after the election would be "slashing for its own sake".

Food aid has been slashed for refugees in Syria and Somalia.

The Economist's latest poll shows that growth forecasts are being slashed for emerging economies almost everywhere (see chart 1).

Comparing average October forecasts with those made in September, America's expected GDP growth has been slashed, for 2001 from 1.6% to 1.0%, and for 2002 from 2.6% to 1.0%.

His first ball with that theory is slashed for four over third man by Afridi, then overthrows give them a couple more.

One of the best known deals is the "Florida drive out", when prices are slashed for anyone looking to rent a car for a one-way drive up north in spring.

Apparently it is impossible in this society, after the longest drop in living standards since the Depression, and with benefits being slashed, for anyone to become so poor as to have to ask strangers for help.