Sentences with phrase «start whittling»

During the year's busiest shopping season, we have a few suggestions to help you start whittling away at your holiday shopping list and give a helping hand to New York City's homeless animals!

Which could also be used to start whittling Inhofe's gas guzzler down to more traditional circus car proportions.

CHIP's Engel painted a dire situation for the industry if Democrats succeed in dismantling the IDC, saying that the party would quickly start whittling away at all the pro-business protections in place.

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.

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

As the underlying economy and baseline earnings level grew, the market slowly whittled its P / E back to levels associated with typical secular bull ends and secular bear starts.

Whittle the list down to 2 starting with Jack Wilshere who scores nothing and creates nothing.

«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.

Microbiologists were just starting to characterize the bacterial immune system that scientists would eventually co-opt and name CRISPR when Venter's team began its effort to whittle life down to its bare essentials.

Starting with 12 Kepler candidates believed to be small rocky worlds, the BLENDER analysis whittled them down to eight new exoplanets with radiuses smaller than 2.7 times Earth's, all believed to be in the habitable zone.

Online dating sites (or dating applications) make it easy to filter through the user base, enabling you to start off from your list of musts and then manually whittle down the results to only those who meet your highest criteria level.

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?

For sure, the Kia Optima does have its problems, and those advantages it does have are whittled away when you start looking at competitors that don't stray too far from the Kia's MSRPs.

When I first started writing, I figured revising a book was like sculpting: you'd start with a huge, misshapen lump of stone, and you'd whittle away at that stone until you had the equivalent of Michelangelo's David.

The jobless rate was 8.6 % at the start of 2012 but has been whittled down to 7.2 % by August 2013.

Once you have whittled your list down to five lenders, go back to their website and start making applications.

If you built a factor - based ETF, you would start with a market cap index, but whittle it down to only those stocks that qualify, then weight it equally or fundamentally, and build a fund around it.

You might want to start with two or three possible dates and whittle down the list as you identify conflicting events and verify availability of facilities and key personnel.

It all starts with 6 teams, which whittles down to the remaining two.

It also starts with 600 HP, giving it a fair bit of health for opponents to whittle away before it's defeated.

When someone's Hit Points are whittled away they can still be targeted by enemies, which will start to deplete their Life Points.

But it could be the start of a full reversal of fortunes for Xbox One, especially now that the manufacturer has whittled away the price gap.

The idea for this year's show started as a museum - worthy retrospective that Hammons whittled down to 33 works, which include a series of never - before - seen photographs.

That research is whittled down and the focus is pulled tighter on to certain themes, trends and references that we then start to work up, putting pen to paper and inking as many ideas as possible.

The field will be whittled down by an all - woman panel — a touch of Turner prize marketing flair, although the Northern has made a name for equal shares from the start.

A pocketknife is also a great gift idea for an older child in order to get them started with bush skills, whittling, and learning how to handle a blade safely.

It all starts with a massive 6 - inch screen that has whittled the bezels to an impossible 1.8 mm on three sides and 4.3 mm on the bottom.

Start with these questions and you'll soon whittle down which home assistant suits your household.

You first start with a gigantic pile of resumes that need to be whittled down to a dozen or two dozen candidates.

Once you understand that resume writing is not about writing literature and that interviews and career coaching aren't just about being passionate to help others, you start to whittle down which career services firms you want to work with.

Since it was a 10 year interest only, with principal & interest starting after the 10th year, we were going to whittle down the principal to a manageable amount when the 10 years were up.