Sentences with phrase «whittles from»

The field has been whittled from 87 to 53 as the third round begins.

The finalists were whittled from a list of 15 cars and 13 trucks that were named as candidates for the 2008 awards.

The old man's face was sunburnt and as lined as if it had been whittled from oak; his beard was like a bird's nest flaked with ash.

Comte subverts nature with a meditation of form, creating smooth winding sculptures whittled from walnut, acacia, ebony, cherry, oak, or olive wood.

Wilmerding said the partnership under discussion would call for an infusion of National Gallery brainpower and art loans to MOCA, which has seen its curatorial staff whittled from five to two over the last 10 months.

Not exact matches

After receiving and sorting through hundreds of responses from media outlets and readers of the blog, the titles have been whittled down to 20 and the most popular books are highly favored.

In 2011, while whittling through $ 500,000 from a silent seed investor, he went after several dozen potential backers in New York City, Boston and Silicon Valley.

Amazon has whittled its list of potential sites for its second headquarters from 238 bids across North America to just 20, the company announced on Thursday morning.

But you know what happens to bids in negotiations: They get whittled away, the terms get changed, and, sometimes, the whole negotiation breaks down under the force of an ultimatum from one of the parties involved.

From there, it's a long, intense process whittling the ideas down to a mere 40 names.

Counter to the traditional funnel approach to viewing marketing, David Edelman instead proposed a circular process with a few key departures from the «whittle - down» methodology of traditional marketing called the Consumer Decision Journey.

Since I come from the marketing and advertising industry (Time, Inc., Whittle Communications), and have been online since dial - up, I bring an unusual blend of skills to my clients.

Yet for us this epistemological dimension of the redemption is not from the supposedly «incurably» dualistic nature of human knowing but from stubbornly dualistic theories of human knowing which over the millennia of their influence have whittled away wonder.

On the federal level, while the wages of ordinary workers find no shelter from the Internal Revenue Service, exemptions and special preferences for landowners whittle down their taxes or turn real estate losses into profits.

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.»

Here is a passage from the diary of Cotton Mather's brother: «Of the manifold sins which then I was guilty of, none so sticks upon me, as that, being very young, I was whittling on the Sabbath - Day; and for fear of being seen, I did it behind the door.

It came as a huge shock to find a memorial to Frank Whittle, somebody I remember from having had Sunday lunch with, at the far end of the Henry VII Chapel.

For instance, by helping a client make the transition from a rigid container to a standup pouch, ALLIEDFLEX's customers can whittle down the number of truckloads it uses to transport products.

I enjoy your blog, whittling away free time in the office reading about bombastic and amazing cuisine from the US and all over the world.

Specifically, the Columbus, Ohio - based manufacturer of high - quality plastic film has drawn great interest from Brook & Whittle through its EarthFirst line of films made from renewable resources.

«From Packstar's perspective, after having some due diligence performed, we learned the Brook & Whittle culture was very similar to our culture,» he says, adding that both companies» cultures were rooted in the values of customer service and technology - driven business development.

Aside from basic fruit and vegetable consumption, on the rise thanks to an increase in farmers markets and efforts to whittle down the number of food deserts in the U.S., nondairy milk is the leading plant - based category, and it's taking a toll on conventional dairy.

Hand blown glass bottles, whittle mold, spiral designed, petal bottom, ribbed, ridged, paneled, ornate, bell - shaped, square - ridged, and smaller colorful sample - size peppersauce bottles in this author's collection date from the 1840s - 1900s.

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.

It marked the 4th Week of Playoff action and in Six Games the remaining Teams were whittled down from 8 to the final 3 that will compete in Championship Sunday on Sunday May 15.

It can be a process to whittle your thoughts down from a conversation such as, «When you get the ball, look up, get up the field quickly and make a strong pass» to «look, go, pass.»

-- Jason Terry: The Jet At 40 (from Max Whittle, Give Me Sport): Read it here: https://www.givemesport.com/1297913-the-jet-at-40-jason-terry-has-found-the-secrets-to-basketball-longevity

True, Spieth had whittled his own lead down from five shots through nine holes to three with back - to - back bogeys on Nos. 10 and 11, but the shock heard «round Augusta came when he splashed first his tee shot and then his third strike into the brook.

The opening rounds run from now until 26 March, with the quarter - and semi-finals whittling the competition down further before the final on 26 May at the British World RX event at Silverstone.

The Lions whittled away at the lead in the second half, striking from long range, and trailed 63 - 61 after a Steven Haney 3 - pointer with seven minutes left.

After one week of play, the field has been whittled down from 64 to 16 teams.

Barca have taken just one point from their last three matches in the Spanish top flight, and their hefty lead at the top of the Spanish table has been whittled away to just three points.

Barcelona striker Luis Suárez has been omitted from Fifa's 23 - man list of contenders for the Ballon d'Or award.The list, which will be whittled down t -LRB-...)

«The Best Joke Ever: A Letter from Paul Tough on Whittling Down,» September 28, 2000 «Are there any books I just can't live without?

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!

When you're away from home, there's no other distractions that require your attention, so take advantage of that and try to whittle down that sleep deficit!

A preliminary review by the Election Commission whittled the number of valid signatures down from 3,800 to about 3,100.

30 shortlisted entries from a wide range of publications were whittled down to one winner and one runner up.

Helsmoortel is hoping that the town board can whittle the 2017 tax increase to somewhere in the two to three percent range, from where the «wish list» stands now, somewhere around 9 percent.

Also Tuesday, voters in the 7th Congressional District stretching from central to northern Wisconsin whittled down a field of candidates hoping to replace retiring Democratic Rep. David Obey.

The former president said he had restrained himself from commenting on governance issues after losing the presidential seat to the NPP's Nana Akufo - Addo, because he believed that every new government needed time to settle in office, but «it looks like NPP is whittling away its honeymoon period with the mistakes that it is doing.»

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:

The MTA, under pressure from Cuomo, has whittled its wish list from $ 29 billion to $ 26 billion, $ 16 billion of which it could finance with fares, federal aid and existing taxes and fees.

Announced last week by NASA, the three missions — whittled down from nine proposals — will receive $ 2 million each to develop a more detailed concept over the coming 9 months, before NASA selects one in 2019 to be the next mid-sized Explorer.

From this, they whittled the list down to six questions and 10 physical tests that included rubbing brushes, safety pins, tuning forks and pencil erasers on the back.

These insults have whittled their population down 90 percent of its level from 45 years ago and put the species on the critically endangered list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

«It's going to get whittled away from the margins.»

Judging from the rocks» small size and smooth texture, Marchant told me it would have taken the snow and wind millions of years to whittle them down.

Using clinical, genetic, and gene expression data as filters to distinguish genes whose copy number alteration causes cancer from those for whom copy number changes are incidental, the team whittled down their list from 14,000 to a more manageable number, each of which they systematically tested using genetic experiments in animals.

It's also been one of three agencies targeted for major increases as part of a proposed 10 - year doubling of federal support for the physical sciences, although Congress has whittled down the generous requests from the White House.