Sentence examples for commitments to slash from inspiring English sources

While Davey attempts to show leadership at the Doha climate talks, the chancellor is hard at work handing out tax breaks to the fossil fuel industry that threaten to make a mockery of UK commitments to slash emissions".

This increase in domestic production jars with the US's commitment to slash emissions and help keep global temperatures below a 2C rise on pre-industrial times.

Moreover, the price of these loans has been a commitment to slash government spending far more drastically than domestic leaders would have the desire or the political power to accomplish on their own.

Ageing coal plants must close by 2025 if the UK is to get anywhere near its legally binding commitment to slash carbon emissions by 60 per cent of 1990 levels by 2030.

A serious commitment to slash entitlements or foreswore new wars?

The international community's historic commitment to slash worldwide poverty in half by 2015 -- known collectively as the Millennium Development Goals -- has resulted in real advances: Primary school enrollment is up, new cases of preventable diseases are down, and millions of people have climbed out of extreme poverty.

Behind that refusal, in turn, lies the administration's commitment to slashing tax rates on the affluent while blocking aid for families in trouble — a commitment that requires maintaining the pretense that government spending is always bad.

GOP senators have begun sharpening their swords for an epic face-off over a proposed earmark ban, a measure that some members of Congress believe must be taken to prove their commitment to slashing spending.

The UN climate chief, Christiana Figueres, said future commitments by industrial countries to slash greenhouse gas emissions is "the defining issue of this conference".

The countries' support brings the pact struck last December much closer to coming into force, and marking their commitment to drive efforts to slash greenhouse gases.

But it's not just Republicans who have embraced a commitment to drastically slash deficit spending.