The department store chain continues to whittle away at its store fleet,.
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After that, green energy is expected to whittle away at demand for fossil fuels.
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What better way to whittle away the summer than by embarking on a reading project?
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But their initiatives skew the market, whittle away public land, and leave out entire communities.
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In the long term, "peak demand" threatens to whittle away at the value of oil.
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Recent weeks have seen Elizabeth Warren whittle away at Bernie Sanders' lead among progressive Democratic voters.
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Perhaps. But watching our share of the voting public whittle away each election cycle is worse.
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Watch out for high mutual fund and management fees, which can whittle away at your savings.
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"You can't sculpt that with pie dough, so you have to whittle away the dough instead."
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More importantly, expect the Powerwall to whittle away at the reasons not to own an electric car.
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When Venus, or any planet, is retrograde, things whittle away, and Venus is the planet of money.
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The drop in Saudi shipments in recent months could soon help to whittle away at those inventory levels.
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Ezra Callahan was roommates with Sean Parker and was hired to "whittle away" at Eduardo Saverin's CFO responsibilities.
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I'm trying to whittle away at my nihilism (both the personal and the political) in other small ways.
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Why wouldn't we want to whittle away institutional glut to make the government more responsive to public demand?
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It heralds, instead, a threat to abortion access that could more subtly whittle away at the right Roe protects.
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Some EU banks are still recovering from the financial crisis as they whittle away piles of poorly performing loans.
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Rising exports will help whittle away at brimming U.S. crude prices, helping to reduce a global oversupply and push up prices.
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But things change in a seven-game series, when coaches have time to whittle away at the other side's primary weaknesses.
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These armies are then matched up against each other, with heroes automatically battling it out to whittle away at each other's life.
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The airline also claims an upgraded food menu and a range of entertainment options will help whittle away the many hours on board.
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At the same time, there continue to be developments that will whittle away at Spotify's, Pandora's and other streaming companies already thin margins.
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Oil prices have been recovering throughout the last year as OPEC, Russia and other producers limit their output to whittle away at oversupply.
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But most Republicans, if they had the chance, would whittle away at them and that is something the American people do not want.
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And there's a fine argument to be made that the point is to whittle away at Americans' belief in any kind of objective truth.
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Regulators want markets to whittle away outstanding Libor contracts that go beyond the end of 2021, and avoid adding new contracts to the stockpile.
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Instead, they aimed to test the Supreme Court's willingness to whittle away at women's access to abortion in the name of protecting their health.
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Already, brokers are wrestling with declining stock-trading commissions with volumes low as calm stock markets glide higher and competitive electronic markets whittle away fees.
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But for others, Mr. Trump's place on the ballot could help preserve some newly vacant Republican seats and help whittle away at the Democratic majority.
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But that won't stop them from belittling the process and, by extension, degrading the Constitution, if they can whittle away public trust in our institutions.
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Maybe you're not quite ready to whittle away your weekends watching the best HBO show of the 1990s, or catching up on a 200-episode NBC sitcom.
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Discrimination becomes more costly during periods of full employment, and continued strength in the labor market will continue to whittle away at this and other similar gaps.
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In March, Beijing announced that it "restored" relations with Gambia, proving to Taiwan (after Tsai's January election) that it was willing to whittle away at its international recognition.
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Oil supply cuts this year have helped to whittle away an excess of inventories built up following a global supply glut that began to emerge in late 2014.
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Biden went after Russian President Vladimir Putin by name, saying he is using "every tool" in his power to whittle away the European project, and undermine Western democracies.
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The company has already hinted there will be additional closures to come in 2020 and beyond, as it works to whittle away at its massive real estate footprint.
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But the tariffs would also whittle away that advantage, potentially leaving that oil stranded just as drillers work through the bottlenecks next year, according to Smith at ClipperData.
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Because of price-matching policies at many traditional retailers — put in place to avoid losing sales to competitors — peddling popular national brands can likewise whittle away at their margins.
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Instead of using sword chops to whittle away at each enemy's health, you're slowly degrading their posture — their ability to fend off your attacks, basically — while maintaining your own.
