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"They are being whittled down to almost nothing," says Kahler.
Because those 500 people have been whittled down to three.
But that figure was eventually whittled down to $5 million.
This is whittled down to a shortlist of around 20193.
Our screen whittled down the 1,500 companies to just 19.
I didn't have to be whittled down with my skin showing.
The search was then whittled down even further to four individuals.
Class sizes had been whittled down to a maximum of 25.
So I whittled down slivers of Ambien and stayed on course.
The Microsoft co-founder whittled down his favorites to 13 essentials.
It got whittled down to three; now it's down to one.
In the process, the scope of the original charges was whittled down.
Over 2,600 submissions were whittled down to 35 semifinalists from 17 countries.
So, she's whittled down the beauty products that work best for her.
They've whittled down the stack of items that people don't agree on.
Over several months, the agency whittled down its objections to 168 passages.
Over the decades that support has been whittled down to eight months.
Without an anchoring principle, most of them are likely to be whittled down.
She underwent three surgeries and her weight whittled down to just 80 lbs.
Most recently, the verdict had been whittled down to $539 million for Apple.
As chains liquidate or restructure, their store footprints are eliminated or whittled down.
According to the Constitution Center, that list had been whittled down from 19.
The U.S. industry dislikes the measures and wants to see them whittled down.
After over 200 companies applied, the list was whittled down to five companies.
The list was eventually whittled down to two: Henry Bacon and John Russell Pope.
Hopefully, we're whittled down from the kind of 776 candidates who are currently running.
Now, the online world of Santa has been whittled down to tight-knit communities.
The GOP's edge with the over-65s was whittled down to just 2 points.
"The family aspect of the community is really being whittled down," Ms. Cuderman said.
Behaviors listed were whittled down and distributed the survey to additional groups of managers.
Ted Cruz supported and then abandoned, has been whittled down and allowed to languish.
I've whittled down the objects that I can readily access to the bare essentials.
However, after a poor campaign, the Conservative lead has been whittled down to single figures.
The autonomy they were promised in the republic's earliest years had already been whittled down.
She whittled down her possessions and rented a small bungalow by a creek in Montecito.
The major TV networks have closed their offices, and newspapers have whittled down their staffs.
As they whittled down the contenders, the team was surprised by the amount of agreement.
Meanwhile, we're told the new batch of potential hosts has been whittled down to 25.
The process whittled down the finalists over several rounds, ultimately resulting in the final two projects.
In early January, those 21 were whittled down to a shortlist of eight, according to Politico.
Proponents of the bill had to make many concessions and the legislation was considerably whittled down.
It produced 761 possible candidates, which humans examined and whittled down to a selection of 56.
As more negative Brexit-related headlines have emerged, investors have whittled down long positions in sterling.
We've whittled down your buying choices to just those options that really deserve a second look.
That list was eventually whittled down to just 18 – and I was amongst the lucky ones.
The Secret Service whittled down the list of available options for security reasons, and then Mrs.
To Linda, the American dream has been whittled down to self-sufficiency and the open road.
Some 2130,913 images were whittled down to 291,22013 that showed faces clearly and met certain criteria.
Over three days of competitive play, that field of 400 has been whittled down to two.
The universal basic income program in Finland is being whittled down before it even properly begins.
"Typically by now we see it whittled down to three folks," said Price, the party chairman.
That deal was whittled down by regulators to a purchase of 20153,932 stores for $4.37 billion.
The group was further whittled down this week after three candidates, including the once hopeful Sen.
She says it's easier to keep those things top of mind when the list is whittled down.
It whittled down an initial list of 238 cities and metropolitan regions, naming 20 finalists in January.
Originally Zume filled the trucks with 56 ovens, but with Welbilt, they've whittled down the heavy equipment.
If the deal goes ahead, it'll be the second time that MSG will have been whittled down.
With that in mind, we whittled down Patagonia's vast amount of possibilities to five must-see destinations.
The ascent stage had started off as a sphere, then been whittled down, then been added to.
Pundits have wondered when the race for the GOP nomination would be whittled down to two candidates.
This "book" also has some of life's most concerning thoughts, whittled down into 140 characters or less.
A year after launching, the IBM Watson-sponsored AI XPrize has been whittled down to 59 teams.
Spain has whittled down the deficit since a financial crisis, after the PP wielded deep spending cuts.
That number was whittled down over several stages until AlMansoori and AlNeyadi, were handpicked from that group.
Musk slowly whittled down variations in the manufacturing process, whether it was paint colors, trims, or battery configurations.
Over the years, the record for solving the cube has been gradually whittled down to near-superhuman speeds.
In some states, though, that guarantee has been whittled down from a constitutional right to a mere concept.
Eventually, the heart is whittled down to a flimsy wad of scar tissue and that's basically the end.
The group has been whittled down to 26 from the 231,000 people who received jury summonses, WACH reported.
The prosecutor, who declined to give his name, said authorities had also whittled down possible motives to two.
Chevron's expected profits of $4.61 in 2017 have now been whittled down to $4.42, and are still dropping.
Surprisingly, once I whittled down my Instagram stalking, my favorite app suddenly started to feel like a chore.
He eliminated almost 90 administrative positions and whittled down the number of departments in the district's central office.
These were whittled down to the main three metrics: trick-or-treater friendliness, Halloween fun, and Halloween weather.
As Clinton whittled down her running mate shortlist, though, I prayed not for myself, but for the country.
Ponder why Obamacare is being so relentlessly whittled down by Republican governors, the courts and the Trump administration.
" Unfortunately, he says "the empowerment zone program eventually got whittled down until it was just some tax breaks.
Officials had now whittled down the number of potential license plates and began tailing a handful of people.
We watch as the core lineup of the original Temptations is whittled down to the last man standing.
The list is whittled down to about two dozen choices, and a citizens' committee makes the final selections.
In bankruptcy, Barneys has whittled down its size from more than 10 of its namesake stores to five.
That process whittled down the initial sample of 2,172 to 283 people with an average age of 77.
Oklahoma City gradually whittled down the difference, and Westbrook's jumper made it 22-2101 with 299:25.0 remaining.
By the end of the game, Boettcher had whittled down Holzhauer's big early lead, but not by enough.
But the longer the series ran, the more its core cast whittled down to a handful of characters.
It has been whittled down to the latest sound bite, the most recent photo, the craziest 140-character retweet.
Sacramento whittled down the Jazz lead before halftime after ripping off 10 unanswered points late in the second quarter.
In other words, the moviegoing options available to subscribers at this point has been whittled down to almost nothing.
But the conservative Tax Foundation forecast $10 trillion in higher deficits, and the plan has been whittled down since.
Even with humanity's numbers whittled down, all those years spent in orbit have left breathable air in short supply.
Investors also have warmed to the company as it has cut operating costs and expenses and whittled down debt.
Are the basic nude shades whittled down to nothing, while any remotely fun or colorful ones look basically untouched?
If the deal goes ahead, it will be the second time that Madison Square Garden has been whittled down.
Eventually, the team whittled down the book into a 90-minute presentation consisting of 21 excerpts from the book.
The field of 32 teams will then gradually be whittled down until a champion is crowned on July 15.
It has also whittled down the number of markets where it operates to the four it's active in today.
Right now, we have a flow that's whittled down to between 300 and 350 hours to train a pilot.
Searching for schools on Google and looking at suggestions from his school, Mr. Lamb gradually whittled down his list.
That group started with a long list of demands but ultimately whittled down the list to two nonnegotiable proposals.
Best of all, the reverse can be done where details within the card can be whittled down to almost none.
At the same time, the bank whittled down its "bad bank" of unwanted assets and sold of a number units.
Experts in archaeology, architecture and art whittled down the 2018 list from over 170 nominations by citizens, activists and governments.
As Abercrombie and its competitors whittled down their store bases, H&M's footprint swelled to more than 4,000 locations globally.
Fourth, the list of seven banned countries has been whittled down to six: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The selection committee, which whittled down a previous list of 25 players, will decide the class of 2016 on Feb.
In recent weeks, the company whittled down hundreds of entrants to three men vying for the single Super Bowl spot.
Instead of $15 mil, she eventually struck a deal for $750k ... and that has now been whittled down to $250k.
Williams said he expects the balance sheet, which peaked above $4.5 trillion, to get whittled down to about $3 trillion.
Her thousands of supposedly amazing game concepts would soon be whittled down to a handful of decent semi-promising ones.
The process of combing through millions of pieces of data is whittled down from days to minutes, the company says.
We whittled down the contenders and landed on two finalists who were at opposite ends of the money management spectrum.
Of course, that number was eventually whittled down to 20 per the trailer, so it's unknown who made the cut.
Robert Menendez sees his once dominant lead whittled down to single digits, New Jersey voters are sending a clear message.
