The Leatherman Free P4 is still great at whittling sticks.
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Instead it was a gradual whittling away at my body.
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I was nimble when whittling or when sharpening an ax.
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Whittling a deity from a block of wood And it's working.
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Like, do I go off and start whittling wood into benches?
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She keeps mostly quiet, while mentally whittling them down to size.
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Whittling down this list to 41 athletes was no easy feat.
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"I'm not surprised that they're whittling a few percent here and there."
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The GOP will start whittling away at Obama's regulatory legacy on Jan.
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His daughter was whittling down the plug for a carrot slide flute.
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She suggested whittling down Maynard's issues list to one – the right to die.
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That might sound like a series of concessions; a whittling down to nothing.
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Knitting a sock or whittling a walking stick or fashioning a vase from
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You're whittling around these corners, and that's where the attention and focus is.
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The play acts like a whittling knife, refining and clarifying as it cuts.
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In whittling down al-Nuwayri's opus, his selections skew to the crowd-pleasing.
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Whittling his vast catalog down to just 10 essential songs is no easy task.
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Whittling out higher-risk people from the market would bring those premiums back down.
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But the Bucks made up for it, slowly whittling away at the Timberwolves' lead.
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Two more sat on the porch, one of them whittling wood in denim dungarees.
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Dementia's whittling seems crueller when the oak once stood as tall as Thatcher did.
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Here are four things to keep in mind when whittling down what you owe.
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The bartenders spend the quiet hours whittling big ice cubes into spheres, with knives.
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Despite a wave of mergers since the crisis, Spain still has some whittling to do.
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Tory MPs will begin whittling down the candidates on Tuesday to a shortlist of two.
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Instead, they have to make changes gradually, whittling away at benefits and increasing employees' premiums.
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A whittling of the field is coming: While 10 candidates have qualified for the Nov.
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She traveled light, whittling her belongings down to what could fit into a single suitcase.
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Whittling away at the standards will undermine the global competitiveness of the U.S. auto industry.
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"We are going to start whittling that down, and as fast as possible," he said.
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O'Sullivan won by four strokes, whittling three strokes off the tournament record in the process.
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That committee then has the unenviable task of whittling down the list to roughly 40 people.
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Part of the problem is that it's hard to start whittling down the dose, Bohn says.
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Thankfully, we did some of the work for you, whittling it down to our favorite picks.
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Inflation is mind-boggling, whittling the nation's minimum wage to the equivalent of $2003 a month.
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While the BOJ likely won't ease policy, the hurdle for whittling down stimulus is quite high.
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Imagine Yabe whittling out each tiny detail here, in a depiction of Saturn devouring his child.
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You can explore in bits and pieces, whittling away at the game when you have some downtime.
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Long before Mr Modi came to power, however, Indian governments began whittling away at the state's autonomy.
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After whittling down his contestants, Mike ultimately got down on one knee and proposed to Monica Villalobos.
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Conservative lawmakers will hold their first round of voting on Thursday to begin whittling the field down.
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The endgame, critics say, is a whittling down of scientific credibility that can help loosen environmental regulations.
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Kershaw had pitched masterfully, whittling away at the Mets' hopes for a victory with each dominating strikeout.
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Then you're trying to tug the coconut oil off, while also whittling at it with a scalpel.
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The men set to, preparing the ground, whittling a spit, rigging the fire and setting it alight.
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Shawn René Graham's script is problematic, too, whittling away at both the depth and number of characters.
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But fortunately, the laws and the new dispensation that we've put in place is whittling it down.
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Vila can still be spotted whittling around on the Home Shopping Network selling tools named after himself.
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It doesn't have to entail going full vegetarian — even just whittling down portions can make a dent.
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CME clamped down on costs during the quarter, whittling total expenses down by 5.2 percent to $316.4 million.
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The projections could heighten the chance the BOJ will debate whittling down its massive stimulus next fiscal year.
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Whittling down the group of 25 won't be easy, but Fletcher tells PEOPLE she has a few requirements.
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It operates in the uncomfortable realm of the filmic novella, and GLUE could benefit from further whittling down.
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The process of editing and whittling down the plates was complex, painful, and occasionally out of my hands.
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Tories are steadily whittling the U.K. welfare state down to nothing, bleeding the poor while bloating the rich.
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They opposed the creation of the CFPB from the beginning, and are devoted to whittling away at it.
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Mr. Flannery, who took over in August 2017, continued whittling down the finance unit, but its troubles lingered.
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Then detectives spent more than two weeks whittling down the list by calling relatives or checking social media.
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But there is a margin of error of 28500 percentage points, whittling Sanders's lead down to muy poco.
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After painstakingly whittling down the list, I present you with our top Trader Joe's picks, according to R29 staffers.
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Just accept it; you'll never be happy whittling down your 100+ lipstick collection to one red and one nude.
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Producers had left a record number of wells unfinished in Permian, but now appear to be whittling them down.
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But while the U.S. still leads every other country in space, Kwast cautions that the edge is whittling away.
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Members took up the task of whittling that figure down on Thursday, with a slate of amendments earning votes.
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Freight fuel demand is in turn encouraging refineries to process record crude volumes and whittling away excess crude stocks.
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For people who want a more proactive approach to spending and whittling down debt, there's You Need a Budget.
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But the parties were whittling down remaining disputes, including how much funding to distribute to hospitals across the country.
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After decades of corporations whittling down labor's power and big donors taking over American politics, it's an immense undertaking.
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Lytle had given him carte blanche, and so the real challenge was whittling things down to just four designs.
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Six nations over the past four years have de-recognized Taiwan, whittling down its formal diplomatic contacts to 22019.
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Conservative members of parliament will begin whittling the list down this week with a series of votes in parliament.
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After a five-year-long whittling-down process, NASA has opted for the crater and its potential ancient river delta.
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It plans to invest in its best stores and digital operations while whittling down $4.3 billion in long-term debt.
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The automaker has been whittling away at its large volume of unsold vehicles, a source of concern for the market.
