"trim" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The budget cuts were left teetering, a decision that did not bode well for a pending effort to trim current spending across the board.
- Fear that consumers will trim spending is likely to produce vigorous price-cutting during the holiday shopping season.
- Many Senators, including me, have offered suggestions of ways to trim federal spending.
- How can the nation strike a balance between modernizing military forces and trimming military spending?
- Conservative efforts to trim spending, below levels negotiated before the election, have infuriated Democrats.
- The executive branch, though, is reviewing major Government contracts and has ordered each agency to come up with ways to trim spending, she said.
- The district trimmed spending and did all it could to avoid layoffs.
- In the last year, the Dinkins administration has been repeatedly forced to trim spending and press for tax increases.
- An independent central bank, with its power to raise interest rates, can trim private spending to offset a government's inclination to profligacy.
- But they also demanded proof that he intended to trim Federal spending enough to justify the tax increases.
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