A whittled-down field of 10 Democratic presidential primary candidates gathers in Houston for a three-hour political wrestling match.
More than 40 different taxes could be whittled down to a dozen, making it easier for entrepreneurs to launch new companies.
The school has whittled down thousands of applicants to a few dozen graduates who will stand against LDP candidates in July.
The voting will continue until the list is whittled down to two, whom the party's 160,000 members will then choose between.
Under Trump's those tax brackets would be whittled down to three, with rates of 12 percent, 25 percent and 33 percent.
After over a week of voting, readers across the Internet have whittled down the original 32 competitors to the final two.
With March Madness in full swing this month, it is due to be whittled down to the elite eight on Friday.
Every lyric, harmony, anecdote, chord change, and repetition on his records seems to have been considered and whittled down with precision.
This year's winners were chosen from a pool of 4,000 entries from 68 different countries and whittled down to 40 finalists.
Currently, UBS analysts estimate that the reinsurance industry has excess capital, but this could be whittled down by natural catastrophe losses.
The convoy was whittled down to 11 vehicles when six returned to Syrian government territory in western Syria, coalition officials said.
But Wade eventually conceded and whittled down his collection to just one car: "a modest Audi Q8," he told Men's Health.
Today, America's mighty leverage has been whittled down to extracting a promise from the Taliban that they will not harbor terrorists.
In April, Trier's City Council gave final approval to the gift but whittled down its size by more than two feet.
The 25 eligible drivers have been whittled down from a field of 66,000 hopefuls who entered online earlier in the year.
Delete, delete, delete, UNSUBSCRIBE … As my inbox counter was whittled down by the hundreds, I felt a bit more at ease.
Late Thursday, the field was whittled down to just two, Ananya, 12, and Rohan Rajeev, a 14-year-old from Oklahoma.
Woodman was named in a 22-player squad for the Olympics on Wednesday which will eventually be whittled down to 12.
A steady trickle of news reports suggest that his list of contenders has been whittled down to three or four candidates.
While the IRS initially requested data on all of the company's account holders, that number has since been whittled down to 14,355.
Then the number of those jobs and their expected pay is whittled down until the duped city is left footing the bill.
That has whittled down the A-share premium over H-shares to 14 percent, compared with about 35 percent a year ago.
This process was repeated until no more genes could be disrupted, and the genome was whittled down to the smallest size possible.
Against other countries, yield differentials that were extraordinary have been whittled down from all-time or decade-long highs to cycle lows.
The world record was gradually being whittled down and a number of athletes were considered capable of crashing the four-minute barrier.
A lead that was as large as 27 at one point was whittled down to single digits late in the second half.
After two weeks of March Madness, the 68 men's teams playing in the college basketball tournament have been whittled down to four.
Three years in the making, it was whittled down from 40,000 images created over a career that lasted more than 19703 years.
Amazon has whittled down the list of finalists for its second headquarters to 23 metro areas, from a pool of 238 proposals.
Her husband timed her delivery, as she whittled down the speech from 15 minutes to 10 minutes and finalized it Monday morning.
Using a new generation of instruments like the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have steadily whittled down the uncertainty in the Hubble constant.
In the roughly 25 years since the last hike, inflation has whittled down the buying power of dollars raised through the tax.
If you've already whittled down your leftovers and just have a wee bit left, dice it and add to this cozy stew.
In months of negotiations, a package of sweeping criminal justice reforms was whittled down and some new mandatory sentences were grafted on.
Below we've whittled down some of the most intriguing vinyl-focused accounts that creatively feature one of the world's original music mediums.
They will be whittled down by their fellow lawmakers to a final two before the grassroots party members make the final choice.
For a daring take, glue some whittled down sticks on your finger nails—you'll definitely be the talk of every party you hit.
Eventually the project was whittled down to just Silva, who relocated to LA. He's gotten acclaim, and was featured on the Nerdist podcast.
Money markets have whittled down the odds of an interest rate hike from the European Central Bank by June 2019 to 75 percent.
In the finals of OGN's first season of Overwatch Apex on Saturday morning, the competition had been whittled down to Team EnVyUs vs.
Deregulation also led to the shrinking of seats, which have been whittled down over the years from 22016 to just 275 inches wide.
Instead, as commanders fight, their forces are steadily whittled down, so you can see their strength by the number of soldiers still alive.
Don't be surprised if that "Final 20" gets whittled down again, in order to create another positive press cycle before the big reveal.
Economists have steadily whittled down their estimates for the first quarter of 2016, which is barely expected to register any growth at all.
Judge Stolz further whittled down the case by dismissing some of the most serious grand larceny charges against Mr. DiCarmine and Mr. Sanders.
And by the end of the first day of early in-person voting, that GOP advantage had been whittled down to 21625 percent.
Whittled down from an initial field of 133 contestants, the final eight went for 20 straight rounds of spelling words without any errors.
First they whittled down the records, looking for cases where the people named as emergency contacts had been patients at the same institution.
Then, the 500 entries with the most votes will be whittled down by an "independent panel of judges," who will select three finalists.
Long bets on sterling have been whittled down in recent days with overall net positions mildly bearish on the currency, positioning data shows.
What was a 48-point gap in March of last year has been whittled down to just a nine-point lead over Trump.
From one of the most competitive candidate pools in recent history, Republicans have whittled down their candidate list to just one: Donald Trump.
In today's pop culture, 15 minutes of fame have been whittled down to a momentary blip on Twitter and the frenzied media cycle.
The party's base, according to Tesler, is increasingly being whittled down to people who hold anti-black, anti-Hispanic, and anti-Muslim prejudices.
The upshot is the Senate GOP's robust anti-Trump wing from four years ago has been whittled down to a handful of Maybe Trumpers.
A large delegation of officials was whittled down before lunch to six people — three South Koreans and three North Koreans, including Mr. Kim's sister.
Unlike my shoe boxes — which are curated; their contents whittled down to a few, choice items — my old phone was an inadvertent time capsule.
As they cut the album, the group came up with more than 30 ideas, according to Droste, which they've whittled down to 11 tracks.
As Miles Teller whittled down his body to portray boxer Vinnie Pazienza in Bleed for This, he started to harshly critique how he looked.
Olin College, an engineering school in Massachusetts, has whittled down its offerings to just three majors — specializations much wider in scope than typical programs.
The field will be whittled down to two by the party's lawmakers over the summer, before party members pick the winner by Sept. 9.
With March Madness in full swing, the initial field of 68 teams is due to be whittled down to just the elite eight teams.
For many, the effort was about reclaiming a stake in ancestral lands that had been whittled down since the 1800s, treaty by broken treaty.
Following Super Tuesday, a once-crowded presidential race whittled down to just a handful of Democratic candidates: former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen.
This year's finalists, whittled down from a pool of 403,800 entrants, all received $25,000 awards, and are now competing for prizes up to $250,000.
Some had been invited to do so, but they too had to be interviewed as organizers whittled down the number to 14 accepted debutantes.
As the hiring team whittled down to the top 20, and eventually the top four, candidates, Didorosi remained among the frontrunners for the job. 
Over the next decade, the company was slowly whittled down, with many of its divisions and brands sold off, Borden said in the filing.
The field will be whittled down to two by the party's lawmakers over the summer, before party members pick the winner by September 9.
Connect the dots and here's what you find: In two weeks, the conference title race will be whittled down to two or fewer teams.
Positioning indicators are more favourable towards sterling, as long bets have been whittled down in recent days with overall net positions mildly bearish on sterling.
These activities are exactly what they sound like: hundreds and hundreds of Freakers that need to be slowly, methodically whittled down until they're all gone.
There will be a second reception hosted by Harry's dad Prince Charles at Frogmore House where the guest list will be whittled down to 200.
As AIDS treatments and pre-exposure prophylaxis pills have whittled down HIV's death toll, rates of sexually transmitted diseases that aren't HIV steadily climbed upward.
More than 0003 companies were nominated for inclusion, which was whittled down to the final list based on criteria such as growth, transparency, and innovation.
Wall Street still expects Washington to come up with some type of whittled down tax bill, with simple tax cuts more likely than tax reform.
Now that the Democratic primary field has been whittled down to two major candidates, the race is on for targeting a coveted constituency: LGBTQ voters.
Lilli earns some sharper comebacks in this version, and Fred's hulking demeanor is whittled down enough until he becomes a teasing thorn in her side.
Over the course of the hour, the competition is whittled down to two contestants, and the bachelor or bachelorette offers a "romantic proposal" to one.
The legislation passed unanimously in the House, but in the Senate, the language was whittled down and the legislative session ended without the bill passing.
I joke about my financially savvy son suing me one day for financial malpractice after combing through the records of our nest egg whittled down.
The slogan refers to the thousands of players who enter U.S. Open qualifying each year before the number is eventually whittled down to the champion.