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So why not just have one election, primary and general, rolled into one, where a ranked ballot did the whittling?
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Automation looks set to continue whittling away mid-skilled routine jobs while expanding those requiring both high and low skills.
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Erasure is the softer, snobbier name for a form of poetry made by whittling down the words in a found document.
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When whittling down the number of options, however, the mathematical approach was to chuck more assumptions and equations at the problem.
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But with consumption now running faster than production the market is steadily whittling away the excess inventories accumulated in 2015/2016.
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But the central bank is likely to hold off on whittling down its massive stimulus with inflation distant from its target.
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The panel published a list of 40 possible designs in August 2015, before whittling it down to a shortlist of five.
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Although gloomier economic prospects could keep the central bank from whittling down stimulus, the threshold for further monetary easing is high.
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Can he effectuate the winnowing out and whittling down of the Democratic candidates that he fears most in a general election?
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Dr. Janet Woodcock, a senior F.D.A. official, told the committee that the agency was making swift progress in whittling down the backlog.
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As anyone desperately attempting to shed a few pounds can attest, whittling yourself down to your goal weight is no easy feat.
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After closing 22017 stores in 1.333, Kohl's executives said on Thursday that the chain will continue whittling its square footage over time.
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Lawyers and US District Judge Richard Gergel on Monday were supposed to start whittling 241 potential jurors down to a manageable number.
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When the Thunder threatened late in the fourth, whittling the lead to 4 on a short jumper by Kevin Durant, Curry emerged.
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Ukrainian officials say Russia is disregarding that treaty and asserting control over the Sea of Azov and whittling away at Ukrainian sovereignty.
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We went for five weeks this year of intense watching and arguing and whittling down everything to the nominees for each category.
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Mr Kavanaugh, for his part, has called Roe "settled law", which lends credence to the idea that whittling away is the likely approach.
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Imagine whittling down your phone bill, internet bill and cable bill to just one monthly $29.99 payment by tethering everything to one device.
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After whittling down his contestants, he ultimately got down on one knee and proposed to Villalobos — less than an hour after meeting her.
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A White House spokesperson said the whittling down of committees was necessary since a review had not taken place since the Clinton administration.
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A disclaimer: whittling this down to merely 15 songs feels insulting, but we could be here all day when it comes Umlaut Jaÿ.
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The whittling away of the mortgage interest deduction gives homeowners one more reason to stay put, said Svenja Gudell, chief economist at Zillow.
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Tuttle, now an expert coach with Fortuna Admissions, recommends ticking off every possible thing you could include before whittling it down to 25.
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For some, whittling down every expense to the bare minimum would turn those years leading up to financial freedom into a miserable slog.
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But he said conditions are not rife yet for the BOJ to debate a specific timing for whittling down its massive stimulus programme.
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Under a succession of leaders, the company has announced the sale or spinoff of enormous divisions, whittling down operations like finance and energy.
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In state elections the BJP made further inroads, whittling Congress's share of state governments to just three out of India's 36 states and territories.
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Simpson's punishment for beating his wife years before her murder, for example, is whittling away community service hours by organizing a celebrity golf tournament.
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Deep-sea currents, salt corrosion, and metal-eating bacteria are whittling away the wreckage, which lies more than 2 miles under the ocean surface.
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Behind the blond-wood bar at Anyway Café, the bartender is whittling a horseradish root, slicing off long pale strips with a little knife.
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The gentle scent made my entire apartment smell great, and it burned evenly without whittling down the wick at all even after several hours.
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According to Mixmag, the duo (comprised of Patrick Bodmer and Philipp Jung) created 50 tracks for the album before whittling it down to 12.
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Video game composers had to get creative to make stuff fit, with one whittling down the samples he used to single cycles of waveforms.
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Regulators thwarted its attempts to sell to Walgreens Boots Alliance, whittling a down a sale of its entire 4,600 footprint to just 1,932 stores.
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George Mason cut into Maryland's 12-point halftime lead, whittling it down to 93-35 on Javon Greene's layup with 18:20 to play.
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Let's just say that ABC producers definitely have their work cut out for them when it comes to whittling down the options for Season 15.
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Then Roof and prosecution team can dismiss jurors they don't like, whittling the pool down to a final total of 12 jurors and six alternates.
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Whittling down the nuclear arsenal to tidy number like 100 sounds nice; it's certainly the kind of number that looks good at the negotiations table.
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By whittling down the human subjects to their faceless limbs, photographer Denise Kwong creates a space that is raw, slightly ominous, and restrained of showiness.
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Organizers review 1,200 potential entries for its classic car competition before whittling that number down to about 200 of the world's best-preserved classic cars.
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This summer Facebook also announced it was whittling down the targeting categories advertisers can use — shaving more than 5,000 targeting options to "help prevent misuse".
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Uber is still whittling down candidates for the CEO role, and whoever takes the job will do so knowing Kalanick remains on the company's board.
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Davies, 55, will be tasked with the challenge of whittling down Kier's 180 million pound ($239 million) debt pile and rebuilding confidence in the company.
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I kept whittling down my dream from literary fame to modest riches to just getting a book deal to, finally, simply writing a good book.
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This all contributes to whittling away at the reality of racism itself, that it even exists in nearly the proportions which social scientists have documented.
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It's unfortunate he went the opposite route, whittling away investments that strengthen our nation and give every person a better chance at a better life.
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The process required digitizing 300 hours of existing footage from the era, conducting roughly 100 hours of filmed interviews, and whittling that down to six episodes.
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Game three started out even for the two teams until TSM pulled out ahead, whittling away Cloud03 for another win to put the series 2-1.
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The dollar rose 30 percent in the three years from 2014 to 2016, whittling away FX intervention-fueled demand for U.S. bonds from foreign central banks.
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Agostino, as was traditional, had "roughed out" the block at the quarry — a quick whittling down to leave only what was necessary for the eventual statue.
