Sentence examples for election cut from inspiring English sources

Federally, the 1993 election cut it to just nine seats in Parliament; even its bounce back in 1997 brought only 21, under half of what it once enjoyed.

Until it failed to block Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's loosening of the city's term limits law last week, the party was on a roll this year, beginning with its effort for Darrel J. Aubertine, whose Feb. 26 victory in an upstate Senate special election cut the Republican margin to one seat.

Even before the general election, cuts were on the way.

However, whichever party (or parties) ends up in power after the election, cuts are looming, teachers' leaders warned.

Irrespective of which party won the election, cuts were going to be inevitable in every area of government spending – and the arts are no exception.

They will push for a February Budget, instead of one in March, in a bid to deny George Osborne a moment similar to Nigel Lawson's 1987 pre-election cut in the basic rate of tax, from 29% to 27%.

The Chancellor announced that £13bn of his £25bn of post-election cuts would be found by maintaining the squeeze on Whitehall departmental budgets.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies, in an audit of the main parties' economic plans, said all three had been "strikingly reticent" on post-election cuts.

The characterization of Azerbaijan's 2005 parliamentary elections ("Cutting Deals in Democracy's Dead End," Week in Review, Feb. 3) did not point out the significant strides that our country has made in its democratic evolution, a path we have chosen to follow since gaining our independence just 17 years ago.

Mocking up David Cameron's poster from the 2010 election ("I'll cut the deficit, not the NHS") Labour's initial campaign claims that the Tories want to cut spending to pre-NHS levels.

An early election could cut both ways.