Sentence examples for focusing on cuts from inspiring English sources

In August, it said it would close about one-third of its 94 offices worldwide, focusing on cuts in Asia and India.

Manufacturers have responded by focusing on cuts to capacity and costs, but Europe's auto sector has not undergone the sort of wrenching overhaul that General Motors and Chrysler did in the United States, using bankruptcy to restructure.

Gifford Miller, the speaker of the City Council, offered a rare glimpse of the new Council's vision for the city yesterday, focusing on cuts to children's services and raising taxes as potential battle lines in budget negotiations with the Bloomberg administration.

Mark Sheldon, chief finance officer, said: "We're all aware we have some tough times ahead, but I think it's important to re-iterate that we're doing more than just focusing on cuts.

Speaking at the Center for American Progress, an Obama administration-allied think tank, Schumer said the plan sent to the Senate by the Republican-controlled House took the wrong tack by focusing on cuts to discretionary spending, which makes up only a small portion of the overall budget.

Policy and headlines so far have focused on cuts as the central plank of the economic policy.

Mr. Boehner urged the new bipartisan committee to focus on cuts in federal spending and entitlement programs as a way of slowing the growth of government.

The trap in which David Cameron hopes to catch Labour is the same as Baldwin's and Thatcher's: push Labour into an electoral contest focused on cuts alone.

The measures, which focused on cuts to the bloated public sector and tax hikes including a levy on fuel, broke with almost every pledge the politician made prior to being elected last October.

Over the last few weeks, Labour had staged an energetic campaign focused on cuts to a big local hospital that serves 140,000 people, which seemed to chime with the national picture.

Instead, IPAB must focus on cuts that affect the providers and suppliers of medical care ― like having Medicare pay less for cataract surgery, CT scans or outpatient cancer drugs.