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Day, the reigning P.G.A. Championship titleholder, covered the first nine holes in four-under 210 to whittle away at the nine-stroke deficit he faced at the round's start.
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And Pelosi has plenty of tools with which to whittle away at the opposition number, not least of all assigning committee posts, selecting office space and naming special appointments.
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Young adult literature, Hopper observes, is especially suited to assuage the anguish of an inexorably vigorous illness, one that threatens to whittle away at a body until it yields.
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Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, but the court's conservatives could instead whittle away at the decision by upholding abortion restrictions without taking the final step of overturning it.
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Here are three reasons to be confident in the industry's prospects: First, while bankruptcies and store closings are certainly painful, they are helping whittle away at retail's overcapacity problem.
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If a player crafts or acquires a pocketed piece of armor and rapidly equips and unequips it, the game glitches out and begins to whittle away at the carrying limit.
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Startups like NextVR were able to whittle away at their ambitions of becoming a hub for live VR entertainment by steadily building up partnerships with sports leagues and entertainment companies.
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Brent crude hit a new four-year high of $21.4 on Wednesday, fueled by concerns about a shortfall in global supply as U.S. sanctions whittle away at Iranian crude exports.
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Russia is threatening the "liberal international order": Biden went after Putin directly, and said he's using "every tool" in his power to whittle away at Europe and undermine Western democracies.
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To start with, the contest will be fought out among the 313 Conservative lawmakers who whittle away the candidates in a series of ballots, finally reducing the field to a select two.
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The firms or people who come up with new ideas can only capture a small share of the benefits arising from them; before long, competitors copy their brainwave and whittle away the innovators' profits.
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That could whittle away a big chunk of what makes big tech so valuable, both because Europe is a large market, and because regulators elsewhere may see Europe's actions as a model to copy.
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Several forensic anthropologists, all trained by Burns and Snow and none of them much older than Peccerelli, were using paintbrushes and chopsticks to whittle away at dirt embedded in eye sockets, skulls and femurs.
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The firms or individuals that come up with new ideas can only ever capture a small share of the benefits arising from them; before long, competitors copy the original brainwave and whittle away innovators' profits.
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I used to be able to sit quietly in the window seat, or on the bench under the same window in the long summer, and whittle away at words, frown over rhyme schemes and assonances.
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But if you're a pessimist, you could read ominous undertones into premium Firefox as the start of browsers pivoting toward becoming yet another subscription service as Chrome's competitors try to whittle away at its dominance.
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Sometimes I would leave a lane undefended so I could focus on the other two, other times I would focus down one lane so I could destroy a tower and whittle away at the core.
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I'm not angry, or mean, or dealing with a terribly uncomfortable underwire — I'm just trying to get from one place to another without allowing the onslaught of unwanted comments from total strangers to whittle away at me.
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Oil supply cuts led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries this year have helped to whittle away an excess of inventories which built up following a supply glut that began to emerge in late 2014.
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For its part, the Federal Reserve is moving rates back to a more normal level and trying to whittle away at its massive balance sheet, taking advantage of current economic strength, higher inflation and favorable market conditions.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will visit one of the island's oldest and most reliable diplomatic allies next month, amid growing pressure from China to whittle away the number of countries with which Taiwan has formal ties.
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"Under President Putin, Russia is working with every tool available to them to whittle away at the edges of the European project, test the fault lines of western nations and return to a politics defined by spheres of influence," Biden said.
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Democrats had spent a nervous September watching that lead whittle away after Mrs Clinton's bout of pneumonia and her impolitic description of a chunk of Mr Trump's supporters as "deplorables" (generating a cottage industry of Republican paraphernalia proudly brandishing the epithet).
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In "So Much Longing in So Little Space" (translated by Ingvild Burkey), Knausgaard's ambition is to whittle away at the legend to arrive at insights about the genesis of the art itself, and not only Munch's art, but all art.
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The whimsical, one-bedroom abode with rounded windows and doorways and hanging lanterns has a fireplace, woodwork bench complete with tools if guests want to whittle away, wooden shower and sink and a designated parking area that's a five minute walk away.
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Supporters of Mr. Trump's Republican challengers refer to them as the "Three Musketeers," and argue that having a trio of challengers — however long their long-shot bids are — could add up to enough of a nuisance to whittle away support for a vulnerable incumbent.
