Sentence examples for but in order to plug from inspiring English sources

But in order to plug a leak you have to be able to find it.

The first Fisk Jubilee concerts were held in order to plug a hole in the school's budget.

The Conservative-run district council turned to commercial property in order to plug the widening gap caused by year-on-year reductions to its central government grant.

Anderson, who has a commercial incentive to feed journalists exciting quotes in order to plug his book, backed up Legal Business's claims about a drug-delivery service.

In order to plug the capacity gap, household bills by 2020 could increase by as much as £30 a year – nearly double government estimates.

One of the biggest is whether to cut taxes to spur growth or to raise taxes and cut spending in order to plug the fiscal hole (see article).

His proposal to double the consumption tax in order to plug the national finances before Japan became another Greece was meant to sound like responsible politics.

A City Hall deal to privatize Chicago's parking meters, in order to plug a budget gap, quadrupled parking rates downtown and sparked intense public criticism.

Worryingly, Buhari's government appears to be relying on clawing back its stolen billions, squirrelled away in international banks or spent on expensive property in London, in order to plug the gap in its finances caused by falling oil prices.

That's a point made by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which has said the chancellor will also have to look to the welfare budget or to tax increases in order to plug the hole in the public finances.

The Department for Business (BIS) is considering cutting £350m of grants to the UK's poorest students and slashing £215m from ringfenced science funding in order to plug a £1.4bn hole in its finances, the Guardian has learned.