Whittling down this list to 41 athletes was no easy feat.
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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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In whittling down al-Nuwayri's opus, his selections skew to the crowd-pleasing.
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Here are four things to keep in mind when whittling down what you owe.
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Tory MPs will begin whittling down the candidates on Tuesday to a shortlist of two.
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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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While the BOJ likely won't ease policy, the hurdle for whittling down stimulus is quite high.
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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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The endgame, critics say, is a whittling down of scientific credibility that can help loosen environmental regulations.
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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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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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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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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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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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Six nations over the past four years have de-recognized Taiwan, whittling down its formal diplomatic contacts to 22019.
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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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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 the central bank is likely to hold off on whittling down its massive stimulus with inflation distant from its target.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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