Sentences with phrase «whittled out»

I'm so impressed with all you have achieved this year Anne, and how you've whittled out the areas of your blogging life to reveal not only what inspires you but the areas that will take you forward with more effective use of your limited time after a full working week and 3 children!

The cut has been made so many of the amateur hackers have been whittled out and CBS understands there's an actual competition and conclusion to cover.

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.

Whittling Out Haiku Elizabeth Jackson, who teaches as Sweetwater (Texas) High School, submitted this week's lesson in which pictures inspire haiku writing and sharing.

And the unfortunate implication for Cox is that, as long as what you say apparently «fits» the «peer - reviewed scientific consensus», you can whittle out any nonsense you wish without incurring the wrath of the «scientists».

As long as you know how to sort the list based on this column, there's no reason you can whittle out the ones that don't fit the zoning classification you're looking for.

Not exact matches

After trying out, with what seemed to be everything on the planet, this list has been whittled down to what works.

After weeding out incompatible potential partners, the list was whittled down to 46.

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.

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.

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.

I'd spent the week before reworking all my usual talks for a younger audience, whittling them down to their essence, working in more stories and updating my illustrations, taking out any references to menstruation.

The doctrine produces outward Christian activity - an informal code on what is «Christian» life - style (the agreed points of which are nevertheless being whittled down with each passing year), Christian activity in and out of church, and a Christian empire with organs of entertainment, education, and political influence - but it does not necessarily produce Christians who are, at the roots of their being, Christian.

Peter Whittle pointed out in the September Standpoint magazine that «If faced with a group of gang members playing music unbearably loud in the car next to them at traffic lights I personally know of nobody - nobody, from Daily Telegraph reader toGuardian reader - who would risk asking them to turn it down... but it's not just the gang culture.»

I finally managed to whittle down my out - of - control nut butter stash to just 2 jars — 1 peanut, 1 almond (coconut butter and tahini don't count) but then my cupboard was looking a little bare so I had to restock again -LRB-!)

Take a head and body out of the fridge, and «glue» them together using melted candy coating (I used a sharp paring knife here to whittle away some of the excess coating around the bottom of the heads).

I'm looking for a nice, round number by having everyone pick out 10, but if were impossible to whittle their list down and someone wanted to give their top 12 or top 15 or top 22, I would allow that.

Anyways as the second half began to whittle down both Teams» PTPers came out in full force.

Now that makes 13 and even I have managed to work out we are only allowed seven so I might whittle this down to...

A state that should by all rights be controlled by Democrats is churning out policy whittled down and muted by a Republican Senate.

The Senate map was whittled down somewhat on Tuesday when Nassau County lawmaker David Dennenberg dropped his bid to run for an open seat after it was revealed in a lawsuit his former employers were accusing him of defrauding them out of $ 2 million.

And yet, somehow, each year, it's something that falls out of the budget when final priorities are whittled down in negotiations.

Losing out: Bin men could see their # 10,000 pensions cut to # 3,249 Teachers retiring on a final salary of # 50,000, who would normally receive a pension of # 25,000, would see this whittled down to little more than # 7,000.

The field was whittled down and, lo and behold, LP Ciminelli was selected for what turned out to be the SolarCity project at Riverbend.

Once World War II broke out, the British government fitted Whittle's jet engine to a war plane, whose maiden voyage was in 1941.

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

While you might pay attention to fiber for its waist - whittling and fulfilling effects, this nutrient is also extremely important in its struggle against cellulite, as it helps squeeze toxins out of fat cells.

But the 80 % can easily be whittled away if you slip up and order out because your house isn't stocked with good, healthy options.

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.

Sorry this is a rather photo heavy post, but I really couldn't whittle the number down, as I love how they turned out!

Dating sites have search functions of varying capability, allowing you to whittle down potential matches by weeding out those that don't fit your qualifications.

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.

So to help out, I have whittled them down to five and reviewed the most popular to hopefully shed some light on the fabulous world of online lesbian dating.

The best, funniest April Fools Day 2017 pranks on the web — check out everything from fake foods to Google's pretend apps Researchers scoured the web and examined more than 1,000 jokes (including ones from Tommy Cooper, pictured) before whittling them down to a final 50 on

This wouldn't be so bad if they had earned the right to beat you, but when you spend a lot of time slowly whittling them down through some clever strategizing, it feels undeserved to keep getting knocked out just for taking your time and being careful.

We'll have to wait until it's actually produced to find that out) that focuses on the intense world of three presidential debates, where millions of dollars and months of campaigning are whittled down to 270 minutes of extremely public political theatre.

They must quickly whittle the list down to something manageable, while figuring out: Is each teaching candidate truly the right fit?

But as the teams spread out across the Klondike, mushers whittle numbers down to an average of six dogs in order to increase speed on the open, fast tundra.

Russian Pavel Luksha, who is a leader in GEFF as we covered here in 2015, also turns out to be involved with Chris Whittle's new venture called the Whittle School, a global education venture.

While the report was quick to point out that 140 - character tweets and «conversations whittled down to emojis» may be the culprit, it's interesting to note that the option to download the full report from Microsoft came with two choices: download the entire report as a PDF or simply view this «whittled down» infographic of the data.

When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out.

He can hide the extraordinary things he whittles inside hollowed out tree trunks and locate them weeks, decades later.

-- I'll point out that a lot of the ideas Whittle had in the late 80s and 90s were extremely successful — he just didn't sustain that success because he was always onto the next great idea.

• If you've already whittled it down to Palm Pre vs. iPhone 3GS, check out our roundup of reviews and news stories for each: Pre vs. 3GS: How To Make the Right Decision.

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

But they do whittle down the amount of home equity that will be left for you or your heirs when you eventually die or move out.

Use this podcast simply for good ideas as well as for inspiration to keep whittling away at your financial goals, whether that's getting out of debt or socking away money for particular goals.

Thoroughly relaxed and with little motivation to do much else for the rest of the day, I made my way outside and up a set of stairs to the pool where I whittled away the rest of the afternoon under the desert sun having lunch and trying out a few cocktails, including the Arizona Fire & Ice, made with vodka, lemonade, prickly pear and jalapeno.

Second, a huge shout out to Norie Quintos and Charukesi Ramadurai, as well as to the World Nomads team, for helping to whittle the lot down to the best of the best.

Now eroded down to 6, these skinny buttes are courtesy the whittling effect of time and tide, carved out of the headlands to stand lone and huddled against the waves.