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Instead of delaying the session or scrambling to find a singer, Brodsky opted to take up the position, whittling Cave In down to a four-piece.
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Whittling all women down into these binary categories — saying we're either an Ayesha Curry type or a Kim Kardashian — is a gross simplification of gendered sexuality.
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The company has shuttered more than 120 locations since 2015, hoping that by whittling down its real estate portfolio it can focus on its best assets.
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When the focus is on whittling hard-fought human and worker rights — a concept whose roots reach back to the French Revolution — tensions can boil over.
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The Solomon Islands government voted on Monday unanimously to establish diplomatic relations with Beijing over Taipei, whittling Taiwan's already shrinking number of allies down to 16.
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Britain's ruling Conservative Party has spent this month whittling leadership candidates down from an extraordinary 10 — these times need heroes — to Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt.
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The company is also whittling down its costs selling the crop nutrient, as it has ramped up production at its expanded lowest-cost mine at Rocanville, Saskatchewan.
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Lamborghini closes off half the track, whittling the asphalt down to a 1.2-mile Indy Car Series-sanctioned race track that is then marked off and timed.
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For example, French presidential elections aim to minimise vote-splitting by whittling the field down to two candidates, who then face each other in a run-off.
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If you're whittling down your student loan debt, Tina recommends organizing your payoff strategy and figuring out how much you can put toward student loan payments ASAP.
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The watchdog also said that the EU's banks are still improving their resilience to shocks and whittling away at their 893 billion euro mountain of bad loans.
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In interviews, trading executives at Wall Street banks said they are not expecting much to happen just because the Fed is finally whittling down its balance sheet.
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General Miller, a Special Operations officer by profession, has a reputation for whittling down military units and commands to "trim the fat" and best accomplish their mission.
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From age 17 to 23 he was on the seas, and he probably picked up from fellow sailors the practice of whittling flotsam into small wood figurines.
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Because the new laws of the country are completely against racism and our Constitution is anti-racism, and it calls for equality, so we're whittling it down.
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The Knicks scored only 2 points during one stretch that consumed nearly seven minutes of the fourth quarter, and the Pacers kept whittling away at their deficit.
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With submissions opening in March, novels were entered from 42 different publishers in eight languages, with a jury of five whittling submissions down to a final winner.
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Those include supply disruptions from Iran, which faces the threat of renewed U.S. sanctions, and Venezuela, where economic crisis is whittling away its ability to pump oil.
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Switching off telomerase activity in cancer cells would shorten their telomeres, whittling them down to a nub called a "critical length," which then triggers programmed cell death.
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Consider the editor faced with whittling down the notes that H.L. Mencken appended to the three memoirs he published during his lifetime, from 1200 pages to 200.
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By then, rumors had spread through the betting underworld, whittling a 10-point spread for a Bears win down to 7.5 as everyone learned the fix was in.
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"Tax planning is more about whittling over time than grand gestures at the last minute," said certified financial planner Lynn Ballou, a regional director with EP Wealth Advisors.
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Spectral stages this all pretty much exactly like Aliens, building up a group of largely indistinguishable multicultural soldiers, then whittling them down to a few tough, angry survivors.
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Such projections will underscore a dominant market view that heightening risks and soft inflation will keep major central banks from whittling down crisis-mode policies any time soon.
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White nose syndrome has killed an estimated 6 million bats in the US and Canada, whittling some bat colonies down to just 10 percent of their historic numbers.
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Nonetheless, top unicorns, such as Uber (Disclosure: a Menlo Ventures portfolio company) and Snapchat, continued to attract all the money they needed, whittling funds available for smaller startups.
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But Sebastian still looks out for his little sister and gives her tips on learning the new activities, like how to properly hold the pocket knife while whittling.
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The results of their bets will be interesting — is the response to a changing market a huge merger (à la Dell), or whittling down (like H.P.E. and Intel)?
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Mechanization, environmental regulations and increased global competition have been slowly whittling away at resource extraction economies and driving jobs from rural communities for most of the 20th century.
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It is not the Swiss Army knife your dad carried, handy for whittling marshmallow-roasting spears and cutting Christmas tree cords off the roof of the family car.
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I have fantasized about sawing the Confederates off my family tree, thereby whittling the branches down to Swedish Baptists who would frown upon my godless, low-key life.
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Six curators scoured some 2140 cities, from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, examining works by hundreds of artists and whittling the selection down to 2227 works in seven representative categories.
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Some of that time she said, was taken up with whittling her original list of 50 jewelers down to the 14 ethical makers and designers in the book.
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But instead of an easy blowout win or Louisville, the Zips started whittling away their deficit and crept within 211-218 on Jackson's basket with 216:15 left.
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The current administration, whittling away at the programs in the school, according to the strike call, is engaged in "bad faith bargaining" moves that threaten these crucial achievements.
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The end-to-end encrypted chat service previously allowed users to forward up to 250 messages to users or groups, eventually whittling that number down to 20 last year.
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Market pros have been looking for information on when the Fed could stop or slow the whittling away at its balance sheet, which it has done by lowering reinvestments.
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China has some 13 million homes vacant - enough to house the families of several small countries - and whittling down the excess is among Chinese policymakers top priorities for 2016.
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To kick off the second half of Train, Olofmeister set up on top of a train on Bombsite B and fired into Na'Vi's smokescreen, whittling down the team's health.
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This is the paradox of genre formation; a genre doesn't emerge from one leading game through pure repetition, but by a process of whittling down to what truly matters.
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China has further pressured Tsai, who is up for re-election in January, her by whittling away Taiwan's last remaining diplomatic allies, most recently the Solomon Islands and Kiribati.
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Called in to steady the ship, Marin orchestrated a deft restructuring, refinancing three times, whittling down the imperious debt load to a more manageable $1.2 billion, and avoiding bankruptcy.
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Amazon said it received 238 bids from across North America and is whittling down the list to a group of finalists, with a winner to be announced next year.
