We were inundated with responses, and judges had a tough decision whittling down the entries to a short-list of five. |
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That chiseling sound you hear in the world next door is the slow whittling away of the last vestiges of the logocentric tradition. |
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Excitedly, Vivienne raised her camera to capture the woman on film, then snapped some shots of an old man whittling a piece of wood. |
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A willowy soldier leaned against a tree near where he stood, whittling a piece of wood. |
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Australia names its team to play Ireland on Wednesday with the task of whittling down a side which ran in a record 22 tries on Saturday. |
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Sometimes a long period of whittling away at the front-runner can lead to boredom and apathy. |
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Her third work, a video performance, depicts him performing as an old man, whittling an amorphous shape. |
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The Americans of the volunteers joked about how whittling wood was an American habit. |
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He had given the horses some grain, and now he was whittling a figure out of a piece of wood. |
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The show features local artists and carvers and has some fun contests like duck and goose calling, decoy rigs, whittling, and model sneakboxes. |
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As I sat in my alfresco office whittling away at a divining rod, a beaten up old truck screeched to a halt. |
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He leaned against the muddy wall of the trench furiously whittling a knotted tree branch. |
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Other blade tools, such as denticulates and spokeshaves, have multiple, deep, retouched notches and probably functioned as shredders or, possibly, as whittling implements. |
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It turns out it's whittling wooden figurines for schoolchildren. |
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What are we losing right now by whittling down Canadian drama on prime time? |
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The group, which included town councillors and main figures in the development process, debated a number of options before whittling them down to three main contenders. |
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Not about that fact that whittling was involved, nor perhaps on the skill and artistry of my fellow whittlers, but the fact that I could ever hope to produce anything. |
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Sunday was a time for washing clothes, mending socks, whittling wood or continuing a story from the night before. |
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We use the smaller spokeshave to soften the sharp edges, then very carefully round off the ends with our whittling knife. |
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A halt should be brought to the gradual whittling away of human rights internationally. |
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By 2002, the Court seemed finally to stop whittling away at the constitutional authority of the federal government to regulate states. |
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In my experience as an artist, it's about the proliferation of ideas and then whittling down to find the right one. |
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The homogenizing forces of globalization are whittling away some of the world's most effective cultural strategies for protecting biodiversity. |
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Any hobby or craft that you readily pick up and put down such as whittling, needlework or single-handed card games. |
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Ranging in age from 71 to 92, they all have a contagious passion: music, sculpture, miniatures, whittling, etc. |
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The South African State has resisted to being pressurized into a situation of radically whittling down the capacity of the administration. |
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A brisk-paced but enjoyable class which will help improve your posture, muscle tone and flexibility as well as whittling your waistline. |
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The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of wood I was absently whittling down to a toothpick. |
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He has entered the realm of one-off shows after a period of gradually whittling down the length of his runs to a splatter of nights here and there. |
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This period is a crucial one for a new president to start picking his cabinet, reaching out to his beaten opponents, brushing up on his foreign policy and whittling down his legislative agenda to a few key items. |
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And at an Iraqi site, Loy says, he detected 180,000-year-old blood spilled by a man whittling wood. |
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First published in 1930, The Art of Whittling is a classic introduction to the hobby of woodcrafting through whittling. |
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Man is nevertheless tempted to continue whittling away these areas, building harbours and marinas, and even starting to farm them at a time when the Union has introduced a set-aside programme. |
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In the meantime, fighters on both sides are successfully whittling down their numbers without the need for drone strikes of the type America carries out against al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan and Yemen. |
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The government has been whittling away for nine years, in an obvious way and sometimes by sleight of hand, our ability to do our jobs as members of parliament. |
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This whittling away of the public space is denounced by most of the participants who, in a way, are a force of resistance in their promotion of the arts in public spaces. |
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In response to his claim that the government is not whittling down environmental assessment standards, he said that it is all about the need to streamline. |
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There is not a single shred of evidence to link that whittling down of standards to its need and our collective need to invest in stimulus projects across the country. |
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First, my concerns about privacy and the targeting of this legislation should be addressed to ensure that we are not whittling away at legitimate freedoms and liberties of Canadians. |
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Dilution claims typically protect a famous brand against the whittling away of its unique character by third party use in situations where confusion as to source is not in issue. |
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The increase in volunteer hours exemplifies in part one of the outcomes of the mounting strain on food banks to meet the continued food demand in light of whittling resources. |
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The Holland regents continued their attempts at whittling down the stadtholder's influence by breaking up the system of secrete besognes in the States General. |
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Whittling countless hours away at the telephone, he spews forth acrimonious threats at the building's neglectful superintendent. |
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Whittling something down to its essentials gladdens my editor's heart. |
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