The list was whittled down to five conditions that the medical board took seriously, including anxiety, autism spectrum disorder, depression, insomnia, and opioid use disorder.
I&aposd whittled down my workload to part-time before setting off to Europe so that I could enjoy our once-in-a-lifetime trip.
In any case, tax cuts and infrastructure spending plans are likely to be whittled down in Congress, especially if deficit hawks return to the fore.
The debate field was whittled down to 10 candidates because the presidential hopefuls had to reach polling and fundraising benchmarks to quality (and many didn't).
An initial shortlist of locations had been whittled down to two — Brussels and Luxembourg — with the insurance market's council making the final decision on Wednesday.
While there are different flows in the labor market, the overall change in the labor force each month is whittled down to entries minus exits.
Strong winds again whipped up the snow on the course as the field was whittled down from 68 starters to the six who contested the final.
As for the pitch-off, I have to say this is a particularly strong group of contenders, whittled down from a particularly large number of applicants.
Then comes a ten-month editing period, during which, in the case of "Mascots", 150 hours of footage are whittled down to a 90-minute film.
That was whittled down to 120 pod designs evaluated in early 2016, and of those, 30 were selected to come to the test track this weekend.
Weeks of qualifier matches have whittled down dozens of North American Overwatch teams and dozens more European teams to the top four teams from each continent.
The N.C.A.A. men's hockey tournament was whittled down to the final four teams last week, but some of most furious action occurred after teams were eliminated.
Dealers said that number was probably inflated by the quarter-end, when the availability of dollars on the market shrinks as balance sheets are whittled down.
Nearly 11,000 initial designs were whittled down to a final two after a panel shortlist of 40 was then put through a two stage public referendum.
Using this and other tricks, the team gradually whittled down the number of genes their synthetic bacteria needed, and thereby produced an intermediate with 512 genes.
Instead of transforming cash handling business Loomis early on as countries like Sweden moved towards being cashless, MSAB whittled down its holding in March this year.
The Crusaders sliced into Maryland's double-figure lead and had it whittled down to 52-45 when Lowder hit a layup with 17:212 to play.
"Wajib" is jostling for a place on a shortlist of nine features; a list whittled down to five when the nominations are announced on January 23.
The shortlist will be whittled down to a final class of five in December after votes are submitted by a group of historians and industry folk.
Of the 25 finalists whittled down from an initial 250 applicants, none came from Saudi Arabia, which hosted its inaugural fashion week in Riyadh last year.
As the pool was whittled down to 12 jurors, each side could use up to seven peremptory challenges to eliminate potential jurors without offering a reason.
Baehny told reporters his shortlist of CEO candidates has been whittled down to six people, all from outside the company, with final interviews to begin soon.
Baehny told reporters his shortlist of CEO candidates has been whittled down to six people, all from outside the company, with final interviews to begin soon.
We've whittled down the group of 20 startups that have presented onstage for our judges, and we're proud to announce the winner of TechCrunch Battlefield Tokyo 2018.
He also whittled down to a more granular level, looking at the crime rates in counties in Medicaid expansion states that saw the biggest increases in coverage.
We've whittled down the choice to 12 stand out favourites in a number of countries across the continent so pick your favourite and get those flights booked.
Binding acquisition offers are due in the next two weeks, and Twitter has already whittled down the field of potential acquirers, the people said this week. Salesforce.
Stocks of gasoline have been whittled down substantially in recent weeks from a large summer surplus, and now sit at 2000 million barrels, according to the EIA.
This was boiled down to 320 applications, which was again whittled down to 90, with Publicis Groupe employee submissions amounting to 20 percent of the total shortlist.
China's factories will pick up the pace once inventories have been whittled down as farmers seek more meal to fatten herds ahead of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
According to multiple reports the selection committee, which included Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Love, whittled down their list for captain to either Furyk or Fred Couples.
According to Line, there were more than 180 submissions, but the selections were whittled down to 40 by Junichi Masuda, general manager of game developer, Game Freak.
The Lord whittled down Gideon's army from tens of thousands to only 300 to ensure all the glory went to God and not the army of men.
The entrants were whittled down to a list of 29 ensembles that participated in the semifinal and final rounds, and were judged by a panel of 15.
This was news to the researchers who had competed for grants based on a broader mission that was retroactively whittled down due largely to dwindling financial resources.
Once my makeup routine was whittled down, I shifted my focus to natural skin-care solutions to see if they could keep my newfound acne in check.
Now that there are only 16 teams left in the tournament, whittled down from the original, uh, more than 16, it's much easier to make that choice.
Democrats are searching for answers as their largest and most diverse field of presidential contenders ever has been whittled down to a top tier of white candidates.
The Jazz whittled down a 03-point deficit to close within 101-94 in the final minute before Embiid sank two free throws with 41.3 seconds left.
And that is before pay is whittled down by middlemen, who connect workers to farms and often pocket more than the standard 10 percent cut of wages.
That wall of maturities has been whittled down to about $90 billion as some borrowers paid off their loans early to take advantage of rock-bottom interest rates.
Incentive packages were devised by many more cities in the initial round of requests for proposals from Amazon, before it whittled down the list to 7833 finalist cities.
Belgium coach Roberto Martinez has named a provisional squad of 28, which will be whittled down to 23 on Monday after a friendly international against Portugal on Saturday.
When Mama eventually discovers that the once full moon(cake) has been whittled down to a crescent before being completely consumed, you can almost feel her quiet joy.
More importantly, this rapid ascent happened just as U.S. voters have whittled down the field to the two candidates for whom passions run high, both pro and con.
The seven women were chosen by a panel of judges — including Suffragette screenwriter Abi Morgan and journalist Emma Barnett — who whittled down hundreds of suggestions made by listeners.
To keep things simple, we've whittled down a selection of the best into six categories: Openers, middle order batsmen, wicketkeepers, all-rounders, fast bowlers, and of course, spinners.
Simon Cowell has whittled down his pick for a new host on "America's Got Talent" to just 3 guys -- one of whom is Marlon Wayans ... TMZ has learned.
From the fog of anxiety, the seemingly endless choices can be reduced and then reduced again and reduced again and they eventually are whittled down to just two.
Trump went all in this week, arguing that he could not afford for the already narrow two-vote Republican majority in the Senate to be further whittled down.
Earlier on CNN, Giuliani said he learned that the special counsel has whittled down the number of subjects about which Trump could be questioned in a potential interview.
Rhode Island also joined the free community college club this year, after a more comprehensive (and more expensive) free college bill was whittled down in the state legislature.
Brandon Churchman, a chef in Spring, Texas, has seen his work schedule whittled down to 20 hours this week, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic slowing local business.
Venter's team painstakingly whittled down the genome of Mycoplasma mycoides, a bacterium that lives in cattle, to reveal a bare-bones set of genetic instructions capable of making life.
He eventually produced a list of 21 potential Supreme Court nominees -- including Gorsuch -- and within days of Trump's startling electoral victory, the list had whittled down to just six.
The number of investing partners in London whittled down to two — Hulme and Larizadeh Duggan — and GV Europe's separate fund was combined with that of GV's in Mountain View.
Most car designs start off with such grand lines, but they ultimately get refined and whittled down to something more realistic, something that could be driven on real roads.
They were whittled down by breed then group—hound, sporting, terrier and more—before a seven-year-old Wire Fox Terrier called King scampered off with the top prize.
Most big companies have whittled down their base of suppliers, as a smaller supplier-base costs less to administer in terms of logistics, store maintenance, ordering and compiling data.
And so Europe's Russia policy has been whittled down to the periodic drama over renewing sanctions—the latest round expires in July—plus exercises to improve resilience at home.
Dahl, who can vote as she is turning 18 later this year, said she had whittled down her choice of party to between the Green Party and the Reds.
That area has been whittled down to about 6.8 percent of Iraqi territory after extensive military operations, which are still going on in the city of Mosul, he said.
Useem detailed his experience on a US naval ship, where the crew had been whittled down to just 40 people (compared to 350 on a World War II fleet).
Kelly started holding increasingly fewer senior staff meetings -- once daily occurrences were whittled down to weekly gatherings -- and began to exert less control over who talks to the President.
Mr. Dauman said that Viacom had whittled down potential buyers for the Paramount stake to a handful of prospects, but that there had been a slowdown in recent weeks.
Bets on another quarter point U.S. rate increase have whittled down to around 47 percent compared to a 50 percent probability a month ago, according to CME's Fedwatch tool.
The startup ran a trial program last month and had 130 applications that were whittled down to 12 founders from around the world who flew in for the program.
Working from a new modern-language translation by Rainer Iwersen, she also streamlined some of the action and whittled down the large cast of players to 10 speaking roles.
In true wheeler-dealer style, Trump may have simply made an opening offer on Wednesday, that will eventually be whittled down to more limited terms in a final deal.
