Sentence examples for rather than slashing from inspiring English sources

The latest attempt to reshape the service had only made it more complex and "confusing", he said, rather than slashing red tape as was originally promised.

But the economic situation has been the same for years now – and it would have been kinder to do this to you earlier, rather than slashing and burning at the time of year when academic jobs are hardest to find.

4.19pm BST 9th over: India 75-1 (Rahane 31, Kohli 14) India seem to have deliberately calmed things down here, running ones and twos rather than slashing fours and sixes.

Given the state of the industry and the terms of the deal, a Wall Street Journal blog argues, the failure of the buy-out scheme was all but inevitable.At least for now, it seems that the bankruptcy filing is aimed at restructuring debt rather than slashing lots of jobs.

It's a lot like the austerity debate, where it was obvious all along that all the carping on debt was really a way to go after the welfare state — a point demonstrated forcefully by the hostile reaction of people like Olli Rehn when the French began reducing their deficit by raising taxes rather than slashing benefits.

German politicians are up in arms about rumours that all A380 production will be moved to France; Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a Socialist candidate for the French presidency, has said that rather than slashing costs, Mr Streiff should hire more workers in order to make up for the delays.

Rather than slash government spending or the size of the federal bureaucracy – they increased it.

Rather than slash at his ball after hitting his second drive into the woods, he said, he would have gone back to the tee again.

Two austerity packages had failed to convince Greece's European partners or the financial markets that measures to cut the budget deficit this year from 12.7% of GDP to 8.7% would work.Critics in Brussels said that Greece's Socialist government was relying too heavily on pledges to cut tax evasion and soak the rich, rather than slash spending, especially on public-sector pay and pensions.

The system incorporates slash-and-mulch of native vegetation (rather than slash-and-burn cultivation, which was widely practiced in the area before 1990), and the retention of trees within cropping fields.

When the economy was heading into the tank, rather than slash jobs, FedEx reduced salaries and benefits across the board -- in order to keep the workforce whole.