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The butt of bad press over his seaside vacation during a French economic downturn in 19803, Mr. Hollande started whittling down his holidays to about a week per summer.
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Taiwan-China ties have soured since Tsai took office in 2016, with China cutting off formal dialogue, flying bomber patrols around Taiwan, and whittling away at its diplomatic allies.
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Probably not, but Evo is always a place for mega upsets – especially when you're whittling down more than 5,000 entrants to eight in two long days of Street Fighter.
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Instead, the "That's What I Love About Sunday" crooner turned to his family, his faith and an unexpected hobby: whittling wood found on his farm outside Nashville into handcrafted items.
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Around the time of Monday's press conference, there was concern the Senate may be in session around the clock and into Friday, whittling through a slate of circuit court nominations.
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She describes habitual trips to her primary care physician, who tried to treat her ear infections or fevers, without knowing that a rare disease was whittling away at her spine.
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After suffering calamitous routs in the last two mid-term elections, Democrats have a realistic shot at winning back the Senate and whittling down the GOP's 61-seat House majority.
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Snax knew one hit would take him down so he opened fire and wove back and forth, dodging every single shot from Pyth, whittling him down for the round win.
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They say they are seeking to diversify their economies away from oil rents; they are also whittling away generous subsidies and plan a new value-added tax across the GCC.
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The anonymous poster's lower bound proves that this whittling down couldn't possibly save more than about 40 million episodes — but that's enough to get a nice start on season two.
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Also, China has also been whittling down the number of countries that recognize Taiwan - now just 18 - with Burkina Faso and the Dominican Republic switching relations to Beijing this year.
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China has been waging a diplomatic war with Taiwan for years, whittling away at the international standing of its neighbor by getting Taiwanese diplomatic allies to switch ties to China.
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In Rome, women met in a downtown square, where they took aim at Italy's populist government, which has been accused of whittling away at measures that protect women and migrants.
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China has repeatedly sent military aircraft and ships to circle Taiwan during drills in recent years and worked to isolate the island internationally, whittling down its few remaining diplomatic allies.
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After whittling down submissions to a shortlist of five artists, New York City has chosen Amanda Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous to build a monument to America's first Black congresswoman, Shirley Chisholm.
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China has repeatedly sent military aircraft and ships to circle Taiwan on exercises in the past few years and worked to isolate it internationally, whittling down its few remaining diplomatic allies.
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The CGE approach creates a bigger role for government oversight, while acknowledging that a market-based approach represents the best chance of creating wealth and whittling away at extreme economic disparities.
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Pitting pup against pup, this thunderdome forces its audience to evaluate the goodness of dogs against each other, whittling them down in a brutal competition to find the Best in Show.
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But the "national team" that helped rescue equities in 2015 has been whittling down its holdings (see chart), and it appeared to stay on the sidelines during the recent sell-off.
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China has repeatedly sent military aircraft and ships to circle Taiwan on exercises in the past few years and worked to isolate it internationally, whittling down its few remaining diplomatic allies.
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Many of them believe the Republican Party needs to have a serious debate this year about whittling down a platform that has grown long and become riddled with special-interest additions.
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This means she's more than capable of parsing through the 30-plus men who will be arriving at the mansion come her season and whittling them down to her final soulmate.
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Among other things, the branch is responsible for drawing up a preliminary list and whittling it down to the final five documentaries for the rest of the Academy to vote on.
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The way he's treated his Supreme Court picks — putting out lists, whittling down the finalists, and announcing his decisions during primetime hours — has an Apprentice-like air to it as well.
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Taiwan has been trying to shore up its diplomatic alliances amid pressure from China, which has been whittling down its few remaining diplomatic allies, especially in the Caribbean and Latin America.
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China has repeatedly sent military aircraft and ships to circle Taiwan during drills in the past few years and worked to isolate the island internationally, whittling down its few remaining diplomatic allies.
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Huawei still has the option to use the open-source variety of Android, but Google has been gradually whittling all of the attractive components away from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).
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Any reduction in the commitment to whittling down a public debt, that at twice the size of the economy is the worst among major economies, could risk damaging investor confidence in Japan.
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And during Trump era, the deficit started to increase to levels not seen since the Bush administration — despite him vowing to "start whittling it down, and as fast as possible" in 2017.
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Chic, however, had a different vision: Rodgers and Edwards reimagined the disco's inherent excess by whittling down the style to funky, minimalist grooves that managed to be both organic and deeply danceable.
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What is currently altering the dynamics of the race and whittling down Clinton's lead is the attraction of younger voters to the third-party candidates, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Jill Stein.
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Fallout from the doping program has for years been whittling away at the number of Russian medals won at the 2014 games the country hosted in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
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In an interview with the paper, Amamiya ruled out the possibility of a near-term exit from ultra-easy policy, saying that whittling down stimulus prematurely could push Japan back into deflation.
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When he realizes his movie is shifting around production to give him time to heal, therefore whittling down his make-or-break role, the actor starts popping painkillers to get back on set.
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After the top picks are tabulated by Deloitte, hand-picked group of voting members, whose identities remain private, are instrumental in whittling down the actual ballot used during the second round of voting.
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That, for me, has been the hardest thing: really whittling down my voice to just that filigree of a sound, singing on what I would call a thin edge of the vocal cord.
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The latest whittling down of the criminal case is another blow to Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, in one of the most notable white-collar cases filed by his office.
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The game has been out for over 20 years but the speedrunning community is still whittling down its world record time thanks to newly discovered glitches and seemingly limitless room for route optimizations.
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The first round of voting among Conservative lawmakers to begin whittling down the field to two candidates, who will then be put to a vote of party members, will take place on Thursday.
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Designer Sandy Powell came under fire for whittling Cinderella's waistline in the show-stopping blue ballgown (all 270 yards of it), but the costumes were lush enough that they got an Oscar nomination.
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Your Money Adviser Now that the holiday spending party is over and credit card statements are landing in mailboxes, consumers would be wise to start whittling their balances, financial advisers and analysts say.
