Sentences with phrase «whittling down»

In fact, the line - up is so stellar that for the purposes of whittling down a manageable list of the films we're most anticipating, we made the decision to exclude anything that features in our Most Anticipated Toronto Internatioal Film Festival list just to narrow the field a little.

This wouldn't be so bad if they had earned the right to beat you, but when you spend a lot of time slowly whittling them down through some clever strategizing, it feels undeserved to keep getting knocked out just for taking your time and being careful.

That exam is the start of that process of brutal whittling down, hence the bracing sense of excitement — or is it, I wondered as the film reveals the low odds of securing a place that face aspiring film - makers, a kind of desperate hope?

The best, funniest April Fools Day 2017 pranks on the web — check out everything from fake foods to Google's pretend apps Researchers scoured the web and examined more than 1,000 jokes (including ones from Tommy Cooper, pictured) before whittling them down to a final 50 on

Over the next three years IAC streamlined, whittling down its assets to 23 businesses and more than 150 Web and media - related brands.

While you don't want to be too specific about the finer details and miss out on somebody great, if you know something just isn't your cup of tea, it's better to avoid it and speed up whittling down your search.

Online dating gives you access to date prospects but no easy mechanism for whittling down all those profiles to the right one for you.

In summary: Don't focus on whittling down your wardrobe to a fixed number of pieces.

That's because no one enjoys whittling down their possessions to what they «think» they'll need while away from home, and cramming it all in the tiny space of a suitcase.

Whittling it down to such a small number of things, means I can thrown my items into just about any bag, and even if I have it slung over one shoulder all day it's not going to wear me out.

So I joined a gym, and for the next nine months I worked on strength training, whittling down my weight to 138 pounds.

By whittling down the genes to this number, scientists learned a lot about biology.

Previous studies on budding yeast showed that whittling down the number of copies of ribosomal DNA created a genome that was very sensitive to DNA damage.

On the basis of the time that Earth's detectors received the signal, the teams triangulated the likely location of the source, whittling it down to a patch of sky that, as seen from Earth, appears about 300 times the size of the full Moon.

More importantly, the commission can not comprehend how the redefinition of the EFCC's mandate in narrow terms, ultimately whittling it down, fits into the clamour by Nigerians and the vision of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration for a vibrant and courageous anti-corruption agency.

But true reform should strike deeper, he said, and should include whittling down which services are funded through the tax rolls — including fire and highway departments.

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:

It would be a truly hopeful opening in state politics — if only something, anything, in Paterson had undergone in his professional life seemed like good preparation for whittling down a $ 6 billion deficit while his hands are tied by an obstreperous Legislature.

Le Pen, 45, has said she will concentrate on a return to French sovereignty and the whittling down of European Union power.

Contributing to the discussion, another legal practitioner Victor Kojogah Adawuducautioned against whittling down the demeanour of the convicted persons.

A more prevalent problem is simply whittling down recess time.

«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?

THE PRINCIPAL reason for Eaton's Salt Lake — to - Vegas flight is a speaking engagement where he will deliver a heartfelt, hourlong oration that he has spent the last four years whittling down and committing to memory.

After months of whittling down the players, the final 32 met in the Central Hall at Westminster in August to face - off against one another.

I wanted to make something that wouldn't require a trip to the grocery store, which made whittling down my options easy: no Buttermilk Pie or Bars because I didn't have cream to make a custard, no cakes because I don't own an electric mixer (no way I'm going to cream the butter and sugar by hand!)

U.S. meat, wine among Canada's targets in label fight: minister Canada is whittling down its list of U.S. products that it may hit with steep tariffs in retaliation against contentious meat - labeling laws, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said on Tuesday...

Waugh helped Merton prepare his masterpiece, The Seven Storey Mountain, for publication in England, whittling it down by several thousand words and improving the title, and Merton dedicated his historical work Waters of Siloe to Waugh.

I'd spent the week before reworking all my usual talks for a younger audience, whittling them down to their essence, working in more stories and updating my illustrations, taking out any references to menstruation.

Uber is whittling down the international markets it operates in so it can focus on core regions it feels like it can win.

Whittling down the meaning behind your message to its essentials — while avoiding shock value — will allow a prospective enterprise - level client to see the true nature of your company.

The list of Fed chair candidates has been whittled down, and over the past week two frontrunners have emerged: Fed governor Jerome Powell and Stanford economist John Taylor.

Earlier this year, the company whittled down its more than 70 different privacy agreements for all of its products to just one.

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.

After trying out, with what seemed to be everything on the planet, this list has been whittled down to what works.

After weeding out incompatible potential partners, the list was whittled down to 46.

The selection of the new BOJ leadership comes at a crucial time for Japanese and global markets, which have been rattled in recent weeks on expectations major central banks will whittle down their crisis - mode stimulus.

He added you should also «set aside any bonus money or tax refunds» to whittle down those balances.

«We ended up with almost 500 ideas, which were whittled down to about 50, and now they're down to about a dozen that we will focus on,» Jacob says.

Three weeks have passed since the application deadline, and 1,480 applicants have been whittled down to 85 of the strongest, whose stories Tisch is now presenting to the TechStars selection committee.

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.

Indeed, by analyzing a roster of competitive runners, Kilduff found that competitors running in a race with a rival whittled down their time by an average of five seconds per kilometers.

The Conservatives came to office in 2006 with a $ 13 - billion surplus but had whittled that down to a structural deficit even before the global recession struck in late 2008, according to the Parliamentary Budget Office.

Both suits have since been whittled down to workers in California.

If you're aiming for 700 or so words, then 30 minutes should be enough time for you to whittle down your thoughts into a first draft, providing there are no interruptions.

Nine days after we talked, the House came back with an omnibus appropriation that eliminated the loan subsidy and whittled down the salaries and expenses offered by the Senate.

To avoid losing a fortune of your money to taxes, you can whittle down your estate by gifting some of that money tax - free while you're alive.

It's similar to sculpture: Start with a material — in this case, steel — then whittle it down into the shape you need.

This could mean that the gap in the price of oil between two markets may rise to 0.4 percent rather than 0.3 percent before arbitragers whittle it down again.

Let's say you have a 5 - stage sales funnel with a 5:1 lead - to - deal ratio that gradually whittles down prospects to the final deals:

A judge has ordered Alphabet to whittle down its trade secret claims even further in its landmark lawsuit against Uber.