Sentence examples for in favour of slashing from inspiring English sources

"Summer camp is an American tradition dating back to the 19th Century, which lets boys and girls spend six weeks camping out under the stars, singing around the fire and learning valuable life skills". Those in favour of slashing the summer holiday cite research and anecdotal evidence from some teachers that children's learning regresses during the long break.

These have been rejected in favour of his desire to slash fees to barristers that have already been cut by 35% over the last six years.

He has slashed plans for more stores in favour of selling more wine at existing shops and has scrapped the chain's six-bottle minimum purchase, which harked back to its origins as a warehouse.

This week, while researchers were bemoaning the forthcoming slashing of NASA's scientific budget in favour of the agency's manned programme, yet more riches were coming forth for human spaceflight.

So should landlords be ditching the pricey high-street letting agents in favour of a raft of new online alternatives that promise to slash such costs and even axe fees to tenants altogether?

As early as 1550, the Goajiro of northeastern Colombia had virtually abandoned their pre-Columbian slash-and-burn horticulture in favour of an economic pattern previously unknown in the New World the herding of goats and cattle.

In Ohio, where a Republican legislature has repeatedly cut taxes, reduced municipal revenue sharing, and slashed statewide services, residents in some cities have voted in favour of new local levies and additional social programmes.

The UK Independence party would scrap inheritance tax, slash immigration by almost 80%, allow employers to discriminate in favour of British workers and make sure foreigners have medical insurance, it said as it unveiled the first of its general election policies.

The national planning policy framework (NPPF), introduced two years ago, slashed 1,300 pages of policy down to 65 and introduced a "presumption in favour of sustainable development".

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