Sentence examples for cuts were instituted from inspiring English sources

Power cuts were instituted and factories closed.

Nonetheless, austerity measures were instituted, including cuts in public services.

Lessons were instituted.

Reforms were instituted.

WASHINGTON -- The 12-member super committee created to slash the federal deficit is powered by the threat that if it doesn't come up with $1.2 trillion in savings, automatic, across-the-board cuts will be instituted to reach that same goal, with half of those cuts hitting the Pentagon.

The Reagan tax cuts had been instituted in 1981, and the committee was getting ready to mark up a bill that would close some corporate loopholes.

While Ryan has not made clear the specifics of how the cuts would be instituted, Dottie Rosenbaum of the CBPP speculates that they would most likely come in two areas: a change in eligibility requirements and an across-the-board cut in the benefits available.

While the Tribune Company emphasized in a news release that similar cuts would be instituted at several of the company's other 13 daily newspapers over the next few weeks, it emphasized that the primary reason was the ad revenue losses at The Times.

Only last week Edmund Daukoru Nigeria's oil minister and the President of OPEC declared he is "not comfortable with current prices" and further production cuts should be instituted at OPEC's December 14th meeting.

On Thursday, Mr. Greenspan endorsed the idea of cutting tax rates across the board, even though he cautioned that such cuts could seldom be instituted quickly enough to help the economy significantly.

How could he understand what all of us [IHSS families] are going through?" The seven percent cut in IHSS hours was instituted two years ago in the wake of a court battle that successfully stopped the implementation of a draconian 20percentt chop in IHSS funding instituted by the Arnold Schwarzenegger administration.