Sentences with phrase «about whittling»

It's not too challenging, and you can't catch it here so there's no need to worry about whittling it down slowly.

It's also not about whittling your story down to fit the word count guidelines for your genre.

Not exact matches

«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.

Ever since Apple introduced Touch ID in 2013, privacy law experts have been sounding the alarm about the way biometrics can whittle away at your right against self - incrimination.

But there are limits to the federal insurance, of about $ 500,000 for damage to structure and $ 500,000 for damages to property inside the structure, says James J. Whittle, Assistant General Counsel & Chief Claims Counsel, for the American Insurance Association.

We pay $ 2500 each month in loans plus we add about 1/3 of any bonus money towards the loans, and have slowly started the whittle them down over the last 2 years.

You can read about Oakmark Select's new co-managers in its shareholder report, and Clyde will discuss his decision at some point after he whittles down his list.

It's about time the men stop discriminating against women, stop abusing little boys, and whittle down Canon Law so it makes sense.

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!

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.

The other thing you'll really love about this is she's whittled it down to the fastest and easiest steps possible.

As the half whittled down to just about a dozen minutes Team ZBT began to drive..

I recently whittled down my stash since some of my diapers have seen better days:) And to tell you something about The Butterfly Affect website, she has a ton of giveaways and I am really interested in the books she mentions on March 25th.

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

It wasn't until about month 3 or 4 of daycare that I realized these women were helping not only take care of my son but, of me, too; their advice quieted my endlessly running mind and seeing my son thrive helped whittle away my feelings of guilt.

Of course, the Legislature will have its own ideas about how to spend that one - time surplus, and will surely try to either whittle down Cuomo's grand prizes or swap them for something of interest to our downstate brethren.

As Mr. Rangel's lead whittled down to just 802 votes over the weekend, the Espaillat campaign hired election law guru Marty Connor and promoted a hotline available for voters to register complaints about Election Day shenanigans.

Gage said that he whittled down a list of 29 possible witnesses, which had included a deceased former state senator, to about five.

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:

«Initially when I started reading about the referendum it seemed very clear that we as a host community were going to have a yay or nay vote about whether or not a casino would be sited here, and as I just heard the answers in this meeting this evening, that's clearly not the case,» said Whittle.

With Mr. Bishop up consistently by about 250 votes during the count of 11,500 absentee ballots, and the number of contested ballots being whittled down by the day — through either concessions or a judge's orders — it became clear that Mr. Altschuler's chances for a turnaround were fading.

What we do is whittle out the relative likelihood of each of these outcomes so we can make a value judgment about whether or not the risks are adequate to move forward.

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.

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

To learn more about how spices can play a role in weight loss, check out our article 3 Spices That Can Whittle Your Middle.

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.

Paule Ka coat, H&M dress, Lauren Cecchi bag, Adidas sneakers, Céline sunglasses The thing I love most about major cities and having to walk everywhere is «whittling» your outfit down to just the essentials: what's comfortable and what's practical.

So I made a little video about how I whittled down from Many Items to Fewer, More Practical, Items.

After this post, I had about 15 things in my cart, but couldn't afford all of it, so I whittled it down & ended up ordering the Mila Broderie top.

With this year's batch of Apprentice hopefuls whittled down to the two finalists, we take a look at what they've inadvertently taught us about the business of dating.

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.

When Judy and Peter track down Sarah Whittle (Bonnie Hunt), in the hopes of more information about the game, they find the grown woman is still suffering from the events of her childhood.

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.

Such was the diversity of films released in the UK in 2015 that I struggled to whittle down a longlist of about 30 contenders into a top 10 with which I was, if not happy, then at least content.

READINGS Books about all aspects of filmmaking and film culture The Face on Film by Noa Steimatsky, reviewed by Michael Joshua Rowin; Jean Renoir: A Biography by Pascal Mérigeau, translated by Bruce Benderson, reviewed by Maddie Whittle; The Art of Selling Movies by John McElwee, reviewed by Justin Stewart

And then I collated about 150 titles, tried to whittle that list down to 50, and nearly went insane at least three times.

Burt, in particular, is excited about the baby's arrival and takes up whittling because he believes that that is what good fathers do.

Her introductory tape was one of about 200 submissions from the U.K., Australia, and the U.S. that Haynes whittled down to 20 — and trimmed even further after Selznick discovered that four girls had lied about their hearing loss.

In this book, Whittle distills the lessons he has learned about K — 12 education and the changes it needs, lessons that he presents with self - assuredness and passion.

A recent Atlantic article called «The First Year of Teaching Can Feel Like a Fraternity Hazing» talks about how new teachers often skip meals and whittle their personal lives down to nearly nothing in an effort to stay above water, and yet many still struggle with effectiveness.

A scarred veteran of the entrepreneurial trenches with many vivid stories to recount in private, Whittle has learned to eschew confrontation and employ feel - good rhetoric, even writing in an open letter to union leaders, «Though teachers are your primary constituency, I know that your organizations care deeply about children, too.»

«There's a very typical CPS pattern here, which is that Claypool makes a scary pronouncement about 5,000 teachers being laid off in November then over several months that number is whittled down,» Sharkey said.

You can play this wishing game with just about any set of three wishes, and it almost always whittles down 100 possible options to just about no options.

With school funding constantly hanging precariously on the edge of being whittled down to nothing, schools have had to become very creative about how they still maintain a minimum standard of academic excellence while also preparing students to be 21st century learners.

The Whittle Larger Agenda Series: Thanks to the New York Times new «free - the - archives» policy, I can magically point back to some of their stories from the late 80s and early 90s about Chris Whittle's success at single - sponsor advertising - supported books.

* A couple of years ago, I blogged about advertising - supported books, including a late 1980s project called the Larger Agenda Series from Whittle Communications.

No wonder there's so much advice out there about finding (perfectly legal) ways to whittle down your adjusted gross income.

They use quantitative screens for creditworthiness and portfolio risk to whittle that down to about 150 investment candidates.

Learn about what goes into your closing costs — and, even more important, how to whittle them down to size.

Repeated each year, this gives Betsy the opportunity to significantly whittle down her overall IRA exposure; in fact at this pace, her pre-tax IRA will still only be about $ 900,000 by the time her RMDs begin, which will produce RMDs of barely $ 35,000, allowing her to remain in the 25 % tax bracket!