Sentence examples for direct cuts from inspiring English sources

The company described the workers as overpaid, but it did not seek direct cuts.

We have to go from direct cuts in spending to real reform of the way we finance and manage this.

The mayor said earlier this year that making the larger contributions would lead to "direct cuts in our classrooms".

California, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming wouldn't see direct cuts in their share of river water, but officials have acknowledged there would be ripple effects.

While no one is proposing direct cuts to the automatic stabilizers, some Republicans have proposed other cuts -- in military spending and help for farmers, for example -- that would offset the stabilizers' calming effect.

One principal said that if the superintendent of District 3, Patricia Romandetto, was facing a budget shortfall, she was choosing to combat it in the most harmful possible way to children -- through direct cuts to instruction.

"We buy direct, cut out the middleman and pass the savings onto customers," she said.

Supply the fuel direct, cut the dependency and shrink the Isis treasury.

The tornado seemed to make a direct cut through the area, Ms. Williamson-Baker said.

Hence Banyard's title, Pimp State, which she defines as governments taking a direct cut from the commercial sex industry by licensing brothels and taxing the people who own them.

Systems thinker Donella Meadows, the founder of the Vermont-based organisation that I now direct, cut to the heart of GDP's limitations when she wrote: "If you define the goal of society as GDP, that society will do its best to produce GDP.