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Yet he vows that as president he will work for the ordinary citizen, root out the country's debilitating corruption and convince a highly skeptical public that, under him, the governing African National Congress can whittle away at the gaping inequality that has enraged millions of citizens.
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If the Iran nuclear deal continues to whittle away, this would create a greater dilemma for the Johnson government: Preserving the status quo would do it no favor in Washington, but abandoning the deal to side with Trump would equally deeply anger the U.K's European partners.
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For 2.23 weeks beginning every fall, millions of Americans plop down in front of their televisions and whittle away their Sundays watching scores of glistening National Football League demigods kick, throw, and intercept oblong balls across the gridiron for the eventual right to be called Super Bowl champion.
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A recent epidemiological study suggests that our beliefs about how much we exercise may substantially influence our health and longevity, even if those beliefs are objectively inaccurate — which hints that upending our thinking about exercise might help us whittle away pounds, whether we work out more or not.
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Why it matters: If these trends continue, they may begin to whittle away at some of the nation's most stubborn problems — that millions of Americans have given up trying to find work after years of unemployment, and a vast number of jobless people lack sufficient skills for the quickly advancing economy.
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So while Mr. Trump and his banker buddies whittle away at Dodd-Frank, they need to do something else as well: junk Wall Street's compensation system, which continues to reward bankers for making big bets with other people's money and does nothing to hold them accountable when the bets go bad.
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Master bargaining also reduces the likelihood that employers will refuse to bargain or seek to whittle away at unionization workplace by workplace.Fairbrother, Peter and Yates, Charlotte. Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study. New York: Routledge, 2003.
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However, according to the Act, Parliament was given the power to change the Cape's voting requirements by a two-thirds vote. Overall the Act did little to protect black Africans, and ultimately enabled the later apartheid government to gradually whittle away and eventually abolish the Cape franchise.
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Kuba provides interpretations of many themes – not to whittle away at each style's characteristic nuances, but to directly accent the finer moods, notes, and harmonies. It is possible to offer an attitude in an understandable form, not pretending to be pretentious, allowing the listener to choose for themselves their own recognizable, acceptable scale.
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In defense of the policy, Diego Abad de Santillán said it was used to be aware of any attempts by the government to conspire to "whittle away the people's rights" and for the CNT to act accordingly.D. Abad de Santillán. Por qué perdimos la guerra. p. 133. Cited in Bolloten, p. 404.
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The civil war between Vulcan's forces and those loyal to the dethroned Lilandra rages on. Led by Havok and the Starjammers, Lilandra's forces gradually whittle away at Vulcan's forces, which are plagued by defections. The Shi'ar, contrary to Vulcan's expectations, are not happy to have an outsider as their ruler. Vulcan is discouraged by this, but Deathbird convinces him that they will come to accept him.
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The civil war between Vulcan's forces and those loyal to the dethroned Lilandra rages on. Led by Havok and the Starjammers, Lilandra's forces gradually whittle away at Vulcan's forces, which are plagued by defections. The Shi`ar, contrary to Vulcan's expectations, are not happy to have an outsider as their ruler. Vulcan is discouraged by this, but Deathbird convinces him that they will come to accept him.
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The civil war between Vulcan's forces and those loyal to the dethroned Lilandra rages on. Led by Havok and the Starjammers, Lilandra's forces gradually whittle away at Vulcan's forces, which are plagued by defections. The Shi'ar, contrary to Vulcan's expectations, are not happy to have an outsider as their ruler. Vulcan is discouraged by this, but Deathbird convinces him that they will come to accept him.
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In Queen's Harvest, the player characters must enter a dead wizard's lair to obtain the dangerous objects he left behind. The characters become embroiled in royal politics as the adventure progresses. The first half of the adventure presents a basic dungeon, while the second half offers an extended siege of an enemy stronghold where the player characters are greatly outnumbered and outgunned. They must slowly whittle away their adversaries, then withdraw to regroup and heal.
