Sentences with phrase «people cut down»

Our trees don't grow as fast as people cut them down.

Many people cut down one side of a large, plastic storage tub to get a larger box.

Every day, a new app or service arrives with the promise of helping people cut down on the flood of information they receive.

Launched to coincide with World Meat Free Day today, the Darwin Challenge app is available for free on Apple's App Store and is designed to help people cut down on their consumption by showing them the very real benefits to them and the planet.

A committee of MPs has recommended that people cut down on the amount of meat they eat to help increase food security in Britain and in poorer countries.

Meat Free Monday is not only effective at helping people cut down on their meat intake, but promotes healthier eating across the board, according to new research.

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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.

However, for 99 % of the people in business who need to hold the attention of the crowd, I'd cut that down to seven minutes.

We can cut down the waste of a person's life to try a medicine just because it was tried on average statistics over a very large number of people.

When Levy emails a high - demand person like a celebrity, he keeps his email down to a single sentence that cuts out any trace of filler.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Goldman Sachs Group Inc had to write down its loan to the troubled Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo SA in the fourth quarter, cutting the bank's profit and some employees» bonuses, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

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

von Borries and Stefano could easily cut down on their in - person appearances but they don't see them as superfluous; these are opportunities to demonstrate their passion to the audience.

As for Walmart, the service is likely to be an incentive for people to come into stores while also cutting down on the cost of returns shipping for the company.

If there is one person who is the embodiment of hair care in the United States, he's it,» says a buyer for one major retail chain, who has cut down the number of Clairol products he carries to create space for the Vidal Sassoon line.

«That fast response cuts down on the horrible lag time in which people typically rebuild in place.»

But Cohn says regular people should be excited about the plan, too, because the benefits from business tax cuts will «trickle down» to them.

Many people in the world's largest cities already live in tiny apartments, and one way to save on costs for a space similar to Hill's is to cut down on the number of alternatives needed, says Lloyd Alter, managing editor of Treehugger.

The company, majority owned by Walt Disney Co., has lost 3.2 million subscribers in a little over a year, according to Nielsen data, as people have «cut the cord» by dropping their cable - TV subscriptions or downgraded to cheaper, slimmed - down TV packages devoid of expensive sports channels like ESPN.

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 Democratic - aligned economist Austan Goolsbee says there's a wrinkle in the new tax package that might make those numbers even worse: the individual tax cuts are set to expire after several years, and along with other tax changes, could mean higher taxes down the road for many lower - and middle - income people.

The Chinese government wants to see more people drive EVs in the hope of cutting down on emission - related pollution — and government policies reflect that.

The gathering will also serve both as an incentive for hosts to keep using Airbnb and as a strategy to help cut down on the churn of people listing homes for rent once or twice without returning.

How can smart people with young children not see that they are cutting down the last trees on Easter Island?

In the past year, Beijing has shut down a handful of popular live - streaming apps, passed a law that forces foreign companies to store data in China, closed trading on its largest Bitcoin exchanges, and cut access to tools that help people access Facebook, Google, and other blocked services.

Ostensibly, it was to cut down on the black market economy and tax cheats, but it also wiped out a large percentage of the wealth of the poorest people, who...

In recent time, loads of people are becoming aware of the need to cut down on carbonated drinks and drink more of juice because of its enormous health benefits and this is why mobile juice trucks can be found in different locations all around major cities in the United States.

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.

If sales management and senior executives are suspicious about social media — if they only see risk, their people wasting time clicking «Like» buttons and employees posting funny pictures, then they would be right to draw down the shutters and, in the process, cut off the opportunity social media presents.

«This person told this unnamed person about what they hear this person saw, and so I wrote it down, but you won't know who I am either» just doesn't cut it, Chad when it comes to supernatural claims.

Just because Jesus did not agree with people's lifestyles, does not mean that he hated them or cut them down.

yeah your right, his stance on equality sure makes me want to vote for an out of touch bully who thinks holding people down and cutting off their hair is «just a prank»,.

I'd like to have a president who doesn't keep his money in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.I'd like to have a president who knows more people are on food stamps today because tax cuts for the rich did not create jobs and caused this country to go down the drain.

From Romney on down these people want to cut and gut all programs that people need to help their families.

And as the minority in Crystal Springs has shown us, we already have enough blatantly bigoted people in existence; we don't need any more racists masquerading as social problem solvers while they themselves cut down an entire group of people.

So also the Hebrew prophets, demanding that the sacred groves be cut down, and the people of God reject all rival gods.

Why don't people realize that the Bible as we know it was heavily edited, cut down and added to by the college of cardinals in the 6th century?

So you may have started out even bearing good fruit as a Christian, but if you fall away and start bearing bad fruit, you will be cut down and lose your salvation, unless you think there is a special fire for people like that in heaven.

But these types of death bother us because an actual person who was capable of receiving violence or who actually had hopes for the future (hopes which existed in the present) was cut down.

President Obama is trying to cut down / end abortions by making as many birth control options available so people will have ZERO excuses.

Bro, put even 10 percent of your efforts, and all you other readers as well, just 10 percent of effort towards cutting down death in the media in entertainment form and you will do FAR MORE than by taking away guns from the people.

It's a good option for people trying to cut down on the cost.

The checkout lines were down the aisles, people bumped into you, reached over you, cut in front of you... basically, it was an experience I never want to have again — and haven't because even to this day I swear off entering grocery stores this week.

I avoid processed fats, like margarine or canola oil, but whole fats from olives, avocados, coconuts, seeds, nuts, and humanely raised animals (butter, lard, suet, schmaltz) are a necessary part of the diet, and lead to feeling full in ways that allow people to cut down on sugar (which is less healthy, as you say).

Cut goat cheese down the middle to make 2 slices (1 per person).

People are realizing they need to cut down on animal meat eating for their own health and that of the planet, and that there is no excuse not to cut down, given all the delicious meat alternatives on the market, with much more to come.»

The pork is hickory smoked for 10 hours, but since we're impatient hungry people here, we'll cut that cooking time down to under 4 hours using a covered grill and carefully arranged charcoal.

I have heard of people getting the box hot and treating the outside with oil, but I have not seen the results myself and was wondering if you know the best route to go to try and cut down on the rust.

I am also going to try my 1st add - ins — cinnamon, walnuts and raisins...... yummmmm... I am so happy so far with the taste tho — the 1st loaf was to be for dinner — I cut it to give «little» tastes to all present, and had a line of demanding people down the hall, looking for more — it was pretty funny — my poor husband comes in looking for more, and gets yelled at for not waiting for dinner!!

More and more people are questioning the ethical, health and evironmental impact of animal products and are either cutting them out or cutting down on their consumption.