Example sentences for: across-the-board

How can you use “across-the-board” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The narration and visual swiftly move on to "tax credits for college"--which polls report as more popular than Dole's widely anticipated proposal for a 10 or 15 percent across-the-board tax cut.

  • Taking a page from his opponent Christine Todd Whitman's playbook of four years ago, McGreevey promised an across-the-board reduction of 10 percent, not in income taxes but in auto-insurance premiums.

  • The New York Times leads with the 218-211 House passage of an $85 billion spending bill for health, education, and labor--a story off-leaded by the Washington Post and run inside at the Los Angeles Times and USA Today . President Clinton promised a veto, citing a Congressional Budget Office study concluding that the GOP is $17 billion over the spending limit needed to protect Social Security--this despite the bill's .97 across-the-board spending cut.

  • I believe that the issue of whether and how much to increase SES pay must be discussed within the context of how to make any pay increases variable and performance-based rather than across-the-board and fixed.

  • Furthermore, this approach attempted to channel relatively strong outside support for combating terrorism into backing for across-the-board funding increases.


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