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But officials are sufficiently confident in the health of the economy to start whittling away at the $4 trillion bond portfolio, which was accumulated during the crisis to help hold down borrowing costs.
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And what about those who may be in the middle of the admissions process, at this busy time of year when colleges are whittling down the number of applications and sending acceptance letters?
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China has repeatedly sent military aircraft and ships to circle the island on drills in the past few years and worked to isolate the island internationally, whittling down its few remaining diplomatic allies.
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A year ago, COO and investor David Sacks took over as CEO and began whittling the company down, at first by offering employees a chance to voluntarily resign, then with rounds of layoffs.
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Mississippi had already adopted a ban on abortions after 20 weeks, a measure that, along with several other restrictions, played a role in whittling abortion access in the state down to a single clinic.
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In whittling down its laptop lineup to just the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, Apple has returned to its core strength of offering simplicity in a world that's overwhelmed by model names and numbers.
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Amazon has been whittling away at this question for years with its Kindle lineup, which seeks to offer a reading experience that is as good, if not better than, old-fashioned paper and ink.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's annual core consumer inflation slowed in November, reinforcing market expectations the central bank will hold off on whittling down stimulus for a prolonged period as prices remain distant from its target.
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Then start whittling down the major expenses, like the wedding venue, which can cost as much as $22,212, and elaborate floral arrangements, which can set you back another $224,224, to save some serious dough.
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Mr Savage, for his part, worries most about a "slow slide into socialism" akin to "death by a thousand cuts, right, you just keep whittling away at liberty" by, for example, restricting gun sales.
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These new emojis get chosen annually by the Unicode Consortium, a group that considers proposals from anyone who submits—which can make them slightly more inclusive—before whittling the list down to 50-100.
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Markets are on the lookout for clues from BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's post-meeting briefing on how long the central bank could hold off on whittling down stimulus given recent disappointingly weak price growth.
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Letters To the Editor: I am sure that "Whittling a New York Minute to 100 Billionths of a Second" (front page, June 30) is "Precisely What Wall Street Wants," as your online headline declared.
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Beijing has regularly sent military aircraft and ships to circle the island on drills in the past few years and has heaped pressure on Taiwan internationally, including whittling down its few remaining diplomatic allies.
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Although the economy has been growing at an annual rate of 5 percent in recent years, inflation, partly caused by drought, is whittling away at Kenya's fragile middle class and creating a vast underclass.
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And, at a time of year when colleges are whittling down the mountain of applications and sending out acceptance letters, they're having to look for prospective students who might be connected to the scandal.
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At the rose ceremony, a calmer Hannah addresses her 23 men, whittling them down to 20 (maybe the yelling with Kevin, nuggets with Cam, and massage from Luke P. really made for the perfect relaxants).
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When he sat by the fire in the evenings, his hands were always working, whittling some new little toy for me or something for my mother, a decoration on a chair or a wooden spoon.
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Opposition parties have seized on the issue ahead of three big state elections this year and the national election in 2019, whittling into support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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The president had spent the past week whittling down his list of contenders from an initial group of 25 conservative legal figures to four federal appeals court judges: Kavanaugh, Barrett, Raymond Kethledge and Thomas Hardiman.
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Retailers including Ascena Retail Group, Mattress Firm, The Children's Place, Gap, J Crew and Bon-Ton are in the midst of longer-term store closure initiatives, whittling off square footage at a slightly slower pace.
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A&M-CC ran its lead to as many as 11 points, at 37-26, on a pair of free throws by Hairston two minutes into the second half before the Aggies started whittling away.
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I came of age in the culture wars of the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan planned to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, and, instead, ended up whittling down its budget by a small percentage.
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Beijing has regularly sent military aircraft and ships to circle the island on drills in the past few years and has heaped pressure on the island internationally, including whittling down its few remaining diplomatic allies.
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She later exchanged her corporate position for labor-ready ones to help facilitate her training schedule, and after further whittling down her work obligations over time, Hales now works as a full-time jiu jitsu instructor.
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China has heaped pressure on Tsai since she took office in 2016, cutting off dialogue, whittling down Taiwan's few remaining diplomatic allies and forcing foreign airlines to list Taiwan as part of China on their websites.
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For the common folk, this involves lots of training and fighting and weapons making and giant stick-whittling, but for the main characters, it mostly means chugging fermented goat's milk and hooking up on hay bales.
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Through attrition (Apple now auto-removes a lot of apps that don't conform to the latest iOS, marking each removal with a cloud icon) and a little whittling, over the years, the number fell below 500.
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Miles away from a traditional damsel in distress, she is refreshingly calm, tough, quick-thinking and competent, whether she is whittling a crutch into a sharpened stake or fashioning a hazmat suit from a shower curtain.
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While Congress failed to fully repeal the A.C.A. last year, the Trump administration has been busily whittling away health care benefits, disingenuously arguing that these changes will help working-class families by lowering health care costs.
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"The Trump administration has been whittling away at the basic rights of women and children since they came into office," said Michelle Brané, director of the migrant rights and justice program at the Women's Refugee Commission.
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Politico reports that, according to "those briefed on his strategy," Rubio plans to concentrate his fire on Cruz, keeping to his plan of whittling the race to a two-man affair between him and the frontrunner Trump.
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Just months ago, Japanese central bankers were debating how they could start whittling down a massive monetary stimulus due to concern over prolonging the pain inflicted on financial institutions' profits by years of near-zero interest rates.
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Reality TV still surrounds us; The Public Vote reigns supreme, whittling contestants down episode by episode whether they're dancers, ice-skaters, or celebrities who have gone in the Australian jungle to eat lizard butt for a bit.
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Over the last few years, many people in Hong Kong have become concerned about the whittling away of the city's freedoms, guaranteed under a "one country, two systems" formula established when it returned to China in 1997.
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But the BOJ stressed anew that global risks were increasing as trade tensions and uncertainty over U.S. economic policies jolt financial markets, signalling that it, too, is leaning more toward ramping up - not whittling down - monetary support.