As more Brexit-related headlines have emerged in recent weeks, investors have whittled down long positions in sterling despite some optimistic comments from central bank policymakers in recent weeks.
Hours before the six contenders to replace Theresa May were due to be whittled down by the party's lawmakers, Andrea Leadsom declared her support for Johnson, the clear favourite.
Currently, Stevenson's extensive shoe collection has been whittled down to a comparatively modest 90 pairs, an expression of how two separate events influenced his early retirement from the sneaker game.
There are at least 45 environment-related regulations (the New York Times tallied 76) being repealed or whittled down since Trump took office, with at least 25 at the EPA.
In the course of two weeks of gruelling knock-out play, several thousand players are whittled down to just two, playing "heads-up" for one of the WSOP's coveted bracelets.
For years following the financial crisis, Wall Street whittled down headcount, slashing more than 20,000 jobs, according to data maintained by the Office of the State Comptroller of New York.
If you're like us, you'll find a mix of your trusty go-tos (read: whittled-down eyeliner) and still-in-the-wrapper impulse buys (we're looking at you, blue lipstick).
In 2012, Apple was awarded more than $1 billion in damages related to these and other patents, before this figure was whittled down by Samsung in a series of appeals.
The New York Times reported that the case has now been whittled down to fraud, conspiracy and securities fraud charges, a shell of the blockbuster scheme Mr. Vance once described.
This spartan crew has been whittled down following round after round of layoffs as customers and regulators have wised up to the lies that the company has been publicly sharing.
With the shutdown stretching on, the White House appears like a ghost town -- the typically 80-100 household workers have been whittled down to about 29 who are deemed essential.
After more than a week of campaigning, the fight to lead the U.K. was whittled down to two: Britain's foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, will take on his predecessor, Boris Johnson.
The remaining five will now face votes until the race is whittled down to two candidates, who will face a postal ballot of the Conservative Party's largely pro-Brexit members.
It's as if an entire season of television had been whittled down to under two hours, or as if someone had taken a book and ripped out chapters at random.
Over two days, the Pentagon drew up a list of options for responding that was whittled down to one — launching cruise missiles at the Syrian air base of Al Shayrat.
A panel of independent judges whittled down the numbers, and semi-finalists got a month to shape up and present again; the 5 finalists selected are about to begin field testing.
But any goodwill Manziel still had left has whittled down to nothing after multiple relapses, excessive partying, violations of team rules and repeatedly lying to the public and to his team.
Over 2,600 submissions were whittled down to 35 semifinalists from 17 countries; 11 of the finalists are from the US. One route suggests a triangular hyperloop linking Austin, Dallas, and Houston.
The field had whittled down ahead of Monday's first-round bid deadline as several companies that were mulling an offer, including Comcast and Time, decided to opt out, the people said.
When there are three or more candidates, MPs vote in an initial round -- which is what happened Tuesday -- and then keep holding rounds until the number is whittled down to two.
Lizzie Plaugic: Nick began last night with 30 potential women to date, which he whittled down to a mere 22 "girlfriends" as the sun came up and the tears fell down.
Indeed, expectations for an interest rate increase have been whittled down; Reuters polls forecast rates will not move until early 2020, a calendar quarter later than was forecast a month ago.
That balance sheet reduction — quantitative tightening as it's known — has, since October 2017, whittled down what had been $4.25 trillion of bond holdings which the Fed accumulated between 2008 and 33.
And by tapping longtime affiliate No I.D. — who produced the 2009 smash "Run This Town" — Jay significantly whittled down his lengthy production roster, yielding a more cohesive product in the process.
Conservative Party members are due to have the final say on who the next leader will be after the wide field of anticipated candidates is whittled down to just two names.
Tesla's paint colors were whittled down in the past few days to help ramp up production and now the electric car maker is upping the price for its iconic red option.
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"What inevitably happens is that these very few numbers that we're seeing get whittled down to an even smaller number," said Michael McDonald, an elections expert at the University of Florida.
That balance sheet reduction — quantitative tightening as it's known — has, since October 2017, whittled down what had been $4.25 trillion of bond holdings which the Fed accumulated between 2008 and 22016.
Insilico's system initially produced 63,000 possible designs, which the research team whittled down to six that were synthesized in the lab, with one design eventually tested on mice to promising results.
Worried about a backlash from customers and investors, all of Australia's major banks have declined to fund the project, which has been whittled down to a sixth of its original size.
Over decades, Mississippi lawmakers have whittled down the education provision, ​and, the SPLC argues, l​​oosened their obligations to students , resulting in the decades-long neglect of poor, predominantly black schools.
The primary calendar has been in focus this year as the Democrats' largest and most diverse field ever has been whittled down to the top four candidates, who are all white.
The top 125 of the world's best players on the PGA circuit will be whittled down to 20163 over the course of the next few weeks, culminating in the Tour Championship.
What started as a three-way playoff was whittled down to two when American Jennifer Song was unable to match the birdies by Lindberg and Park at the third extra hole.
The field of candidates has been whittled down to a final two - ex-foreign minister Johnson and current foreign minister Hunt - with 160,000 Conservative Party members now making the final choice.
By the trial's conclusion in late 1984, Falwell's requested $45 million in damages were whittled down to a much more manageable $150,000, which for the wealthy Flynt was tantamount to pocket change.
As the competition whittled down to the final five, three Black women were left standing on the stage: Miss North Carolina Cheslie Kryst, Miss Nevada Tianna Tuamoheloa, and Miss Oklahoma Triana Browne.
Earlier this month, the Observatory said IS fighters had seized the town from government forces, part of a counter-attack by the jihadists whose territory in eastern Syria has been whittled down.
In her first speech since Republican President Donald Trump won the White House, SEC Commissioner Kara Stein raised concerns about possible unintended consequences that could result if disclosure rules are whittled down.
The finals, which aired live on ESPN from the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center at National Harbor, Maryland, featured the top 10 finalists, whittled down throughout the week from 284 contestants.
The Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organization and The Bahamas Department of Marine Resources called on staff from the Atlantis to come rescue the lost "little" guy, who'd whittled down to 365 lbs.
" The star has previously addressed baby-shamers, telling Marie Claire in 2016, "I have worked too hard in this life and this career to be whittled down to a sad, childless human.
Mayors' bids to attract HQ2 were so common that they populated a whole YouTube subgenre last fall, back before the 230 applicant cities had been whittled down to 20 cities in January.
While Trump's shortlist quickly whittled down, it wasn't until Jaffer was sitting in the White House East Room ahead of Trump's official rollout announcement that he knew Gorsuch would be the nominee.
The board had whittled down a field of 39 applicants to three: Cedric L. Alexander, the chief of police of DeKalb County, Ga.; Anne Kirkpatrick, a former police chief of Spokane, Wash.
"There were only a couple teams who showed interest in Antonio Brown before he signed with Pats, that list will probably be whittled down to zero for the foreseeable future," Glazer wrote.
The seven remaining candidates to lead the Conservatives will be whittled down to two by lawmakers before a postal ballot of the wider party membership is held to select the new leader.
The system churned out a number of options, which were then whittled down to identify an already-approved drug called Baricitinib, which is typically used to treat moderate and severe rheumatoid arthritis.
The bank will present its first investor update since completing a three-year restructuring in 2018 which cut back its investment banking activities, boosted cooperation with wealth management, and whittled down costs.
Republicans' opposition to spending increases was part of how the 2009 stimulus package, passed to rescue a sinking economy, got whittled down from what would probably have been a more effective figure.
Finally, to reduce the distorting effect of hapless minnows like the Cayman Islands and Bhutan, we whittled down our results to the 2002 countries that have played at least 150 matches since 1990.
Finally, to reduce the distorting effect of hapless minnows like the Cayman Islands and Bhutan, we whittled down our results to the 126 countries that have played at least 150 matches since 1990.
However, over the years, I've somehow whittled down my beauty routine from a complicated mess — which included foundation, concealer, liners, and eyeshadows galore — to solely a brow gel (yes, you read that right).
But opposition in parliament to leaving without an agreement is growing and the government's power has been whittled down by defections, making it harder for him to drive through a no-deal Brexit.
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Sharks were in the pools of Combo Breaker, and by the time the field was whittled down to the top 8, several major players like Leffen, ApologyMan, and Reynald had exited the stage.
Republicans are facing intense pressure from conservatives and the White House to stay in town if they haven't whittled down a backlog of nomination votes or made progress on a government funding bill.
The first ambitious bill, in 1993, got whittled down to a modest increase in the gasoline tax, and the rest of these efforts have failed miserably, even when Democrats had strong congressional majorities.
What was once a field of more than 20163 Democratic candidates has been whittled down to eight, after businessman Andrew Yang, U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick dropped out.