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Dionysius decided not to whittle away his strength in futile battles with Motya untaken, so he left enough soldiers to keep the Elymians from making mischief and marched back to Motya. He expected Segesta and the other cities still holding out for Carthage to fold once Motya had fallen.Diodorus Siculus, XIV.49 Dionysius managed to storm and sack Motya after foiling the Himilco led Carthaginian relief effort despite being trapped, and marched back to Syracuse during the winter.
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Much criticized at the time for being inconsistent with Betts, the Bute decision unintentionally established grounds for the Supreme Court to whittle away at Betts, so that by 1962 some legal scholars were already arguing the Court had effectively overruled Betts. Betts and Bute were unanimously overruled Court in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963). Another case decided the same year as Bute illustrates Burton's reliance on personal views as a guide to court action.
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The post-war years were marked by continual expansion of Hudepohl Brewery. The company even purchased a second brewery from a local competitor and operated both plants for many years in order to keep up with demand. However, the late 1950s and early 1960s saw increased market infiltration from national brands such as Schlitz, Pabst, Blatz and Budweiser. Over time many of these brands along with strong regional competitors like Stroh's would whittle away at Hudepohl's dominance of the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky market.
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The loss of the pawn eventually allowed Zappa to whittle away Rybka's defenses and win the game.PGNs of game 3 and 4 with Rybka evaluation, Zappa won both. Rybkaforum.net. Retrieved on October 12, 2013. Then in game 9, Rybka was 3 pawns up with a totally won position, but played a horrific blunder on move 71, "the worst blunder in modern computer chess",Cozzie, Anthony Zappa fillets the Fish as it lacked sufficient knowledge to see a draw would ensue by opposite-color bishops.
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Vito becomes his informal consigliere, replacing Hagen. Michael persuades Vito that it is time to remove the family from the Mafia. At the same time, Michael and Vito secretly plan to eliminate the other New York dons, while allowing them to whittle away at Corleone family interests to lull them into inaction. Vito warns Michael that Barzini will set Michael up to be killed under the guise of a meeting; Barzini will use one of the Corleone Family's most trusted members as an intermediary.
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While O'Halloran had despaired of ever becoming Premier, Labor did manage to whittle away at the LCL's majority during his tenure as opposition leader. Labor went from a ten- seat deficit when O'Halloran took the leadership to only a four-seat deficit at his death. O'Halloran's de facto alliance with Playford also proved beneficial to him personally. For example, O'Halloran had eagerly sought to obtain a papal audience for many years, but had been informed that only Heads of State could be given such an audience.
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Michael returns to the United States sometime between 1949 and early 1951 and assumes Sonny's role as Vito's heir apparent. After Vito's suspicions are confirmed that Don Emilio Barzini (Richard Conte), his main rival in New York City, is the power behind Sollozzo and Tattaglia, he and Michael begin a secret, complex plot to wipe out the other New York Dons. They deliberately allow their rivals to whittle away at Corleone interests to lull them into inaction. Meanwhile, Michael convinces his father that it is time to remove the family from crime.
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The following season, the team made the playoffs for the first time since advancing all the way to the AFC title game in 1999. They qualified as a wild card; however, the season was ended with a 28–3 loss to the New England Patriots. The mantra "keep chopping wood", introduced by Del Rio during the season, was intended to indicate how the team would slowly whittle away the huge obstacles in front of them. Del Rio placed a wooden stump and axe in the Jaguars' locker room as a symbol of his rallying cry.
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Larger cells, and even tissues, can be prepared for CryoET by thinning, either by cryo-sectioning or by focused ion beam (FIB) milling. In cryo-sectioning, frozen blocks of cells or tissue are sectioned into thin samples with a cryo-microtome. In FIB-milling, plunge- frozen samples are exposed to a focused beam of ions, typically gallium, that precisely whittle away material from the top and bottom of a sample, leaving a thin lamella suitable for ECT imaging. The strong interaction of electrons with matter also results in an anisotropic resolution effect.
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During their stay, Andrea observes several of the residents and is impressed with their accuracy with firearms. Rick tells her that there are over thirty residents in the Kingdom who are ready for combat, plus the twenty or so men that Paul is bringing from the Hilltop. She is a little hesitant and worried that they might not have enough manpower, but, Rick assures her that Eugene's ammunition production will help even the score. During a conference between Rick, Ezekiel, and Paul, Andrea agrees with Ezekiel's plan to focus on hitting the Savior outposts and whittle away their numbers.
