Sentence examples for cuts on the basis from inspiring English sources

But it would be a mistake to embrace deep, irreversible tax cuts on the basis of shaky surplus projections that may not pan out a decade hence.

In 2006, Mr. McCain supported extending the Bush tax cuts on the basis that letting them expire would represent a tax increase.

Of course, that fact doesn't help those who opposed the cuts on the basis of how much they would hurt the N.C. economy.

Labour's newly calibrated position is that it opposes some spending cuts, on the basis they slow recovery, but cannot promise to reinstate any of them ahead of an election.

But surely we can all agree that if the public are going to be sold tax cuts on the basis that they offer help to those who are struggling then all parties should have the decency to ensure that the money reaches them.

Ms Allen rebuked those defending the tax credit cuts on the basis that the overall impact of welfare changes over the five-year Parliament would make people better off, saying people on the "breadline cannot wait" for the Government's "ideal goal of lower welfare, lower tax, higher wage economy" to take effect.

Ideally, the initial 1,000 troops would be cut on the basis of an assessment of the threat from al-Shabab.

The neighbors were Serbs, and she was disturbed to realize that the lines were being cut on the basis of ethnicity.

Opponents of the administration's plan always warned that it was foolish to lock in a giant tax cut on the basis of hypothetical surplus projections.

In Brussels, the European Commission is pondering a legal challenge to the policy maker's pay cut on the basis that it is an unwarranted interference in the operations of the central bank.

Moody's made the cut on the basis that Portugal will have trouble raising funds in the markets, if private investors take a hit in a second rescue deal for Greece.