What was once a field of more than 20 Democratic candidates has been whittled down to eight, after businessman Andrew Yang, U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick dropped out.
At Christie's, we would run a "school" every two years, starting with as many as 40 in-house candidates, which over the course of a week would be whittled down to about 10.
After receiving dozens of nominations — some from the dance world figures they spoke with, others from aspirants putting themselves forward for the position — they whittled down the list to 20 candidates to interview.
Facing an undermanned Dallas Mavericks squad, the Thunder watched a 23-point fourth-quarter lead whittled down to 265 before finally pulling away for a 22-229 victory Wednesday at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.
A year later, Glenn was one of seven astronauts selected by the newly formed NASA (whittled down from a pool of 508, per NASA) to become the so-called "Mercury Seven," America's first astronauts.
Instead, long-shot candidate Bernie Sanders had her running scared after her lead in New Hampshire was whittled down by King and Fredrick, two dudes who started a ­Reddit forum for Sanders in 2013.
James Madison, who whittled down the long list of amendments proposed during constitutional ratification, argued that all changes to the Constitution should be incorporated into the text itself rather than tacked on the end.
Sheppard's team speculated that this moon, which is tentatively named after the Roman goddess Valetudo, may have once been a larger body, but has been gradually whittled down by clashes with other Jovian moons.
Generally, members of the academy submit entries, which are whittled down through a series of ballot votes to the top 15 in a category; then a nominations review committee selects the five final nominees.
By cutting down the amount of space that Android and its default apps take up, it's whittled down the install size to a little over 3GB — a savings of at least a couple gigabytes.
Instead, the kids were totally present—transfixed, almost—in the presence of a slab of metamorphic rock whittled down by hand long before cell phones were a thing, before even the advent of electricity.
Once the candidates are whittled down to the final two, the mainly pro-Brexit Conservative Party members will cast the deciding votes in July to select a leader to replace Prime Minister Theresa May.
Kelly started holding increasingly fewer senior staff meetings — once daily occurrences that were whittled down to weekly gatherings — and exerted less control over who talked to the President, which was once his sticking point.
Also abetting sterling's drop has been positioning in the pound which has been whittled down to broadly neutral levels leaving only retail speculators largely long on the British currency, according to Citi positioning data.
The moon whittled down the sun to one final sliver then slipped quietly into place, aligning itself as gently as Eli had aligned himself alongside me, one body blanketing another so perfectly, so completely.
The room was full of LA LAW veterans, but also plenty of newcomers who tentatively joined in on the cheering and jeering, gradually becoming more invested as the tournament whittled down the 16 competitors.
In fits and starts, the president has whittled down the remaining prison population, citing the high expense of imprisoning people there and portraying its continued operation as a symbol that fuels anti-American sentiments.
By the time Kim teed off, her lead had been whittled down to one stroke by the charging Park who went from two under to 10 under with a masterful display on the greens.
Nevertheless, the 2017 recruiting class has whittled down to a mere one recruit this morning after Noah Daniels, the No. 136 cornerback from League City, Texas, decided to opt out of his July commitment.
The innovation will promise a more "punchy" finish for spectators and television audiences, organizers hope, as a full field whittled down to 24 players compete in pairs in six-hole playoffs until only one remains.
At an event held at Google's Sydney office, the top 10 non-profit ideas, all using technology to solve social and environmental issues, were whittled down to three winners along with two people's choice awards.
Chinese officials have repeatedly pledged to lower market access barriers, but U.S. business lobbies say a negative list of prohibited and restricted industries for foreign investors is still too broad and must be whittled down.
Thorne gave us women with meek words whose personalities changed and disappeared and betrayed past growth to facilitate Harry's plotline at key moments,  women who had been whittled down from their complexities to their conveniences.
On the diplomatic front, the 20-strong band of countries that recognise Taiwan is bound to be whittled down further, following Panama's switch to China last year—Honduras, Palau and St Lucia could be next.
Basically it's a knockout game in which a bunch of songs are arranged into groups, people vote for their favourite, and then the lowest-voted tracks are gradually whittled down until a winner is crowned.
Now, that wave is coming to laptops: Acer's Swift 7 and Swift 5, Asus' new ZenBook line, Lenovo's updated Yoga laptops, and even Dell's midrange Inspiron computers are all getting their screen borders whittled down.
With the field now whittled down from seven candidates to two and Valls and Hamon set to meet mid-week for what could be a testy televised debate, the final outcome was hard to predict.
Johnson, the divisive former Foreign Secretary, was named as Theresa May's replacement Tuesday, following a seven-week contest in which 22015,073 members of the ruling Conservative party whittled down the candidates from 207 to one.
Johnson, the divisive former Foreign Secretary, was named as Theresa May's replacement Tuesday, following a seven-week contest in which 2442016605,000 members of the ruling Conservative party whittled down the candidates from 10 to one.
INCJ rescued cash-strapped Renesas in 2013 with an investment of 150 billion yen ($1.4 billion), and received 69 percent of the chipmaker, but has whittled down its stake as the company regained its footing.
But it was just the fact that I was 16 that got a lot of publicity… The large crew we worked with was whittled down to only the very basic people, a handful of people.
Though the group has whittled down from five to four young women (in December of 2016, Camila Cabello left the group to pursue a solo career), Fifth Harmony continues to be as strong as ever.
Over the course of three years, 30 songs crafted alone on her living room couch and recorded into an iPhone were whittled down to a lean ten, and their patience and meticulousness has paid off.
This time around, a field of three challengers has already been whittled down to one — Bill Weld, a former Massachusetts governor who has failed to make any dent in Mr. Trump's popularity within the party.
So it's not ... One of the things I remember hearing about "Spinal Tap" is that you guys had recorded hundreds and hundreds of hours and the two-and-a-half we've seen is whittled down.
By the time the competition reached the semi-finals there were all of 2200 spectators left, the rest having left hours ago as the 28 competitors—well below the 993 the organizers anticipated—were whittled down.
By the time the competition reached the semi-finals there were all of 2200 spectators left, the rest having left hours ago as the 83 competitors—well below the 28 the organizers anticipated—were whittled down.
But as the Senate's "full and open debate" on immigration has been whittled down to a series of four votes over a single day, it's not like other bills have a better chance of passing either.
There's at least six — and that's the whittled-down selection, excluding personal suitcases and larger Pelican cases that house all the parts for the Montreal trio's extensive live setup with drum machines, launchpads, keyboards, and more.
That November, the whittled-down boy band released Made in the A.M., which charted well but ultimately got pipped to the title of fastest-selling album of 2015 in the U.K. by — wait for it — Adele.
In Ethiopia, for instance, an authoritarian government dominated by the Tigrayan ethnic group has whittled down the opposition, imprisoning many of its people; in last year's election the ruling party won all the seats in parliament.
"By placing Mr. Selden's claims into arbitration, a consumer's constitutional right to a jury trial and access to the courts of law continues to be whittled down gradually but surely," Mr. Emejuru said in a statement.
Their Big Four of a few years ago has whittled down to just Russell Westbrook, but that is probably fine with him as he would very likely be fine with taking on opponents 1-on-5.
The 12, whittled down over the course of the week, included a Danish doctor, a 41-year-old French father of two and a 23-year-old Briton who had yet to pass his driving test.
The audience often squirmed as an exacting director whittled down applicants for the chorus during auditions not only by watching them perform but also by extracting revelatory confessions of why they so desperately wanted to dance.
The seven remaining candidates will be whittled down to two through a series of votes by Conservative Party lawmakers, before a postal ballot of the wider Conservative Party membership is held to pick a new leader.
The city paid the roughly $40,000 it cost to complete the project—a figure Golter whittled down from initial estimates of around $275,220, in part, by doing some of the work himself and getting help from friends.
The 75-minute show, before an audience of a few hundred invited guests, will be whittled down to an hour for broadcast on PBS in February as part of the network's Front and Center CMA Songwriter Series.
Empire got locked out of Outstanding Drama Series, The Good Wife is ending on a sour note, and Downton Abbey's usual slew of supporting acting noms were whittled down to a single shoutout for Dame Maggie Smith.
Later on Thursday, the field of candidates hoping to replace Prime Minister Theresa May and take on Britain's so far ill-fated negotiations to leave the EU will be whittled down to two by Conservative Party lawmakers.
The two still haven't put an end to their much bigger lawsuit — the one that originally gave Apple more than a $1 billion win against Samsung, which has since been whittled down to closer to $400 million.
The 40 humanitarians on the course, whittled down from 400 applicants, will join UNHCR's emergency roster after completing the training, and are likely to be deployed to a crisis for two to three months within a year.
Whittled down from 78 submitted proposals, the finalists are: As reported by Gizmodo, each of these seven cities will now receive $100,000 to finesse the plans for their city before the winning proposal is announced in June.
