Sentence examples for reductions began from inspiring English sources

Last month, these companies cut just 3,000 jobs, the smallest monthly number since the reductions began 16 months ago.

Pay reductions began April 1 for 200 senior managers and will begin May 1 for the rest of the work force.

The wave of reductions began in March after the European Commission urged European Union countries to lower termination rates, which average 9 euro cents (13 cents) a minute, to less than 3 cents by 2012.

The fare reductions began in June, when Uber lowered the price of UberX in its home market by about 25percentt.

Welfare officers said that meant it had already been difficult for benefit claimants in Oxford to cover their rent, but in April further reductions began to be phased in.

Evidence of mortality reductions began to appear, cancer-driving mutations became measurable, many novel drugs were registered, the methodology of clinical trials spread through health systems, targeted drugs and immunotherapy entered into the mainstream of therapeutics, and treatment goals started to shift from cure to chronic control.

The audit found that staff reductions beginning in 1995 resulted in critical shortages of scientific and technically skilled specialists at the agency.

The budget control act passed by Congress in 2011 mandated $480 billion in cuts over 10 years, with the possibility of $500 billion more in reductions, beginning next January.

Rate reductions begin after a year, and shares held for at least eight years will be taxed at an effective rate of 23.8%.

The plan, part of the comprehensive overhaul of the state's troubled child welfare system, calls for incremental caseload reductions beginning in January and culminating in 2007 with a limit of no more than 25 children per worker.

The reductions begin Feb. 28 and affect the annual retainer, which was $35,000 last year, as well as meeting fees, which were as much as $2,000 a meeting for directors who are not company employees, Continental said.