Sentences with phrase «of whittling»

Then came the work of whittling down the proposal to a scope that would be affordable for a town with a population barely topping 10,000.

And, yes, by Q4 of this year, the process of whittling partners will have begun as well.

«Pre-recorded» training contract interviews tend to be used in the early stages of the recruitment process as a means of whittling down the number of candidates.

Together they have the arduous task of whittling down the four to one winner.

Whether one considers these bold innovations or gimmicks by which to impress the art market, they had nothing to do with abstraction as such, with that ruthless subtractive process of whittling images down to their roots which so obsessed critics like Greenberg that they put it at the center of their story of what modern art even is.

With the ability to set cards face down in defence mode or summon face up in attack mode on the field with the aim of whittling the enemy's health points of eight thousand to zero.

Swalwell himself is in the process of whittling away at $ 100,000 in debt.

He is on form as Iron Man, three movies worth of whittling down the character and getting him right.

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.

Ibrahimovic will turn 35 in October and in his veteran years has become a slow - moving, spectacular artillery piece of a striker, capable of whittling away defences with his shooting and holding the ball up for teammates.

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.

The floral print down the sides gives the illusion of a whittled waist and accentuates my baby curves (which I LOVE).

Chris Whittle, the chairman of Whittle Communications, announces plans to spend more than $ 60 million over the next three years on research to develop a «new American school» model that will be the basis of a nationwide chain of for - profit private schools.

Carner contributes a new interactive sculpture comprised of whittled wood and digital screens live - streaming windows from chaturbate.com, a site in which individuals expose themselves via webcam for monetary «tips,» performing for unseen viewers who hold the authority to direct the scene.

Not exact matches

She found that half the of the ingredients of a typical multivitamin were superfluous, so she whittled Rituals» signature «Essential for Women» formula down to nine key nutrients most women are lacking: vitamin D3, B12, folate, vitamin K2 MK7, omega - 3s, vitamin E, magnesium, iron, and boron.

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.

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.

Among the financial commentariat, there's quite a bit of worry that the most important post-crisis regulations will be whittled away in the coming years, setting us up for another meltdown.

Although readers and sources identified dozens of words and phrases, we whittled the list to 10.

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.

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.

Overhead on these businesses is low, but any savings can be whittled away quickly by lack of business.

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.

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.

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.

Her insurance whittled the bills down to $ 2,361, most of which she had to pay herself because of her insurance plan.

'' [Private insurers] are willing to retain more of the risk when you have federal NFIP coverage in place,» Whittle says.

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.

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.

You must still be cognizant of the taxable implications of the surrender, but penalty - free withdrawals allow you to whittle the annuity down without getting slammed by an onerous surrender charge.

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.

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.

Although the McKeons did eventually whittle the number of stores down to nine, it was too little too late.

Of the more than 200 cities which applied to be chosen for «Amazon HQ2,» the ecommerce giant has now whittled the list down to 20 contenders: Toronto, Columbus, Indianapolis, Chicago, Denver, Nashville, Los Angeles, Dallas, Austin, Boston, New York City, Newark, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Montgomery County, Washington (D.C.), Raleigh, Northern Virginia, Atlanta and Miami.

(The World Series is scheduled to begin Oct. 24, after the current group of 10 playoff teams is whittled to two.)

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.

On Thursday, Amazon announced that it had a finally whittled the hundreds of cities vying to house its second headquarters to just 20.

In his classic book The Elements of Style, Professor William Strunk Jr. whittled down the art of powerful writing to a few basic rules.

A steady drop in the quality of the oil Venezuela exports, as well as default on payments to various refineries, have whittled away at whatever confidence was left in the Venezuelan government.

The share of Americans in collections has remained relatively constant, even as the country as a whole has whittled down the size of its credit card debt since the official end of the Great Recession in the middle of 2009.

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.

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.

It will take time to whittle down the tree of violent extremism.

And when I finally got a pocketknife, the first thing I set out to do was whittle a whole army of disciples carved out of soap.

«Usually for peeling an apple or whittling piece of alder.»)

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.

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.

It whittles down your spirit, a little at a time, until one day you realize it's not you going to church anymore, but some ghost of you, some cardboard cutout you send out to maintain the status quo, to keep up appearances.