Sentence examples for slash rather than from inspiring English sources

Do you like to slash, rather than lunge?

But he is technically woeful: a failed American Football player, when he lifts his leg he looks like a dog going for a slash rather than a martial artist delivering a kick, and he throws such wide, looping punches that his attacks couldn't be more predictable if Nostradamus gave word of them 500 years ago.

Cuts to council budgets across Britain have already had worrying impacts on the finances and operations of women's refuges, as funding for local services is slashed rather than salami-sliced.

He attributes much of the improvement to companies "slashing expenditures" rather than increasing sales.

These were teamed with skinny trousers which deliberately evoked Gucci's heydays in the Seventies and the Nineties, while fitted minidresses featured cutaway panels and slashed arms rather than acres of flesh.

After fizzling out over the past couple years as companies simply slashed jobs rather than move them, outsourcing is back in vogue.

In this era of sequestration, policymakers have been focused on cutting budgets and slashing programs, rather than making the investments that will help our next generation compete in the global economy.

In December 2008, city services would have only needed to be slashed by $2 million rather than $10 million if our fiscally conservative council members in July 2008 had not approved more than $8 million in pay raises for city employees.

First Bond himself, Daniel Craig, snapped he'd "rather slash my wrists" than reprise the role.

Initially, Craig said he would rather "slash my wrists" than play the spy again.

Before the film's release, Craig infamously said he would rather "slash his wrists" than play Bond again.