Sentence examples for by a halved from inspiring English sources

The four senators One Nation elected in 2016 came off the back of a national primary vote of 4.28%, helped mightily by a halved electoral threshold thanks to Malcolm Turnbull's decision to hold a full-Senate election.

In changes made to the Rural Development Programme 2007 to 2013, what used to be a set sum (7,000 SEK) per livestock unit and year was replaced by a fixed sum (18,000 SEK) paid out for 'summer farms in use', complemented by a halved sum per livestock unit (3,500 SEK; Statens Jordbruksverk 2007).

Recently I made the bruschetta with tomatoes and mozzarella (my local tomatoes are not ready, and the intense roasted cherry tomatoes in this recipe are a good substitute), followed by pork chops with lemon (a halved lemon is roasted with the chops, making a sublime syrupy sauce) and 15-Minute Chocolate Cake (sheer heaven out of three ingredients -- four of us fell upon it until it was gone).

For a mild citrusy flavor, combine halved lemons, a halved onion and bay leaves.

At lunchtime, spoon into a halved toasted pitta.

Add a halved onion to your water/stock.

Attach hinges to a halved barrel.

If a problem shared is a problem halved, then by the same token, a joke shared is one more than doubled.

He dismissed the idea that flying at 5,000 feet would put extensive strain on the airframe, as some have suggested: "The only really relevant effect is a dramatic increase in fuel use - its range would be very much shortened by that; probably halved, at a very rough guess.

She is "half a doctor" as she likes to say, as she is half a wife, half a parent, half a lover -- halved by history into a life of some current comfort without conviction or hope.

One case, where a family was petrified by halved lemons strewn outside the house, clothes torn and the milk spoilt with salt, was traced to a daughter-in-law whose husband would not take her to the movies.