When Congress belatedly convened in December 1923, in the wake of the 1922 midterm elections, the GOP majority had been whittled down by eight seats, leaving 51 Republicans, including seven independent-minded members, and 45 Democrats. Sen.
What was once a field of more than 20163 has been whittled down to seven, after businessman Tom Steyer became the latest to end his bid after finishing third in South Carolina, the fourth state to vote.
As the pool is whittled down to 12 jurors, each side can use up to seven peremptory challenges to eliminate potential jurors without offering a reason; in selecting six alternates, each side will get three more challenges.
As someone whose entire personal taste can apparently be whittled down to "feel-good British reality TV," I get sometimes feeling like you're alone in this big, bad Netflix world — but their Instagram accounts prove that you're not.
Conservative lawmakers whittled down the prime ministerial candidates to two over a series of votes and now the Conservative Party's approximately 160,000 paid-up members will choose between Johnson and Hunt, with the result due on July 23.
Those reports will show the extent to which brisk export demand has whittled down corn and soybean inventories, and whether farmers planted more soybeans and less corn than initially expected due to a spring rally in soy prices.
But if Mr Trump gets the opportunity to replace not only Mr Scalia but Stephen Breyer (aged 78), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (83) or Mr Kennedy (80) over the next few years, abortion rights will probably be whittled down.
Chief Executive Officer, John Cryan, has told investors he does not intend to pursue a capital raise and that he believes the $14 billion payment requested from the U.S. Department of Justice during September will be whittled down.
After a bout of violence last year, foreign donors withdrew, the budget was revised and the plan was whittled down to a year; $9m in investment, equivalent to a tenth of the state budget, went up in smoke.
The field was then whittled down to a long list of 40 finalists, then to a short list of four, and finally just to one, the Silver Fern, which had to battle it out against the old faithful.
A second round of voting among lawmakers takes place on Tuesday as the candidates are whittled down to a final two before 160,000 Conservative grassroots members choose the next leader and prime minister by the end of July.
The pound didn't budge after the latest round of the Conservative party leadership vote, in which the number of candidates vying to become the party leader and replace Theresa May as prime minister was whittled down to three.
The main event starts at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific/5:30am Tehran time and has been whittled down to just (just?) seven candidates: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and John Kasich.
VirtualLink, a consortium of companies including AMD, NVIDIA, Oculus, Valve, and Microsoft, has just announced that the oodles of cables needed to connect VR headsets to PCs will soon be whittled down to a single USB-C connection.
Characters have been whittled down to a single defining personality trait, and the relationships between them simplified to the point of nonsensicality: Does it really make sense for Sansa and Arya to share such an easy sisterly bond?
The researchers gathered 2,330 Cepheid variables catalogued by an infrared telescope called the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, and whittled down the list to 1,339 stars based on their distance, models of the Milky Way, and other factors.
I have also whittled down the over 25,250 contacts in my iPhone to 21 people for my Nokia, or the number of people I actually talk to on a regular basis, which is incredibly close to Dunbar's number.
What follows is basically the sped-up arc of a typical relationship—a cycle familiar to anyone who's had any type of erotic exchange, whether elongated over the course of ten years or whittled down to one week.
The criminal case has been whittled down to two accusers: Mann, who alleged Weinstein raped her twice in 2013, and Mimi Haleyi, a former "Project Runway" assistant who alleged the producer forced oral sex on her in 2006.
The six dedicated juvenile courts there have been whittled down to one operating courtroom that the judges alternate through, with a maximum number of people in the courtroom set at 10; county and district attorneys are videoconferencing in.
The field of candidates has been whittled down to a final two - ex-foreign minister Johnson and current foreign minister Hunt - with 160,000 Conservative Party members now making the final choice and a decision expected by late July.
A bill in the Florida Legislature to compensate his mother and him for this extended miscarriage of justice kicked around for months, until it was whittled down to $75,000 for Jesse and nothing at all for his mother.
A few months after the first trial, prosecutors whittled down the case by dismissing dozens of charges and entered into a five-year deferred-prosecution agreement with one of the defendants: Steven H. Davis, the firm's former chairman.
She was selected from a shortlist of five Canadian women, whittled down from thousands of nominees submitted by Canadians as part of the Bank of Canada's campaign to design a new note printed with an iconic Canadian woman.
The Sony World Photography Awards is widely regarded as one of the world's most prestigious photography competitions — and today, it announced the finalist and shortlisted images of its 22019th annual Professional competition, whittled down from a staggering 135,000 images.
And whereas Labour candidates need the backing of only 10% of MPs to get on to the ballot paper sent to members, Tory candidates are whittled down by MPs to a shortlist of two before members have their say.
This figure was whittled down over the years by Samsung's lawyers (it currently stands at $400 million) but a recent successful appeal from the South Korean electronics giant means the figure will now be reassessed at trial once again.
With long positions in sterling whittled down in recent weeks after hitting a three-year high in late January, more upside room for the currency is likely if the Bank of England adopts a confident stance at Thursday's meeting.
Wilpon said that even though Van Wagenen, 44, was an "out of the box" option, he was the team's top choice from an initial list of about 40 candidates that was whittled down to nearly a dozen who interviewed.
Since October, year-over-year wage growth had been shooting up at a much faster monthly rate compared with the characteristic plodding increases that have whittled down the standard of living for millions of low- and middle-income Americans.
This Thursday night, the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates will face off for one night only for the first time ever, after the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) rules and several dropouts have whittled down the qualifying field to just 10.
Fortunately, if you deduce that 7D ends in an S, your choices get whittled down (to nothing, if you're me) and eventually you might stumble on SURE DO. All of these little phrases make me think of Andy Griffith.
And while there are some expectations the list will get whittled down further, mayors don't know if that will be another round in the public process, or if the next words from Amazon will be, "And the winner is ..."
This whittled down to just under 3 million, but rising production of light crude from Libya, Kazakhstan and Russia means buyers have a suite of choices - and could steer clear of a country whose exports are still seen as unreliable.
The winners of the Water Window Challenge, whittled down from nearly 400 entries, will work over the next 18 months to help communities in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and South and Southeast Asia deal with floods and drought.
Unlike the auctions familiar in developed markets, where investors are whittled down over several rounds and offers can be adjusted, Sabeco bidders need to submit a single price for a specific number of shares in a sealed envelope in one round.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was originally conceived as a six-episode anthology TV series, but somewhere in the last year it seems that it was whittled down to a single film that just happens to tell six different stories.
" Last year, the actress, 48, lamented the perils of being shamed for everything from her relationship status to her nipples, writing,  "I have worked too hard in this life and this career to be whittled down to a sad, childless human.
The number of countries that now officially recognize Taiwan has been whittled down to 18, following moves by Burkina Faso in West Africa and the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean region to formally switch relations to China from Taiwan this year.
Unlike similar sales in developed markets, where investors are whittled down over several rounds and offers can be adjusted, Sabeco bidders need to submit a single offer for a specific number of shares in a sealed envelope in one round.
Unlike similar sales in developed markets, where investors are whittled down over several rounds and offers can be adjusted, Sabeco bidders needed to submit a single offer for a specific number of shares in a sealed envelope in one round.
From nightmarish movies to devastating news accounts of disaster and starvation, Haiti's portrayal has been whittled down to a place of exotic ruin, and its faraway sons and daughters often have to work to resist that reputation, even within themselves.
As for the remaining 35 semifinalists in the challenge, those teams now go up for review by Hyperloop One's panel of experts and will eventually get whittled down to a fraction of the current number to be announced later this year.
In it, he is seen touching on issues known to be important to the 160,000 or so Conservative members who will have the final vote on Britain's next leader, once the candidate list has been whittled down by Conservative lawmakers.
Kelly has held increasingly fewer senior staff meetings -- once daily occurrences which have been whittled down to weekly gatherings -- and has exerted less control over who talks to Trump, as well as how and when outsiders connect with the President.
Over the years our shared experiences were whittled down to car rides as he chauffeured me from drama club or band practice in high school and then to my college campus in Ohio, eight hours away from our home in Pennsylvania.
The Islamic State convoy stranded in the middle of the Syrian desert has whittled down in size as the American military and Syrian government allies traded accusations on whether food and water were reaching the hundreds of beleaguered bus passengers.
Given the array of women from which Peter whittled down to his current final three, I think it's fair to say that Bachelor Nation isn't thrilled about the possibility of any of his contestants starting their own journey as the Bachelorette.
London time on Monday, the spread between 10-year Portuguese debt and its German equivalent had narrowed to 208 basis points while the spread for Irish bonds of the same maturity had been whittled down to a mere 29 basis points.
The refugee cap was whittled down to 45,000 for 2018 and 30,000 for 2019, over the objections of senior officials in the Department of Defense, who view the program as crucial to rewarding and building allies in U.S. military campaigns oversees.
