Sentences with phrase «whittle who»

As part of the run - up to the event, people are being asked to tweet their favourite Lincoln - based engineer or inventor — whether it's a historic figure, such as Frank Whittle who invented the jet engine, or someone's friend or relative who has encouraged them to take an interest in engineering.

First presented in 1952, previous recipients of the Churchill Medal include Sir Frank Whittle who is credited with inventing the turbojet engine and Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, the British aviation pioneer.

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To help you filter through all the products and whittle them down to the essentials that you won't regret listing, we consulted the people who are already well - acquainted with the process: the parents who work at Business Insider.

NASA whittles its total applicant pool down by filtering out people who don't meet those criteria and by relying on the input of a panel of experts, mostly active astronauts.

When it took weeks for the campaign to vet volunteers in Texas who wanted to canvass in nearby states, Brady proposed a streamlined online interview format that the campaign adopted, whittling the approval process to a few days.

Those who bankrolled the Korean War didn't get hit quite as badly, but the resulting rise in inflation nevertheless whittled away at their returns as well.

Eventually the group was whittled down to the pair, who later married and settled in an old farmhouse outside of Cincinnati, affectionately dubbed «Nowhere Farm,» where they spend their time when they aren't touring.

The doctrine produces outward Christian activity - an informal code on what is «Christian» life - style (the agreed points of which are nevertheless being whittled down with each passing year), Christian activity in and out of church, and a Christian empire with organs of entertainment, education, and political influence - but it does not necessarily produce Christians who are, at the roots of their being, Christian.

The fact that you implicitly call someone a «victim» despite the fact that they are dealing with THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR OWN ACTIONS tells me your a communist liberal who cries about everything and stands to whittle away at everything AMERICA used to stand for!

Peter Whittle pointed out in the September Standpoint magazine that «If faced with a group of gang members playing music unbearably loud in the car next to them at traffic lights I personally know of nobody - nobody, from Daily Telegraph reader toGuardian reader - who would risk asking them to turn it down... but it's not just the gang culture.»

Whittled down from millions of wannabe footballers to the thousands of professional footballers to the hundreds who break through into those kinds of roles, again, it must be noted that these are the elite.

In their season together before Borges moved to UCLA, they built around Ricky Whittle, who carried 260 times and caught 55 passes.

Whittle the list down to 2 starting with Jack Wilshere who scores nothing and creates nothing.

Evans will then whittle his squad down to 26 players who he will work with at another training camp in mid-July and take to London in August to the World Cup.

The Blues, who have seen their Formerly healthy lead at the summit whittled down by United, now find themselves trailing the Reds by three points having played a game more.

In the meantime, we've put together a collection of pretty things from Folksy designers and makers who will be at Renegade this weekend, so you can whittle them down into a wishlist before you go — or if you can't make it to Renegade this time, you can find them Folksy!

In the hustings, Nuttall, said the death penalty should be returned for those who kill children, while Suzanne Evans and Peter Whittle were against the punishment.

Peter Whittle, Ukip's culture spokesman, told Good Morning Britain voters «had seen common sense in UKIP» and «60 % of people who voted for us are saying they are considering voting for us at the general election.»

In the weeks following the election of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who personally lobbied for Mark - Viverito, the field of candidates for the city's second-most powerful position was whittled down to the East Harlem lawmaker and Councilman Dan Garodnick (D - Manhattan).

From fresh clarity about the gun control debate to whittling down the possibilities of who will get the top job in America's most populous city, here are the five biggest things to watch:

Losing out: Bin men could see their # 10,000 pensions cut to # 3,249 Teachers retiring on a final salary of # 50,000, who would normally receive a pension of # 25,000, would see this whittled down to little more than # 7,000.

Each year an international committee of taxonomists — those who name and classify new species — gather at the IISE to discuss the newly named specimens and whittle them down to a top 10.

«It takes time for the warming to whittle down the ice sheets,» added Carlson, who is in OSU's College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, «but it doesn't take forever.

Rich in heart - healthy fats, protein, fiber, and antioxidants, nuts can help reduce risk for chronic diseases and may help you whittle your waistline: Studies show that people who eat a handful of nuts everyday are leaner that those who don't.

If you're among the 30 % of Americans who sleep less than six hours a night, here's one simple way to whittle your waistline: catch more Zs.

David Kirsch, the New York City trainer who famously whittled Heidi Klum's body back into shape just six weeks after the birth of her fourth child so she could strut her stuff at the Victoria's Secret fashion show, agrees.

And avocados can also help whittle your middle: according to one study, people who regularly consume them weigh less and have smaller waists than those who do not.

Dieters who consumed 1,200 to 1,300 milligrams of calcium every day experienced three times the middle - whittling as those getting the same number of calories but less calcium, a University of Tennessee study found.

There's Work It, which includes a mascara, eyeliner, and two shadow sticks to create a pretty daytime look; Get Glowing, a kit that helps you achieve an allover, luminous glow; Glam It Up, a four - piece set geared toward crafting a dramatic evening look (for those who like plummy, pink - y makeup, that is); and finally, the sole skin kit of the group, Korean Skincare Made Simple, which whittles down the 12 - step Korean skin - care regimen to just three (it contains an oil cleanser, konjac sponge, facial milk, and sleep mask).