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But thanks to a new technological trend, financial institutions will be able to arm themselves with the ability to have these large, unpliable numbers transformed into useable information, thus whittling down the traditionally high cost of compliance.
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EU defence ministers including Britain's Michael Fallon will discuss Franco-German proposals in the hope of whittling down a host of ideas into a coherent strategy for their leaders to formally back at a summit in December.
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Mr. Costa made up for the givebacks with cuts in infrastructure and other spending, whittling the annual budget deficit to less than 1 percent of its gross domestic product, compared with 4.4 percent when he took office.
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Months into the presidential race, with the pool of Democratic candidates whittling down to 12 from 28, one of the leading contenders at long last directly answered that question during the debate in Iowa on Tuesday night.
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The play is set partly in a waiting room like so many that migrants pass through, where they fill out forms, whittling the details of intricate lives into facts terse enough to fit in the space provided.
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But the BOJ stressed anew that global risks were increasing as trade tensions and uncertainty over U.S. economic policies jolt financial markets, signaling that it, too, is leaning more toward ramping up - not whittling down - monetary support.
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The government could balance its budget at a lower oil price and with that deficit only if the central bank allowed the ruble to decline against the dollar, further whittling away the value of Russians' wages and pensions.
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These genes made the whittling process a little confusing at first — if one of the redundant genes was removed (but not the other), the cell would continue functioning, tricking the researchers into believing it was a nonessential gene.
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But the central bank stressed anew that global risks were increasing as trade tensions and uncertainty over U.S. economic policies jolt financial markets, signaling that it, too, is leaning more toward ramping up - not whittling down - monetary support.
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The risk of a further escalation in trade conflict and a softness in Chinese data has kept the dollar supported with investors whittling down their positions in Asian currencies in favour of the euro and the Swiss franc.
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After years of whittling down the Super Mario 133 213-star speedrun time to under 23 hour and 27 minutes — a feat achieved in August 2015 — the race was on to take another 60 seconds off the clock.
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LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan became the first G20.765 nation to auction 210-year government bonds at a negative yield on Tuesday, but a relentless whittling down of global inflation meant investors still lapped up the highly rated debt.
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But the central bank stressed anew that global risks were increasing as trade tensions and uncertainty over U.S. economic policies jolt financial markets, signalling that it, too, is leaning more toward ramping up - not whittling down - monetary support.
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Mr. Trump, a reality television star whose show "The Apprentice" was based on whittling down contenders, is fond of reminding people that, at one point, there were 17 candidates, most of whom he helped drive from the race.
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Tsai has said she wants to maintain the status quo with China but will defend Taiwan's security and democracy, especially in the face of ramped up Chinese pressure such as whittling down Taiwan's dwindling band of diplomatic allies.
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In whittling the list down of toy ideas, both Spin Master and WowWee executives consider market analytics, retail experts (from the likes of Amazon, Walmart and Target) and feedback from kids who try out early iterations of toys.
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Throughout the fight, the main character Sekiro is just hacking away at this beast's legs and body, tiring it out and whittling its lifeforce down until horse and master have no choice but to give in, defeated and bloodied.
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Beijing has also been whittling down its huge corn stockpiles, but the world's No. 2 consumer of the grain will likely sell off the last of its ageing stocks this year, an agriculture ministry official said earlier this year.
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WASHINGTON — Detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, could plead guilty to criminal charges in civilian court via video teleconference under a provision being considered by the Senate that could open a new avenue to whittling down the prison's remaining population.
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The eight-point decline this month suggests that repeated attacks from moderate candidates like former Vice President Joe Biden over its substantial cost and ongoing concerns of ending private insurance may be whittling down support for Medicare for All.
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Credit Suisse's restructuring programme was widely hailed for reducing the bank's reliance on volatile trading, whittling down costs and boosting cooperation between its investment banking and wealth management arms, although Thiam acknowledged on Wednesday that it had been tough.
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TOKYO, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday the central bank will take plenty of time in whittling down its purchases of exchange-traded funds (ETF), if the appropriate time to do so arrives.
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Stronger earnings could give a further boost to fixed-asset investment, which quickened early in the year, and give China's "smokestack" industries more cash flow to start whittling away at a mountain of debt — a top government priority this year.
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Perspective engineers describe moderating hate speech with and without ML using a haystack analogy: AI helps by automating the sorting process, whittling vast haystacks down while still giving humans the final say over whether a comment is considered abusive or harassment.
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After years of whittling her middle with the help of that medieval torture apparatus fashioned out of industrial spandex more commonly referred to as a waist trainer, her latest piece of apparel probably barely even registers on her radar of discomfort.
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The Supreme Court followed up on Walmart v Dukes (when it rebuffed 1.5m female employees' claim that Walmart discriminated against them) by whittling away at class-action litigation for a second time in 2011, as well as in 2012 and 203.
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In the past, many of the TIU challenges have focused on literally whittling your body away, and participants were encouraged to measure their body parts in order to track progress — they even sell branded tape measures for this exact task!
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The information captured by the sensor is whittled and shaped to something more manageable in size, but in that whittling and shaping is a ton of room for what amounts to editorial choices by the designers of the camera systems.
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Gallagher clearly struggles with the task of whittling in the 2 hours, 21-min video, and the shavings are displayed in a large decorative glass vase that also features several long drips of the artist's blood, produced during the making process.
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Revenue growth of 216.91 percent and 29 percent, respectively, at Pratt & Whitney and airplane parts maker Rockwell Collins, bode well for a planned split next year, whittling down the company to its core aerospace businesses and spinning off the others.
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Think of Earth thrumming the unholy shit out of a handful of deconstructed Sabbath notions, Raymond Carver whittling down his sentences until they gleam or, heck, Dr Seuss taking a bet that he couldn't write a book using only 50 words.