GENEVA (Reuters) - The list of candidates to lead the World Health Organization (WHO) and rebuild its battered reputation after its slow response to West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak was whittled down to three on Wednesday, with a final choice due in May.
Consumers paid off more of their monthly credit card balance — and whittled down big debts faster — when given the chance to target specific purchases on their statement for repayment, compared to when only offered typical repayment options such as making the minimum payment.
The list of 20 finalists, determined by the Academy's Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee, will be whittled down to 10 in a vote later this month, and five of those will be nominated by the Academy at large before the February ceremony.
Every other week we bring you a big ol' roundup of every possible bit of Star Wars news we can find, and nearly every week it's a struggle to get that rather large collection of news whittled down into a concise post.
However, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in a monthly report was upbeat on the oil market outlook for 2017, saying global demand for its crude would be higher than its current production and excess oil inventories would be whittled down.
Nothing quite compares to the horror that is watching your checkout total jump up to $158 with a single cart you painstakingly whittled down to the new Urban Decay Cherry eyeshadow palette, Drunk Elephant's Babyfacial brighting mask, and a bottle of Olaplex shampoo.
Going into the matchup, the field of eight was whittled down to Klay, Steph and a 19-year-old Devin Booker as the final three, and poor Booker—who did good to make it through a tie breaker—ultimately didn't stand a chance.
The 29-strong field had already been whittled down to a battle between the 22-year-old and Poland's experienced Maja Wloszczowska as the bell rang for the last of six laps around the rolling 4.8-km course straddling Rio's inland hills.
Why it matters: Sales at Sears accounted for roughly 1% of U.S. GDP in the 1960s, but decades of competition with big-box retailers and online merchants, combined with recent mismanagement by CEO Eddie Lampert, have whittled down Sears' financial position thoroughly.
Still, Bradlee and the newsroom that he led embodied the romance of journalism, during a pre-digital era when a celebrity editor wielded power in a manner that seemingly stood considerably taller than what's possible in today's whittled-down and diffused media landscape.
Under Carter's proposals, the role of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would be clarified, the number of four-star generals would be whittled down and service chiefs would have a greater role in the acquisition process, among other changes.
These visits can be whittled down to less than an hour, relatives say, because of the time-consuming process of entering the building, or they can be forbidden altogether depending on the inmate's risk factor or whether the jail is on lockdown.
After being whittled down to two candidates by Conservative Party lawmakers, the 160,000 grassroots members of the party will be asked to choose between Johnson and Hunt to be their new party leader, and prime minister, with the result due next month.
And in a dramatic debate that began Thursday morning and stretched into Friday night, the chamber rejected the Health Care Freedom Act, a bill that whittled down Republicans' ambitions to repealing the individual mandate (which would still leave 16 million Americans without coverage).
But with nuclear-reliant France at just two thirds of its reactor capacity, and Germany having whittled down its nuclear capacity to 11.3 gigawatts (GW) after the Fukushima disaster in Japan in 2011, the possibility of prolonged outages causes concern, they said.
Most recently, Harold Wilson's in 1974, after the February election of that year yielded no overall majority, and John Major's government of 1996-97, after the slim majority that he had won in 1992 had been whittled down by defections and the grim reaper.
Both Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead have struggled with a desensitized viewership as their ensembles have been whittled down to a core group of characters who essentially need to survive for a while longer, as the series head toward their respective end games.
It was far from a sure thing: Just weeks ago, Iran was demanding the release of nearly 20 Iranians convicted or indicted in the United States; an administration official said that number had been whittled down to seven, but even that still rankled some.
The partisan gap in Congress has widened as Blue Dogs' membership has been whittled down to its current 18-member standing, but ahead of Election Day, the Blue Dog PAC has endorsed more than 20 congressional candidates it hopes to add to its ranks.
After weeding out children's songs, TV jingles and non-pop genres like classical, as well as singles that were never named to music charts, the sample list was whittled down to 1,558 songs; 1,144 were named once and 414 were named more than once.
Roughly 2,000 stunning snaps from 42 countries were whittled down to just 24 finalists, with the shortlist made up of four entries each in six different categories: exterior, interior, sense of place, buildings in use, mobile, and portfolio (with a theme of social housing).
Using the tools of story, he pulls readers heart-first into a perspective so much longer-lived and more subtly developed than the human purview that we gain glimpses of a vast, primordial sensibility, while watching our own kind get whittled down to size.
So mad have our refugee policies become that we even spent around $41 million on a deal with Cambodia to resettle our refugees, which ended up settling seven individuals, later whittled down to three, at a cost of more than $13 million per refugee.
Using a much-whittled-down version of Peter Stein's German prose translation (that version ran to nine and a half hours during its original performances at the Berlin Schaubühne in 1980), Antú Romero Nunes has brought his stripped-down, savage aesthetic to Aeschylus' tragic trilogy.
Cornelius completed 23 of 34 passes for 321 yards, and his scoring run on third-and-10 gave Oklahoma State (5-73, 2-3 Big 12) a 20-228 lead after its 241-222 halftime advantage had been whittled down to just three points.
Nick Viall, a former "Bachelorette" contestant who is now looking for love as the star of "The Bachelor," has whittled down his list of potential partners to two: Raven Gates, a fashion boutique owner from Arkansas, and Vanessa Grimaldi, a special-education teacher from Montreal.
Trump selected a former law clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia to chair the oversight board at the end of August, after coming under scrutiny for not issuing any nominations to the five-person body even as it was whittled down to one member.
In Europe, oil floating in the North Sea had whittled down to 5 million barrels last week from around 7 million two weeks ago, while a Total-offered supertanker of North Sea Forties crude failed to find a buyer by mid-week, according to trade sources.
The benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury yield was last at 0003 percent after dipping overnight to its lowest level since late August, with the yield gap between 10-year maturities in U.S. and British government whittled down to 162 basis points from 174 a month earlier.
It aims to complete the sale by the end of the financial year in March as failure to do so will likely mean that shareholder equity - whittled down to just $3 billion in the wake of a 2015 accounting scandal - would be wiped out by the charge.
All of this has Uber waving its hands around trying to draw attention back to the law in the case, begging the world to pay attention to what's supposed to actually be at stake: eight alleged trade secrets, whittled down from over a hundred asserted by Waymo.
Her cushion had been whittled down to two shots when she bogeyed the 12th, minutes after Kim had holed a 40-footer putt, and when the Korean sank an even longer putt, 50 feet from off the green at the 15th, Ariya's lead was down to one.
Kessler writes most of these profiles well, with flesh on the bone, yet there comes a moment when it seems both too much and not enough to fire off three-page mini-biographies, many whittled down to story lines designed to illustrate the centrality of capture.
With Republican Donald Trump to be sworn in as president on Friday and vowing to keep the prison open, Democrat Obama whittled down the inmate population there to only 41, far short of fulfilling his promise to close the jail dating back to his 2008 presidential campaign.
The selection for 215— includes films from as far back as 303 with Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, to more recent pieces like The Shawkshank Redemption– is whittled down by the National Film Preservation Board (NFPB), with a final choice made by the Librarian of Congress.
After Super Tuesday, the Democratic nomination has essentially been whittled down to a two-man race between Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden, and it's going to get really, really nasty, threatening a return to the conditions that contributed to a Democratic Party meltdown in 2016.
During Tuesday's hearing, the top lawyer for the Democrats told Howell that the House impeachment inquiry still includes issues tied to the Mueller probe and hasn't just been whittled down to Trump's efforts to pressure the president of Ukraine into launching investigations of his political opponents.
Even the scale of the two wars was vastly different: Half a million American troops went to Vietnam at its height, compared with a maximum of 100,000 to Afghanistan, now whittled down to 14,000; more than 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam, fewer than 19753,000 in Afghanistan.
The benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury yield was last at 2.896 percent after dipping overnight to its lowest level since late August with the yield gap between ten-year maturities in U.S. and British government whittled down to 162 basis points from 174 basis points a month earlier.
But I never understood the satisfaction I was getting out of these habits until, a few years ago, I watched my mother — exhausted and whittled down by rounds of chemo for the cancer she's now in remission from — haul herself off the couch after a particularly bad afternoon.
The immediate goal is to win 2202,2628 delegates who will go to county conventions in March, to be whittled down to ever-smaller numbers at subsequent congressional district and state conventions, and then – eventually – to the 28500 delegates who will represent Iowa Democrats at the national convention in July.
Still, it's plain that there are really two tax systems, wrote tax expert Edward McCaffery -- one for the people whose paychecks are whittled down to fund the government and the other for the super-rich, like Trump, who can in some cases get away with paying zero tax.
