Sentence examples for supported a cut from inspiring English sources

A majority of seven wanted to keep rates on hold, but Tim Besley backed a rise to 5.25% whereas David Blanchflower supported a cut to 4.75%.

Earlier this week, Missouri state Rep. Tom Flanigan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, announced that the committee supported a cut of more than $8 million in state aid to the system in next year's budget.

Underlining a wish to counter international market forces which seemed to penalise a larger welfare state, Benn publicly circulated the divided Cabinet minutes in which a narrow majority of the Labour Cabinet under Ramsay MacDonald supported a cut in unemployment benefits in order to obtain a loan from American bankers.

He also supports a cut to the reimbursement rate, the amount the state pays doctors for treating Medicaid patients.

Those include her decision, this spring, to vote in favor of a troop withdrawal timetable, and her decision to support a cut off of money for the war.

Dennis P. Lockhart, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said on Friday that he would support a cut when the Fed's policy-making committee meets in September as long as there was no particularly bad news between now and then.

Polls show that about three-quarters of French people support a cut in the seven-year term, which was written into the Constitution of the Fifth Republic by de Gaulle in 1958.

Long before Osborne took the decision to cut the top rate of tax and put huge sums of money back into the pockets of the top 1%, Johnson was calling for double the tax giveaway for the very richest, supporting a cut to just 40%.

Asked whether he would be urging his German counterpart to support a cut or a freeze in the EU budget, he said: "I believe it would be wrong for the European budget to increase at a time when we are having to make difficult decisions not just in Britain but all over the European Union to get our budgets back to balancing.

The Williams Commission recommended the number of councils be cut to 10 but Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews has said some Labour members support a cut to as few as six.

Any upside, real or unreal, of being viewed as "the grownup in the room" will be far outweighed by supporting a cut in Social Security benefits.