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Trump has gradually been whittling down a November 2017 list of 25 possibilities to, reportedly, three finalists: current appellate judges Brett Kavanaugh of the DC Circuit; Amy Coney Barrett of the Seventh Circuit; and Raymond Kethledge of the Sixth Circuit.
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LONDON (Reuters) - After whittling down a pile of 155 novels, the judges of the Man Booker Prize are set to unveil this year's winner of a 50,000 sterling ($61,200) award that can have a "seismic" impact on a writer's career.
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While Ted Cruz is out there thinking the world can go back to its old homophobic ways if only people use the bathrooms he thinks they should use, another generation is whittling away at the status quo on Twitter this weekend.
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The decline of support among Democrats this month suggests that repeated attacks from moderate candidates like former Vice President Joe Biden over its substantial cost and ongoing concerns of ending private insurance may be whittling down support for Medicare for All.
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Volkswagen, which is also preparing to launch a new version of its Golf, is whittling down inventories of the old model, helping the German brand to outsell Renault, which posted a 15.8% gain and Hyundai which saw sales rise 13.4%.
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As the cast members have been chatting in their meeting "pods," leaping into blue waters, and bellying up to the altar, the country has been whittling a historically diverse field of Democratic hopefuls down to two old, relatively privileged white guys.
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Solzhenitsyn died in 2008, before Mr. Putin showed his true colors with the coldblooded murders of opposition figures, the creation of an authoritarian state, the invasion of Ukraine and the Crimea, and the whittling down of local democracy in the provinces.
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The Republicans' repeated success in whittling away at the number of people subject to the tax is both a marvel of marketing — with its relabeling as a "death tax" — and a testament to the outsize influence of wealthy donors on policy.
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Curbing excess sugar consumption is key to whittling waist lines in the United States, where more than one-third of adults are obese, and to reducing the prevalence of heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer.
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Little by little, sickness, fear and police harassment are whittling down the migrant caravan making its way to the U.S. border, with many of the 26,2003 to 2200,23 migrants camped overnight under plastic sheeting in a town in southern Mexico complaining of exhaustion.
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HSN Star Joy Mangano Gives 6 Smart Packing Tips Karin Olofsdotter, 51, the Swedish ambassador to the United States, told the Washington Post that her mother and father, who are in their 80s, are in the middle of whittling down their worldly possessions.
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Its retreat comes on the heels of Boston, Rome and Hamburg canning their bids within the past two years, whittling a once-crowded pool of candidate cities down to only two: Los Angeles—itself a replacement for the torpedoed Boston bid—and Paris.
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Several OPEC members, led by Saudi Arabia and Libya, put enough new barrels on the market in September to offset a drop in production from Iran, where U.S. sanctions are whittling away at that nation's crude exports, according to a monthly report.
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China's Foreign Ministry has also ramped up a decades-long effort to isolate Taiwan diplomatically, significantly whittling down its list of diplomatic allies over the course of 2018, and the Chinese military has held large-scale live-fire drills in the Taiwan Strait.
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The CFPB's unanticipated release of an arbitration rule, recent guidelines released regarding overdraft fee disclosures and work on a rule to police payday and car title loans spurred more rumors that Cordray was whittling down his to-do list before leaving. Rep.
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You can start by making a list of people you already know and whittling it down from there, or you can ask people you trust in your network for introductions to other entrepreneurs whose businesses are in a similar growth stage to yours.
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Like the other items in the gypsy's basket—lucky charms made of recycled tin, bunches of white heather tied with a ribbon and artificial orange flowers, somewhat like chrysanthemums, created by whittling slivers from an elder branch—pegs carried a hint of ancient magic.
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Supporters of the plan envision whittling down the city's inmate population, already at historical lows, and then dispersing the inmates still incarcerated, including those charged with the most serious crimes, to a constellation of modern neighborhood jails in easy proximity to families, lawyers and courthouses.
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"If we don't fix this now, we may not get to 2020 or we won't get there in the way we thought we were as a country — the democracy that we had, or used to have, the whittling away of our rights," Moore said.
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The former Miss Alabama is about to spend two months whittling down over 30 suitors until she finds The One (or, if she pulls a Colton, then just, One), so it's important she uses that time wisely and goes in knowing exactly what she's looking for.
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And it was for all of those reasons that I thought it would never grab hold of me the way games like Skyrim have, whittling away the hours of the night, keeping me pinned in my seat hoping to see the result of just one more quest.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan can come up with new policy steps if it were to ramp up stimulus, said Masazumi Wakatabe, a nominee for deputy governor, in a sign the governor will have a formidable opponent of whittling down its massive bond-buying program.
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Through working with some social psychologists out of Stanford, we spent six months going through them all, whittling them down with focus groups and stuff like that, and [Clippy] came out to be the number one most trustful and engaging and endearing character of them all.
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To be still, even in one's after-supper hours before bed, would be to invite ruination, and so the practice of domestic crafts — typically knitting or embroidery for women, and light woodwork like whittling for men — was an act of resistance to the temptations of evil.
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Two thousand summonses were issued in the hope of getting 500 potential jurors to report Tuesday to the State Supreme Court, where the judge and lawyers for both sides will begin whittling the pool down to 12 people and six alternates, said Lucian Chalfen, a court spokesman.
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The Fed kept interest rates steady on Wednesday but said it was ready to battle risks by cutting rates beginning as early as next month, reinforcing expectations that major central banks have now shifted full gear toward topping up - not whittling down - their crisis-mode policies.
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And though there were fewer shows able to do that than ever before (where I typically have preliminary "best TV" lists of 40 or 50 before whittling them down, I struggled to get to 30 this year), I found it churlish to rank them against each other.
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In Mr. Khatteeb's view, many of the most profound changes under consideration by the government have become necessary: a tax system, the substantial whittling of government payrolls, and a reduction in the fuel subsidies and monthly food rations — sugar, tea, rice and cooking oil — that every Iraqi citizen receives.
