Sentence examples for slashed in order from inspiring English sources

There was also a mass transfer of the unemployed industrial workers to the countryside, and industrial investment was temporarily slashed in order to free resources for farm production.

The circus, created by magically manipulating a theatre impresario, serves as the duelling ground for the latest pair of students, Marco the orphan and Prospero's beautiful daughter, Celia, whose training includes regularly having her fingertips slashed in order to learn how to mend broken objects.

But, no matter how much we wish it were so, the US military budget is not about to be slashed in order to pay our planetary dues.

My friends who are working at a 9-5 job right now are betting that they made the right choice and that they won't be unexpectedly laid off or have their hours slashed in order to save their jobs.

Most countries now accept that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must be drastically slashed in order to avoid environmental catastrophe.

He agreed with Romney that the corporate tax rate is too high and he again missed the opportunity to tell the truth that Social Security, Medicare and social programs don't need overhauling and slashing in order to continue the programs and reduce our deficit.

That is partly because PDVSA has slashed investment in order to pay for social programmes, and partly because its payroll has doubled to 90,000 in the past four years.

The vital Greek tourism sector, hit by negative publicity and fears of a euro exit, has mounted a sales campaign and slashed prices in order to keep visitors coming, as Harvey Morris reported in Rendezvous.

Thus far cuts have been imposed unequally across Whitehall, with defence, local government and police funding slashed deeper in order to maintain current levels of health, pension and education spending.

Manufacturing output did fall sharply in the last few months of 2000, but this was mainly the result of inventory effects: companies produced too much in the face of slowing demand, found that they had accumulated excess inventories, and temporarily slashed production in order to clear their warehouses.

In it, J.C. Penney characterized Blatchford's revelations on NBC that the company drastically hiked prices and then slashed them in order to tout a "sale" as "trade secret, proprietary and confidential business information".