Sentence examples for pursued cuts from inspiring English sources

Against that backdrop, Congressional Republicans have pursued cuts in food stamp spending, and Republican-controlled state legislatures have enacted voter-identification laws.

Mr. Rajoy said he would pursue "cuts in every aspect of expenditure," with one exception: He said he was willing to raise pensions.

Representative Eric Cantor, a Virginia Republican and the majority leader, said Thursday that if lawmakers were unable to reach a deal, House Republicans would continue to pursue cuts through temporary budget bills.

In pursuing cuts to employment support allowance (ESA), forcing through the bedroom tax and ramping up the number and severity of sanctions meted out to jobseekers, Duncan Smith waved through policies that actively harm health.

Although there were some announcements from other European leaders, such as French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German chancellor Angela Merkel's decision not to pursue cuts in the rate of value-added tax, investors will have to wait until Wednesday to hear more about the euro zone's stimulus plans.

We can take solace in the fact that there has been no major follow-up terrorist attack since Sept. 11 and so pursue cut-rate security at a leisurely pace -- all the while forgetting another part of pre-Sept.

Many studies have focused on pursuing cut-off value of different metabolite ratios and have used these ratios in an attempt to contour gliomas.

In 1995, Mr. Gingrich pursued Medicare cuts that were not part of his Contract With America.

But it also pursued tax cuts during the economic recovery that followed, dropping income taxes and reducing the gross production tax on oil and gas companies.

His government has cut jobs in the state sector, pursued privatisation, cut taxes to woo foreign investors and tried to persuade Poles abroad to come home.

Mergers, they say, have not raised fares and have been pursued to cut costs.