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Netflix has been whittling away the ability to offer more than a two-bit opinion on its catalog of films and shows, which, you could argue, makes it a harder for users to let others know how interesting or boring Netflix's ever-growing stable of original content might be.
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The rules for repenting for my dietary sins were simple: At first, I lurked on the hashtag, wondering if I could really spend 296 days whittling down my options for brunch, happy hours and dinners out, the activities that punctuate a workweek and make many of us feel connected.
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BURLINGTON, Iowa — Four weeks before Iowa voters start whittling down the sprawling and fractious Republican presidential field, the nomination fight is taking on a decidedly dark tenor, with candidates warning of a country left weakened by an administration that would prefer to apologize for America rather than keep it safe.
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"There's a lot of boxes," big and small, vacant on the market now, including those of Toys R Us. At the end of the day Kohl's is whittling back its physical footprint — whether by opening new stores or dividing up old ones — and finding ways to be just as productive.
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Another combat move, where you rip the shield away from a powerful enemy and donk them on the head with it after, reminds me of the joy felt in Zelda when, after hours whittling away the health of armoured enemies, you finally get a hookshot and are able to de-shell them instantly.
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M.F.A. programs have propagated a puritan preoccupation with "craft," she wrote in the London Review of Books in 2010, with whittling tidy, teachable, forgettable books while leaving the work of the novel — "the juxtaposition of personal narrative with the facts of the world and the facts of literature" — to memoirs and essays.
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For Uber — which has been whittling down its international footprint in an effort to cut losses — its decision to pull out of Southeast Asia and sell its assets to competitor Grab leaves room for the company to focus on important markets like Latin America as well as the Middle East and India.
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Watch it right here: And now, the brackets... Group A: Sweden, Spain, Canada, Brazil Group B: U.S.A., Russia, Germany, Chile Group C: South Korea, Finland, Australia, Taiwan Group D: China, France, Singapore, Thailand The field was much more crowded with teams back in September, when the process of whittling down a final 16 started.
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Apple has slowly shut down the team behind its three AirPort routers over the past year, Bloomberg reported on Monday, whittling down the company's focus to products like Apple TV. Some features of the devices were only compatible with Apple products, which may have kept users from switching to Android or PCs, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported.
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You have to train hard, sweat often, adopt monk-like discipline in your eating and drinking habits, and improve the quality and quantity of your sleep to even have a shot at whittling your body fat down to that magic percentage where a six-pack begins to materialize: around 15 percent for men and 18 percent for women.
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So this is either a direct assault, which is what the Congress did last week, defund, although Planned Parenthood will continue, it would have continued without the federal funding that is so essential to its operations in many places in the country, or just keep whittling away and make it harder and harder and we have to stand against both of those.
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This is far from the revival's only departure: Whittling the production down to an intermission-free run time of an hour and 220 minutes, van Hove has cut the "Somewhere" ballet along with "I Feel Pretty" (though adored by audiences, Sondheim has said that the song embarrasses him: "I have blushed ever since" writing it, he admitted in 2010's "Finishing the Hat").
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Whole Woman's Health, the clinic suing the state, argues that the law "drastically reduce[s] the number and geographic distribution of abortion facilities in Texas", whittling down the number of clinics to nine (from more than 40) and leaving vast swathes of the state (in the Rio Grande Valley in the south and the El Paso area in the west) without a single facility.
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I'm talking about something reasonable: cooking, whittling, Frasier, board games, supermarket loyalty schemes, anal—it really doesn't matter as long as it's compelling enough to distract you from the fact that literally nothing will ever be as enjoyable as sitting on the couch with a glass of wine in your pajamas at 3 PM, and how upsetting it is that you're not allowed to do that every single day.
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After very publicly documenting her post-baby fitness journey, whittling down her waist thanks to a whole lot of intense early morning training sessions, strict adherence to the no-carb Atkins diet, and a pre-Gala bout of flu which she called an "amazing diet", the mobile mogul decided to indulge, commemorating all of the hard work she's put in to looking so picture perfect with a slice of the Big Apple's signature dish.
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"If the American people don't understand that [Trump] is whittling away at our institutions, our rule of law, he is sowing mistrust among the American people toward one another, he is violating every norm of our values and our common humanity, he is making us a laughingstock and endangering our security around the world — if people don't understand that," she continued, "then we are in for a very, very rocky ride as a country."
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Grand jurors sat for months, hearing evidence; multiple judges, up to and including members of the state's highest court, reviewed and ruled on the case, whittling down the charges; defense lawyers, including, among others, Justine Harris, Florian Miedel and Sam Gregory — who worked at a discount, but not free — filed volumes of motions; the full machinery of the judicial system, including court officers, law clerks and stenographic reporters, was deployed every time there was a hearing.
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All was gold, till ego clashes led to their breakup, with Conner evolving into a solo act called "Conner4Real" and Owen serving as his nearly invisible DJ. (Lawrence moves away to take up a peaceful but depressing life of farming and whittling.) After a disastrous sophomore album sinks Conner's solo career, he and his team flail to mastermind a comeback, preferably one that doesn't involve the Style Boyz reunion everyone but the egotistical Conner seems to want.
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Of the four candidates to succeed Japan's Yukiya Amano, who died in office in July, Argentina's ambassador to the IAEA Rafael Grossi and Amano's former right-hand man, Cornel Feruta of Romania, came far ahead of their other rivals, the IAEA said here Grossi, a veteran of nuclear diplomacy who is widely believed to have secured the United States' support, received the most votes in the so-called "straw poll" aimed at whittling down the field, with 15 countries backing him.
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This week will see the Conservatives start the process of whittling down the candidates to succeed Cameron, who has said he will leave it to his successor to withdraw from the EU. Theresa May, a party stalwart who has run the law-and-order portfolio in the cabinet for six years, is the favourite to succeed Cameron despite having campaigned to remain in the EU. She is opposed by four other candidates, including Justice Secretary Michael Gove, a Leave campaigner who caused high political drama last week by turning against his ally, former London mayor Boris Johnson, driving him from the race.
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