Sentence examples for slash by from inspiring English sources

The same day, the casino operator Macau Legend Development announced it would slash by half an I.P.O. that had planned to raise nearly $800 million.

It could also clear nearly half the national debt, which would slash by 40 per cent UK debt interest payments of £48 billion a year — a vast sum that would be better spent on housing, schools, hospitals and job creation.

To reach Romney's target of reducing federal spending to twenty per cent of G.D.P. by 2016, Congress would have to slash by forty per cent outlays on things like Medicaid, education, and transportation, one recent study suggested.

Other provisions would slash by half the budget of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was set up after the financial meltdown to protect consumers from predatory lending and other abuses, and reduce the pay of federal workers.

BAGHDAD -- Less than two months after American troops left, the State Department is preparing to slash by as much as half the enormous diplomatic presence it had planned for Iraq, a sharp sign of declining American influence in the country.

The government wants to slash by 87% subsidies for householders who install solar panels on their rooftops, in a move that renewable energy experts warn could kill off a promising industry.

Ministers' pay will be slashed by 15%.

Production was slashed by a fifth.

He wants to see carbon emissions slashed by 80%.

The estimates should have been slashed by half.

But jobs are being slashed by banks almost everywhere.