Sentence examples for support slashing from inspiring English sources

Only one proposal doing the rounds has Mr Funayama's support: slashing the 480 lower-house seats in the Diet (parliament) by half.It is one of the pet policies of Toru Hashimoto, son of a small-time gangster and 43-year-old mayor of the city of Osaka.

In addition to the suggestion that Nunn adopt corporate America's priorities, the memo lists as advisers on issues like tax reform and the budget various deficit hawk groups funded by private equity billionaire Pete Peterson, which support slashing Social Security and Medicare.

The best cost-saving measure - energy efficiency - has had its support slashed by Rudd and the Conservative party has forgone the cheapest of all low-carbon energy, onshore wind.

Energy efficiency firms hoping to cash in on the desperately needed upgrading of our housing stock to bring it closer to European standards have had their support slashed including for the poorest households.

But the signals sent by the drafts seemed to be at odds with statements made by Nikki Haley, the incoming ambassador to the U.N., who spoke of "coalition building" during her confirmation hearing earlier this month, and told senators that while she opposed much of the U.N.'s recent actions, she would not support "slash and burn" cuts to its budget.

Now he's a senator who supports slashing aid to planned parenthood.

Republican lawmakers demanded the cuts last year as part of their brinkmanship over the debt ceiling, and business lobbies have generally supported slashing the deficit.

He supports slashing the military budget I suppose.

He has stated he supports "slashing government spending", including Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, which would involve cutting Medicare and Medicaid by 43 percent and turning them into block grant programs, with control of spending in the hands of the states to create, in his words, "fifty laboratories of innovation".

The clamor from the elevated train jangles the nerves, while the steel lattice supports slash the street in crisscross shadows.

Does she support immediately slashing 20%+ in neo-natal care, child nutrition, Pell Grants and cancer research as the House bill demands?