Sentence examples for slashing packaging from inspiring English sources

Cadbury has ditched plastic wrapping and shrunk boxes, slashing packaging by 16 per cent on large eggs and 13 per cent on medium ones this year.

It doesn't surprise me that the supermarket manager called 999; I've been shouted at by shop assistants and manhandled by security guards, and I know of several stores that deliberately wreck the food they dump by slashing the packaging or covering it with blue dye.

But faced with a sluggish economy and rising health care costs, they say they have little choice but to slash benefits packages, whether that means requiring a waiting period before benefits kick in, or offering no benefits at all.

Even in a recession which has slashed tour package sales by about 20% it is still estimated that 40,000 will head for South Africa over the next month specifically to watch a team which flopped horribly in New Zealand four years ago.

Among the well-heeled and long established international banking community in the enclaves of Notting Hill, St . Johns Wood and Chelsea, anxiety levels are rising as employers slash expatriate packages, forcing economies that range from seeking financial aid for private school tuition bills to trading down to a less grand residence.

Yet when a suicide becomes public, when a college student leaps from a building or a British weapons expert's body is found, wrist slashed, a package of painkillers by his side, blame is often assigned to a single precipitating event.

On Tuesday, Republicans plan to begin three days of debate on a package slashing at least $61 billion from nonsecurity domestic spending just in the remaining seven months of the current fiscal year.

With Greece's tourism revenues set to tumble by up to 15 percent this year, sellers of vacation packages are slashing rates by as much as 60 percent.

The shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, has set out a five-point growth package including slashing VAT to 5% for home improvements and a one-year small firms national insurance tax holiday for taking on extra workers.

Iqbal had been the inside man for a Colombian drugs cartel, using his uniform to deliver a razor to the mule to slash open the packaging – a blade in the suitcase would increase the likelihood of it being detecting by baggage checks – and then assisting in the removal of the drugs before the mule ever reached passport control.

By slashing the education and benefits packages that help have been shown to deter young people from criminal behaviour, the government risks a reversal in the decade-long decrease in crime.