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:

  • 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.

  • The Washington Post leads with a House Republican plan to cut Government spending across-the-board by 1.4 percent.

  • Their ability to perform any mission, counterterrorism included, they argued, depended on preserving what they had, restoring what they had lost since the beginning of the 1990s, and building from there-with across-the-board recruitment and training of new case officers, and the reopening of closed stations.

  • Yesterday, the House passed a massive budget bill that included a 0.38 percent "across-the-board" budget cut.


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