Across-the-board
across-the-board (adjective) - involving everyone in a company or a whole industry or countryacross-the-board reductions
reduce prices across the board
an across-the-board increase
across-the-board tax rate cuts
took a 5 per cent pay cut across the board
OPEC announced a 10 per cent across-the-board cut in oil exports
building costs are higher right across the board
across-the-board budget cuts
automatic across-the-board cuts under the new law
bosses have ruled out an across-the-board increase from January
stocks fell across the board
stocks expected to fall across the board
shares closed firmer across the board in active trade
across-the-board buying in the oil sector sparked a rally
the policy of high interest rates is beginning to have an impact in slowing down the across-the-board demand for imports
using an across-the-board figure...
not confined to particular activities, and therefore has an across-the-board application
across-the-board mark-downs
across-the-board mark-downs of brewing stocks
policy increasing demand for goods and services across the board
across-the-board policies
across the board change
no reason for any knee-jerk reaction or across-the-board actions here
the first official, across-the-board inquiry into the modern press
the report paints a dismal picture of the company's record across-the-board during the last few years
set to cut prices across-the-board this week on its desktop line
across-the-board income tax cut of 10 per cent
a uniform, across-the-board depreciation
create a domino effect across the board
the changes will cause problems right across the board
an across the board failure of justice
the EC fishing fleet should be cut by 40 per cent across the board
cutbacks continued across the board in all sectors
aimed to please right across the board
widespread opposition from across the board
trying a bit of good house-keeping across the board
across-the-board respect for green thinking
a 2 per cent across-the-board cut in spending by all ministries
across-the-board deals
across-the-board reductions in federal programmes
allow few across-the-board answers or approaches
an across-the-board increase in national insurance rates
when across-the-board cuts have to be made for macroeconomic purposes
organic farming is described by its supporters as a sustainable policy for the future, and can be applied across the board:
a proportionate increase in costs across the board
more consultation with industry people across the board
right across the board
Example sentences:
* It would create a domino effect across the board.
* We are trying a bit of good house-keeping across the board.
* However, Mr Jordan noted that staffing levels would not benefit in the short term as cutbacks continued across the board in all sectors.
* We are aimed to please right across the board.
* Across-the-board reductions with many products under half price.
* These include a capital gains tax cut, a 15% investment tax allowance and across-the-board tax rate cuts.
* An across-the-board increase of £100 per manager
* The staff took a 5 per cent pay cut across the board.
* Computer stocks fell across the board this week.
* Things might have been different if there had been more consultation with industry people across the board.
* The changes, if reported correctly, will cause problems right across the board.
* Everyone seems to be selling right across the board.
* We're for choice right across the board.
* What we have seen across the board is a failure of justice.
* Singapore: Shares closed firmer across the board in active trade, with the Straits Times index 8.17 points higher at 1,413.15.
* This change of behaviour will be quickly felt in the economy, increasing demand for goods and services across the board.
* Otherwise Congress would have to face the consequences of automatic across-the-board cuts under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget deficit reduction law.
* On Wall Street, across-the-board buying in the oil sector sparked a rally.
* The figures for the three months to the end of November indicate that the policy of high interest rates is beginning to have an impact in slowing down the across-the-board demand for imports which has set Britain on course for a worst ever annual trade deficit.
* Apart from Africa, there is not a great deal of potential arable land left, so, using an across-the-board figure, it would be necessary to devote approximately 66 per cent of all farmed lands to cereals.
* There was also recognition of the need for various levels of wage-bargaining, rather than across-the-board deals, following work stoppages earlier in October by independently organized groups of train drivers (Oct. 15) and by air traffic controllers and national airline cabin staff (Oct. 18).
* The Cabinet also agreed to reduce cash allocations and other benefits to new immigrants, to reduce child allowances and to implement a 2 per cent across-the-board cut in spending by all ministries except Defence.
* Its great merit is that it is not confined to particular activities, and therefore has an across-the-board application to different sources of endangerment.
* Fears of higher interest rates if Labour takes power produced across-the-board mark-downs of brewing stocks.
* Reagan and his government-shrinking colleagues attempted an across-the-board 12-per cent blood-letting on the research and development budget.