"We can recede into our echo chambers and sulk and tweet, or we can get off our asses and create change with a sustained commitment," the hackathon's lead organizer, Elevate Labs CEO Jesse Pickard, told the assembled crowd as he kicked off the final presentations, whittled down from 40.
In the first stage of ore treatment, huge chunks of ore are whittled down to pieces no bigger than about five centimeters, or two inches, first using jaw crushers and then through a "wet milling" process, which uses water to break down the lumps of ore even smaller.
The Hill's Rebecca Kheel has the story: Under Carter's proposal, the role of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would be clarified, the number of four-star generals would be whittled down and service chiefs would have a greater role in the acquisition process, among other changes.
Looking ahead to 2017, the introduction of further policy measures could well rattle the market as tax relief on mortgage interest is gradually whittled down to nothing by 2020 and incoming changes to inheritance tax kick in to include previously exempt foreign-domiciled owners purchasing within a corporate structure.
With the original cast of eight characters whittled down to just five — and only four of those in the show's core ensemble — it was forced to introduce yet another set of new arrivals who seemed destined to last just a season, in Paget Brewster's Frankie Dart and Keith David's Elroy Patashnik.
Tuesday's votes were as follows: Theresa May -- 165 Andrea Leadsom -- 66 Michael Gove -- 48 Stephen Crabb -- 34 Liam Fox --16 When there are three or more candidates, MPs vote in an initial round -- which is what happened Tuesday -- and then keep holding rounds until the number is whittled down to two.
He describes the album as more "melancholic" than previous efforts, but its ten tracks—whittled down from 60 to 70, with help from manager and Broken Social Scene drummer Justin Peroff, mentor Seamus Hamilton, and long walks—balance out its more downcast moments with atmospheric keyboards, gleaming synths, and buoyant melodies.
The foundation has already doled out around one million in milestone prizes, helping keep teams afloat over the past few years as the original 40 teams (itself down from 300 or so who pre-registered) were whittled down to a top 10 in 2014, now down to a final two.
As deputy chief of the SEC division responsible for going after fraud involving complex financial instruments, Muoio whittled down cases that involved widespread criminality in an organization—like Goldman Sachs scheming with hedge funds to knowingly sell investors garbage mortgage securities—into a single civil suit against one midlevel staffer.
It does not explain why the White House has so much more faith in 3 percent growth this year than other forecasters, who have whittled down their expectations for 2019 in light of increased global obstacles to growth and weaker-than-expected readings of the domestic economy so far this year.
The pound didn't budge after Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson scored by far the higher number of votes in the latest round of the Conservative party leadership contest, in which the number of candidates vying to become party leader and replace Theresa May as prime minister was whittled down to three.
Whittled down from the WHO's study of over 22.5,1043 cities in 2104 countries, CNBC takes a look at the 22.5 most polluted cities in the world based on a comparison of the average amount of PM2120 — a particle considered so small that it can enter the lungs and cause serious health problems.
But when the field is whittled down, as it will be over the first few primaries, the debates aren't going to be long exercises in grandstanding punctuated by occasional one-on-one conflicts; they're going to be actual wars, in which every question leads to a significant clash between the men left standing.
And then, because we wanted the test people take on the website to be based in real science, but also short enough and fun enough that people would enjoy it, we whittled down from a full-blown personality test to a bunch of smaller questions that still measure the core of each trait.
"The fact is, there are simply too many drug companies out there that can be more valuable to potential acquirers than they are to the stock market itself," Cramer explained, pointing to the numerous companies that have whittled down their drugmaking franchises to cover only one illness or produce just one type of medication.
You can think of the sound of these in-ears as akin to their external design: in the same way that the metal case has been filed down to a pristine, perfectly smooth finish, so too the sound has been whittled down to only its essential, musical elements, and the result is simply pleasurable.
And while the process of formulating any strategic policy document is likely to involve plenty of 'blue-sky thinking' — thinking that never, ultimately, makes the cut as a bona fide policy pledge — it's nonetheless interesting to see how a very long-list of digital ideas has been whittled down and reshuffled into this set of "seven strands".
"When you've sat on that throne of power for hundreds of years and you see your throne legs being whittled down and now you're being lowered down to the level of the people that you consider inferior, it's really troubling and that's why you find a lot of these groups stepping up their recruitment efforts," Davis says.
Aberdeen's chief executive Martin Gilbert decried as "grossly exaggerated" certain weekend press reports that suggested the firms' combined headcount of around 9,000, mostly based between Edinburgh and London but with smaller outposts in scores of countries globally, would be whittled down by up to 1,000 employees and instead played up the cost efficiencies resulting from technical and operating platform rationalization.
But DC's 212 weeks got whittled down to eight weeks of parental leave for a new child, six weeks for family caregiving, and two weeks for personal medical leave (which is the most expensive benefit to insure because it happens most frequently, but also the one that workers are least likely to need for more than a week or two at a time).
According to Business Insider, the company implemented a so-called "trip wire" for keeping down costs to MoviePass—beginning with a multi-million dollar cap before being whittled down to "a few hundreds of thousand":MoviePass also enforced what it called a "trip wire," an automatic shutdown mechanism for all users that would be activated if MoviePass went past a certain amount balance.
The "Lakewood Six" (which had been whittled down to the "Lakewood Four" after the events of the show's sophomore season) will be no more, which means we'll never get to know if Emma (Willa Fitzgerald) ever figured out what the hell was going on at the James' farm, or if Noah would ever get a girlfriend that wasn't an early target of the town's serial killer.
There were two main defects in this "democratic" reform: First, before they were presented to the party's base, the number of candidates was "whittled down" by a series of ballots confined to sitting MPs; and, second, the party's base was no longer what it once was, having shrunk from its post-war high of almost 6900 million members to a post-war low of about 2628,28503.
The White House then whittled down an initial proposed list for the official Presidential Delegation to the inauguration from over a dozen individuals to just five: Secretary Perry as its head, Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker representing the State Department, National Security Council Director Alex Vindman representing the White House, temporary acting Charge d'Affaires Joseph Pennington representing the Embassy, and Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland.
To be fair to Yankovic and other enthusiastic star-getters, agreeing to a nomination doesn't guarantee that a celeb will be approved — the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce chooses who will be awarded a star, and they say that they get around 300 applications a year, which have to be whittled down to 20-24 recipients, and there are probably a ton of humble luminaries who don't think they'll actually be selected.
To keep the new allure of alts from causing you to crash your portfolio on the rocks of poor choices — or, in the case of minimal investment, allowing it to be whittled down — consider these basic questions: It's important to remember that alts aren't the only way that the diversification-conscious can deal with the coincidence of the stock market's being at all-time highs and the end of the 30-year bull bond market.
Following the initial round of voting on April 220, which saw 11 candidates whittled down to just two, most of the defeated contenders have urged their supporters to vote for Macron, not so much because they support his views but because he is a more appealing alternative than the far-right Le Pen, who wants France to leave the EU. Many have come to see Macron as a shoo-in to be the next president of France.
Following the initial round of voting on April 553, which saw 11 candidates whittled down to just two, most of the defeated contenders have urged their supporters to vote for Macron, not so much because they support his views but because he is a more appealing alternative than the far-right Le Pen, who wants France to leave the EU. Many have come to see Macron as a shoo-in to be the next president of France.
Before the onset of the last decade's financial crisis, and the German-imposed fiscal austerity, Italy's budget deficit in 2007 was whittled down to 1.5 percent of GDP (compared to nearly 3 percent of GDP in France), the primary budget surplus (budget before interest charges on public debt) was driven up to 1.7 percent of GDP, helping to bring down the public debt to 112 percent of GDP from an annual average of 13 percent in the previous six years.
Rami Anis (M): Country of origin – Syria; host NOC – Belgium; sport – swimming Yiech Pur Biel (M): Country of origin – South Sudan; host NOC – Kenya; sport – athletics, 800m James Nyang Chiengjiek (M): Country of origin – South Sudan; host NOC – Kenya; sport – athletics, 400m Yonas Kinde (M): Country of origin – Ethiopia; host NOC – Luxembourg; sport – athletics, marathon Anjelina Nada Lohalith (F): Country of origin – South Sudan; host NOC – Kenya; sport – athletics, 1500m Rose Nathike Lokonyen (F): Country of origin – South Sudan; host NOC – Kenya; sport – athletics, 800m Paulo Amotun Lokoro (M): Country of origin – South Sudan; host NOC – Kenya; sport – athletics, 1500m Yolande Bukasa Mabika (F): Country of origin – Democratic Republic of the Congo; host NOC – Brazil; sport – judo, -70kg Yusra Mardini (F): Country of origin – Syria; host NOC – Germany; sport – swimming Popole Misenga (M): Country of origin – Democratic Republic of the Congo; host NOC – Brazil; sport – judo, -90kg An initial group of 43 candidates was announced and was whittled down to these 10 team members.

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