Sentence examples for raise sharply from inspiring English sources
American recently abandoned an attempt to raise sharply the ticket prices on some routes while cutting prices on others.
Either Mr Yeltsin will have to raise sharply his ceiling for military spending, or he will have to cut troop numbers much more deeply than he has so far proposed.
Attempts in Canada to raise sharply the tax on cigarettes to discourage smoking had to be reversed in 1994 because of massive smuggling across the United States border.But such "sin taxes" tend to be the exception.
(1-3) The article also stated that the proposed food stamp cuts would raise the risk for heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes in adults, while children would be more at risk for depression and asthma, and the poverty rate would raise sharply.
No, it was not an epic landmark because such prizes are not available against teams as wretchedly equipped as Andorra, but then the pub team from the Pyrenees have created some confusion in English hearts in the past – and they certainly were able to raise sharply Il Capo's blood pressure when he started on the road to the World Cup finals.
See articleSerbia has assured the International Criminal Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia in The Hague that it will hand over Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian-Serb general accused of genocide, by the end of April.Gazprom, Russia's state-run gas giant, said it was planning to raise sharply the prices it charges to Belarus, whose economy depends on cheap Russian gas.
The burden of new taxes will soar much higher if sales taxes are raised sharply.
"The only way you'd be able to do it is if rates were raised sharply".
Subscription prices for unlimited-exchange plans had to be raised sharply, alienating many of those same high-volume users.
The copper companies were nationalised, wages were raised sharply, while prices were kept low through price controls.
The report raises sharply critical questions about specific deals that the Treasury Department has made with the taxpayer-financed bailout.
