Sentences with phrase «cut it down at»

But then I did cut it down at a tree farm, so I helped the economy.

Mario also showed us a table full of young pepper plants that he cut down all at once, using large scissors.

Just two days after his incredulous response to the fescue being cut down at Erin Hills, Rory went out and repeatedly blasted drives off the planet and into the thick stuff.

When cutting down body fat, too sharp energy deficit will result in muscle loss and slowing of metabolism, while not enough deficit simply won't give any cut down at all.

It doesn't stop it completely but, I would say it has cut it down at least 90 %.

Indonesia's tropical forests are the second - largest in the world after Brazil, and are being logged and cut down at the same alarming speed.

I didn't try to cut him down at all.

I had some wood cut down at Home Depot, stained them, and added a command hook to make an interchangeable «frame» for the middle of this gallery wall.

After he had the wood cut down at Home Depot, he began nailing the wood into place.

We don't own a table saw so we had our large smooth sheet of wood cut down at Home Depot.

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The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

The option to work at home can also cut down on an unscheduled absence if employees are too sick to report to work but healthy enough to perform their duties.

Facing opposition from internet pioneers, online companies, members of Congress and the vast majority of Americans — all of whom are worried about broadband providers offering cut - down packages of services rather than the full internet — he released a jokey video scoffing at their dire predictions.

Users complain that they're tired of being talked down to, tired of being made to feel like idiots, tired of absurd rules, tired of machines that break, tired of IT support that cuts out at 5 p.m. — when they're expected to work around the clock.

To compensate for limited counter space, I have to sit down at our kitchen table to prep any food, and it's just far enough away from the stovetop to mean some food might fall off the cutting board and onto the ground en route.

Troupes could also use the tablets to hold Skype videoconferences with managers at company headquarters, which was likely to cut down emergency travel.

But the Target strategy is also likely to ease pressure on its margins by cutting down on overtime and general pay at a time when shoppers are scarce, the results of the «Black Friday» creep that has led many retailers to open their doors on Turkey Day and progressively bring up store opening times in the last decade.

(For SOL, this cuts down on returns — although those are accepted «at any time, for any reason.»)

Facebook has long recognized the issue and has been working at cutting down clickbait in people's newfeeds for years.

The reward option offers the TSA another avenue to find PreCheck participants — which will cut down waiting times at airport security — while the hospitality group will benefit by attracting and retaining loyalty members.

Trump's proposal seeks to cut corporate taxes down to between 15 % and 20 % from where they now sit at 35 %.

Speaking at the CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in Houston, Cornyn and Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski warned the taxes could hold back investments in oil and gas infrastructure, alienate allies and water down the benefits of tax cuts and deregulation.

You may think arriving late is a great way to cut down on the time you have to spend feeling uncomfortable at holiday parties, but Zack says arriving late sets introverts up for failure.

«When I made the difficult decision to cut expenses at Fab in mid-2013 I had essentially two options in front of me: keep growing at the pace we were growing and hope I could raise even more money down the road, or scale back and control our own destiny.

At its product event in March 2016, Apple unveiled its new «Night Shift» setting, which cuts down on the amount of blue light an iOS device is putting out during the evening hours.

If this doesn't enable you to avoid errors completely, it should at least help you cut down on posts that have the potential to damage your brand.

The University of North Carolina Tar Heels cut down the nets at last year's NCAA tournament, adding yet another title to the program's prestigious history.

But because it was a smaller loss than a year earlier, showing the shrinking retailer is at least cutting costs efficiently as its core business dwindles, shares went up 5 % though they remain down 70 % from their 52 - week highs.

Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association Vice President Gregg Hartley shares, «Quite frankly, investing time and money into a regular exercise routine will decrease sick days, reduce visits to the doctor and cut down on spending at the pharmacy.

Cutting down on meetings at the start of your week can be a good turbo - boost to the productivity you need.

Compressing the salary distribution up and down the line at Walmart could certainly raise pay for rank - and - file associates considerably, but it would mean forcing not just one boss but hundreds of highly paid subordinates to take pay cuts.

To eliminate the use of filled pauses at the beginning of a thought, or to cut down on your use of these words, Cohen recommends recruiting friends or family members to clap when you use a filler word so you can get into the habit of omitting them.

«What typically happens is that the pressure of business leads them to cut corners that they don't even know they're cutting at the time, and so that's where the discussion has to get down to.»

Then the inequality — the fact that so much of this is going to the people at the top — cuts the growth rate for the median income per person down from 0.8 to 0.4.

The fund maintained its forecast of 2012 economic growth at 3.5 percent, but it cut its forecast of growth in 2013 to 3.9 percent, down from the estimate of 4.1 percent it made in April.

Barring a major reversal of fortunes on Wall Street that would cut earnings sharply and hold down year - end bonuses, the financial services sector is expected to be a source of strength to the region's economy over the remainder of the year, consolidation and layoffs at some banks notwithstanding.

Now Mr. Levin's allies at government pension funds are joining the campaign to cut Mr. Dimon down to size.

Goldman cut its 2015 Brent price forecast to $ 53.70 a barrel from $ 58.20, and said it saw 2016 Brent prices at $ 49.50, down from its earlier $ 62 forecast.

Nevertheless I do worry that the fall in exports from a strong dollar is a bit stronger than the rise in exports from a weak dollar: I suspect because there is a hysteresis effect: Once a factory is shut down, it stays shut down — and if firms don't continuously invest to stay at the cutting edge of technology, it can be hard for a high - wage advanced economy to stay globally competitive.

On Monday, the stock was down sharply, however, after analysts at Robert W. Baird cut their rating because of concerns about increased content costs.

Additionally, policymakers had previously acknowledged rate cuts» ineffectiveness at pushing down term premium at the start of Great Recession, but «tantrum fears» had subsequently fueled «policy cognitive dissonance» to argue otherwise during policy normalization.

Well, using Personal Capital should cut down on all that aggregation I do manually, plus allow me to see at any time where I stand.

Under the B.C. Liberals, ferry ridership has fallen, fares have climbed, debt at the corporation has ballooned, the government has failed to curb exorbitant executive bonuses, and now people up and down the coast are facing devastating service cuts, said Trevena.

That same year, Exide reached an agreement with Texas officials to pay $ 20 million for improvements to its engineering systems at the Frisco plant to cut down on lead emissions.

The dollar is headed down and at the G - 20 meeting in London on September 4 - 5; the US will ask China and others to cut it more slack, because they can not now reverse the reversal of fortune.

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Names slowly emerged on Thursday, revealing that the bullets cut down victims apparently indiscriminately, including a student who had recently gotten into the state's flagship college, a senior who had just gained U.S. citizenship and a football coach who was working at his alma mater.

More commonly, as the business became more profitable and the owner begins making more money, he will leave wages where they are, but try to find a way to cut down on overhead adn production costs (potentially at a loss of worker salary or through layoffs when outsourcing is utilized), and will pocket the increased profits until the business is positioned well enough to be sold to a larger conglomoration for a substantial payout that NONE of the workers will see a dime of.

Jeffrey is in many ways a writer manqué: He makes up names for the nondescript twins at the Convergence to cut them down («They were the Stenmark twins.

The practical side of me says, «well at least a tree won't be cut down to make a box to bury him in and it's one less spot that can't be used for farmland because you can't plow over dead bodies (euw) and for those truly «green» at heart, this is ultimate recycling».