Sentence examples for emphasis on slashing from inspiring English sources
The one feature of welfare reform that has endured, say experts, is the emphasis on slashing welfare rolls.
Democrats gleefully pointed out the differences between the Republicans' new stress on reducing the national debt and Mr. Bush's emphasis on slashing tax rates.
I've made a version of this point before, and since then I've been heartened to see writers like Carroll and Tim Carney make supportive noises about (for instance) breaking with the longstanding conservative emphasis on slashing the top marginal tax rate and focusing on payroll taxes instead, which would be a solid step toward a more plausible right-of-center domestic policy.
Flake's severe brand of conservatism, with its emphasis on slashing budgets and traditional family values, plays well in the old Arizona that once elected Sen. Barry Goldwater, but not necessarily in the new one of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and, depending on his mood, Sen. John McCain.
Romney is putting a lot of emphasis on slash and burn fiscal policy and Ryan, 42, is the poster boy.
HuffPost's Amanda Terkel reported earlier this week that in the introduction O'Donnell describes the book as "a political memoir slash campaign diary slash position paper slash rallying cry, with an emphasis on the slash".
If Washington slashed arms exports and placed more emphasis on diplomacy, the number of crises demanding United Nations peacekeepers would drop to a more manageable level.
To be sure, the Obama Administration didn't pitch health-care reform as well as it might have: its emphasis on the way the bill would "bend the cost curve" was heard by seniors as "slash Medicare".