* This diversity means that across-the-board policies can rarely meet the specific needs of individual areas.
* And how can we account for its appearance now when less than two years ago, Reagan and his government-shrinking colleagues attempted an across-the-board 12-per cent blood-letting on the research and development budget they had inherited from Jimmy Carter?
* In the event the Act required simultaneous, across-the-board registration of both sectors, placing an unnecessary strain on the private sector, and ensuring the greatest possible public hostility to the legislation, and the greatest possible strain on the Registrar's Office.
* In a move more likely to divide the party than unite it, he hinted that the traditional socialist commitment to across-the-board state benefits might be ditched.
* Nowhere in these islands, outside South Wales, is there such across-the-board enthusiasm, from the professional classes to the `;cloth-capped'; brigade.
* Because of John Major's Passengers Charter, bosses have ruled out an across-the-board increase from January.
* Authors Charles Ferguson and Charles Morris paint a dismal picture of the company's record across-the-board since the 1970s and presage a painful decline leading to a disaster of enormous proportions that will drag down with it IBM stockholders, employees, suppliers, the US computer industry at large and the nation as a whole.
* Sun is set to cut prices across-the-board this week on its desktop line as part of its transition to Viking starting May 19th: just how deep they'll go remains to be seen.
* Basically we've looked and said there's no reason for any knee-jerk reaction or across-the-board actions here. We'll do this on our own timetable.
* Similarly, the 1947 Royal Commission on the Press, the first official, across-the-board inquiry into the modern press.
* In the lace 1970s, Congressman Jack Kemp and Senator William Roth had put forward the idea of an across-the-board income tax cut of 10 per cent in each of three successive years, a proposal taken up enthusiastically by supply-side advocates like Stockman and warmly embraced by Ronald Reagan.
* This could mean either a uniform, across-the-board depreciation of a greater depreciation against some currencies than others, i.e. some currencies in effect appreciate against the deficit country.
Secondly, the model implies that curriculum planning is always to some extent a contingent matter, in which there will be few across-the-board answers.
* Practice does not take place in a vacuum, and may be implicitly based on contingent theories which allow few across-the-board answers or approaches.
* But should this approach be followed if a future government should decide to make an across-the-board increase in national insurance rates that is significantly above the increase in prices?
* It provides flexibility when across-the-board cuts have to be made for macroeconomic purposes.
* The across-the-board respect for green thinking had a lot to do with this change in atmosphere --; so too did the disappearance of the `;Soviet threat';.
* Congressional criticism of Bush's proposals concentrated on the limited additional funding provided; Democrats proposed an alternative plan, calling for total spending of $10,100 million, the additional $2,200 million to be provided by across-the-board reductions in federal programmes.
* Public-sector workers, it was announced in mid-October, would received a fixed pay rise of 12,000 australs and have an earlier fixed bonus of 8,000 australs incorporated into their monthly salaries; according to Rapanelli this represented an across-the-board increase of between 9 per cent for the highest paid and 32 per cent for the lowest paid.
* In an attempt to reduce support for Israel, OPEC announced a 10 per cent across-the-board cut in oil exports (later briefly raised to 25 per cent) and a selective embargo, directed chiefly at the United States.
* This does not mean, however, that young children are realists across the board.
* They are expected to fall across the board among the firm's 38,500 employees but will be confined to New York.
* As a result, building costs are higher right across the board for nuclear stations and construction time is also up to twice as long.
* Organic farming is described by its supporters as a sustainable policy for the future, and can be applied across the board: arable, dairy, beef, sheep, pig, poultry, vegetable and fruit.
* The immediate effect of the revenue enhancement however, brought with it a more than proportionate increase in costs across the board and a surplus deflated by approximately £100,000.
* It must be a solution that reduces prices across the board, not only equitably throughout Europe but in the United States.
* The report said that, as a matter of urgency, the EC fishing fleet should be cut by 40 per cent across the board, with incentives offered to fishermen to retire or retrain, and to take boats out of service.
* Italy has abandoned a landfill levy a week after its introduction, against a background of widespread opposition from across the board.
