Sentence examples for books cutting from inspiring English sources

Now, at a time when we've inherited a trillion-dollar deficit, we will start by doing a little housekeeping, going through our books, cutting wasteful education programs.

Over the summer, in fact, Amazon.com raised its prices substantially on books, cutting the discount on best sellers to 40percentt from 50percentt.

Mr. O'Neal tore into the unit's books, cutting costs that had grown during the 1990's and eliminating about 2,000 jobs.

Between them the two parties will be just one seat short of a majority (or two, if they provide the speaker).The leftward tilt is a challenge for Mr Martin, a businessman who as finance minister balanced Canada's books, cutting both taxes and spending.

Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, which ran from 2001 to 2003 across three films, is a more or less pitch-perfect recreation of Tolkein's books, cutting fat when necessary, but staying true to the spirit of the original story in a way that pleased fans and delighted critics who saw fit to throw Oscars at it when it swept every category it was nominated for in 2004.

In the 1980s, agents began holding movie rights to books, cutting publisher profit potential for some books drastically, but at least if a movie got made and was successful, it was likely to boost sales of a book.

Although salon owners can't measure precisely how much their businesses are hurt by off-the-books cutting, traffic is slowing at high-end hair palaces in Midtown and on the Upper East Side, insiders say, as women wait longer between cuts and stoop to coloring their own hair.

Indian firms rewrote the rule book, cutting tariffs lower than others had dared and outsourcing parts of their operations.

So he and his publishers have produced their own version of a high-class Reader's Digest 'condensed' book, cutting the original (almost) in half, and providing us also with a very useful dramatis personae at the end.

Toys R Us countered with its coupon book, cutting the price gap and hoping its wider selection will make its stores the destination for holiday buyers, especially as inventories dwindle elsewhere.

The Laborites also vow to balance the books by cutting the deficit annually, but have  not outlined how much they intend to cut each year and say their government will achieve their goal through several key tax increases, also unspecified.