Sentence examples for swiftly cut from inspiring English sources

Anything that worked against this was swiftly cut.

The farmer's wife handed the first one to her husband, who bent down and swiftly cut off its head with a sharp knife.

Installed at the president's desk in June, he swiftly cut headquarters staffing from 7,000 to 150 to speed up decision making.

The Dallas/Fort Worth airport swiftly cut $10 million from its $200 million operating budget, and warned of more large cuts to come.

While the Red Cross facilitated regular phone and Skype calls between the men and their families, the calls were swiftly cut if they discussed their cases or living conditions in Bagram, where thousands of people have been detained since 2001.

Those weapons, and Russia's close relationship with neighbouring Belarus, means the Baltics could be swiftly cut off from the rest of Europe, if Lithuania's short stretch of border with Poland was threatened.

Jupiter Kam, 55, a Hong Kong Chinese tailor, flies with Mr. Asaf to each city and swiftly cuts and sews rough garments to give an initial fitting for each customer.

As he swiftly cuts a tall row of amaryllis, muttering all the while about the chancellor, one gets the feeling he would like to take his clippers to Mr. Schröder.

The chief executive, Rick Haythornthwaite, has moved swiftly to cut jobs and sell divisions to help restore profits.

SINCE he took over as I.B.M.'s chief executive eight months ago, Samuel J. Palmisano has moved swiftly to cut costs, jettison lagging operations and add to the company's big-services business.

Reductions to local authority budgets were announced in the comprehensive spending review last October, which is why councils have acted swiftly to cut jobs and services from the beginning of the new financial year.