Online dating sites (or dating applications) make it easy to filter through the user base, enabling you to start off from your list of musts and then manually whittle down the results to only those who meet your highest criteria level.

Knowing that you will only date someone who loves pets or that you'll never date a smoker will make it easier to whittle down your potential matches.

Once you've posted the idea, people can register their interest in your date, and after you have whittled down these respondents to three, and chatted to these shortlisted users, you decide who you want to take on the date.

Also in attendance at the party were Westworld «s James Marsden, Thor: Ragnarok «s Karl Urban, Star Trek: Discovery «s Sonequa Martin - Green, The Gifted «Jamie Chung and Stephen Moyer, The Orville «s Seth MacFarlane and Halston Sage, actor Zachary Levi, Once Upon a Time «s Lana Parrilla, Colin O'Donoghue, and Dania Ramirez, Black Panther «s Chadwick Boseman, Sharknado «s Cassie Scerbo and Tara Reid, Supergirl «s Odette Annable, The Magicians «Olivia Taylor Dudley, Game of Thrones «Iwan Rheon and John Bradley - West, Power Rangers «Dacre Montgomery, American Gods «Ricky Whittle and Orlando Jones, Stranger Things «David Harbour, Spider - Man: Homecoming «s Tony Revolori, Doctor Who «s Peter Capaldi, Gotham «s Cory Michael Smith, Robin Lord Taylor, and Camren Bicondova, Midnight Texas «Arielle Kebbel, Jason Lewis, Sarah Ramos, and Francois Arnaud, The Last Ship «s Bridget Regan, comedian Ana Gasteyer, Planet of the Apes «Andy Serkis, Lucifer «s Tricia Helfer and Aimee Garcia, SNL «s Aidy Bryant, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency «s Hannah Marks, former Hawaii Five - 0 star Grace Park, Prison Break: Resurrection «s Sarah Wayne Callies, as well as David Arquette, and Lydia Hearst and Chris Hardwick.

Its protagonist, Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle), is an ex-con who becomes bodyguard and traveling partner to Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane), a conman who in reality is one of the older gods, on a cross-country mission to gather his forces in preparation to battle the new deities.

Yet at the same time Burt swears off cigarettes and liquor, he isn't hesitant about hopping in bed with his female friend (Annie Whittle) or an American widow (Diane Ladd) who exchanges trailer parts for sexual favors.

Helgeland, who won an Oscar for his superb whittling down of James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential (1997), has gone back to John Godey's 1973 novel for inspiration — a bad idea, as it lacks the cleaner plotting and street smarts that screenwriter Peter Stone (Charade) brought to it on film.

A silly storyline involving Bacon's estranged wife, who calls his cell phone constantly but refuses to speak, is whittled down to the point of meaninglessness but left in the film nonetheless.

The judging panel included Steve Balsamo (prolific singer / songwriter); Chris Eaton (songwriter including Cliff Richard's «Saviour's Day»); and Margaret Foxley (Jessica Foxley Music Projects), who whittled down all the entries to six.

They have been whittled down to the final ten choirs, who are:

«It's always a good sign to the investors coming in that those who are there continue to put money in,» Mr. Whittle said last...

The company has received new capital from four investment firms and four individuals, including Mr. Whittle, who has already sunk millions of his own fortune into Edison.

After all, the leading thinkers who have found the time to contribute to Ed Next forums have included such seemingly busy people as Richard Elmore, Kati Haycock, Diane Ravitch, Hank Levin, Andy Rotherham, Joe Williams, Rick Hanushek, Checker Finn, Jay Greene, Bruno Manno, Chris Whittle, Bryan Hassel, Eva Moskowitz, Susan Eaton, and Howard Fuller.

They were whittled down to a shortlist of six, who were then interviewed by the current Head Girls and the Director of St Mary's Senior School Miss Anwen Jones and Head of Year 10 Mrs Jude Johnson.

Whittling Out Haiku Elizabeth Jackson, who teaches as Sweetwater (Texas) High School, submitted this week's lesson in which pictures inspire haiku writing and sharing.

The company was founded by Christopher Whittle, who also created Channel One.

The committee will whittle those seven down to a few, who will then go through a one - on - one interview with Don Hall, deputy superintendent of operations.

Russian Pavel Luksha, who is a leader in GEFF as we covered here in 2015, also turns out to be involved with Chris Whittle's new venture called the Whittle School, a global education venture.

Board includes Gregory Prince (President, Educational Services Associates), Carol Thompson Cole (President & CEO, Venture Philanthropy Partners), Deborah McGriff (Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund), Chris Whittle (an education entrepreneur who founded the ill - fated Edison Schools and now serves as the chief executive officer of Avenues: The World School, «a planned international system of independent pre-K-12 schools) and Kevin P. Chavous (CEO of the Chavous Group, an education reform consulting and public relations group).

As NCLB slowly dies from a combination of Congressional inattention, regulatory whittling, and the sheer weight of public rejection, it's worth asking why so much of the optimism surrounding the law proved unfounded, and what those who still believe in federal intervention on behalf of disadvantaged students should do next.

In the end, 273 books were whittled down to one winner, and the title went to The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble's Braids.