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Prewar photo of the High Seas Fleet—a member of the leads the line The German Navy's pre-war planning held that the British would be compelled to mount either a direct attack on the German coast to defeat the High Seas Fleet, or to put in place a close blockade. Either course of action would permit the Germans to whittle away at the numerical superiority of the Grand Fleet with submarines and torpedo boats. Once a rough equality of forces could be achieved, the High Seas Fleet would be able to attack and destroy the British fleet.Tarrant, p.
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Justice Scalia reasoned that political patronage has a long heritage in the history of the United States. He argued that the "Spoils System" largely enhanced by President Andrew Jackson was a testament to this heritage. Thus, Justice Scalia would have held that, while the First Amendment applies in full force to private individuals, it is severely restricted in its application for government employees. When weighed against the political heritage of the spoils system that was prevalent at the time the Bill of Rights was drafted, the Court had no authority to whittle away at such a method of determining civil service.
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" At The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis selected the film as her "Critic's Pick" and took notice of its subtle class warfare. In a negative review, David Ehrlich of IndieWire comments that "as the characters whittle away into archetypes (and start making senseless decisions), the spectacle also sheds its unique personality." Kevin Jagernauth of The Playlist wrote: "[Train to Busan] doesn’t add anything significant to the zombie genre, nor has anything perceptive to say about humanity in the face of crisis. Sure, it lacks brains, and that’s the easy quip to make, but what Train To Busan truly needs, and disappointingly lacks, is heart.
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And a saloon owner known only as Murray was badly wounded by the marshals when he began shooting at the lawmen in defense of the outlaws. To topple the gang, Nix organized a special elite group of one hundred marshals, including Heck Thomas, Bill Tilghman, and Chris Madsen, who became known as the Three Guardsmen. Marshal Nix was staunchly defensive of his deputies, and the actions they were forced to take in order to bring the gang to justice. With Nix in support of them, the marshals began to whittle away at the gang, and by 1898 the entire Doolin Dalton gang had been wiped out with the exception of "Arkansas Tom" Jones, who was in prison.
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The fighting was so harsh that, after advancing an average of five kilometers, the offensive stopped for the day in the north. The next day saw a renewal of the Soviet attack, which was largely blocked by counterattacks by German tanks; the tired Soviet divisions could simply not hold their own against the concerted attacks from the opposition. The south, however, achieved success, much like the earlier days of the battle, although Soviet forces began to face heavier air strikes from German aircraft. The Germans, on the other hand, had spent the day fighting holding actions in both sectors, launching small counterattacks to whittle away at Soviet offensive potential, while continuously moving up reinforcements from the south, including several aircraft squadrons transferred from the Crimea.
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While the wing itself did not participate in the Vietnam War, its units were soon manned by personnel who had completed tours in Southeast Asia, with the 1st serving as a transition unit for many pilots en route to or returning from Southeast Asia. Organizational changes continued to whittle away at the wing's strength in 1966 and 1967. The wing was assigned to the 34th Air Division, First Air Force, on 1 April 1966. This organization changed again on 16 January 1967, when the 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, which had won top prize in the F-106 category at the 1965 William Tell weapons competition at Tyndall AFB, Florida, was transferred to the 328th Fighter Wing (Air Defense), Tenth Air Force, at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Missouri.
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But the appointment of party secretary László Rajk as Minister of the Interior, coupled with the presence of the Red Army in the country and strong support for the MKP within other parties, allowed the Hungarian Communists time to whittle away their political opponents. Party leader Mátyás Rákosi implemented a strategy of pressuring the non-Communist parties to gradually push out their more courageous elements as "fascists," a strategy he later called salami tactics. Within two years, the MKP had broken the power base of the Independent Smallholders Party (FKGP), the majority party in the new government, and by 1948, every party but the Social Democrats had either vanished or taken over by fellow travelers willing to do the Communists' bidding. The Social Democrats were eliminated in 1948 by a forced merger with the Communists in June 1948 which formed the Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP).
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