| The apparently mild exterior and the guileless blue eyes mask a single-minded determination to carve out a successful career. |
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| Our country has the pride of having master craftsmen who carve out exquisite products with their deft hands. |
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| If it should happen you'd aught to do with that, I just might take it into my head to carve out your liver and fry it in front of you. |
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| Negotiations will be intense, but the president could carve out a victory that will win the support of autoworkers and farmers. |
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| The first thing you have to do is carve out steel dies for the obverse and the reverse of the coin. |
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| Meanwhile he is paying court to Isabelle over the weekend, hoping to carve out his own share of her family's fortune. |
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| Greedy and acquisitive, he set his sights on this land in order to carve out a feudal domain for himself. |
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| We're trying to take a scalpel and carve out this very small percentage of the people that are gaming the system. |
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| That is to say, we want to carve out a place for conversation, dialogue, dialectic, and debate. |
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| He never assembled the rigs when a gusher was struck or helped carve out the rail tracks and roads that brought in more labour. |
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| Depending on the atomic species, ion beams can be used to dope semiconductors even as they carve out circuit patterns. |
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| When fully grown up, the offspring of birds and animals abandon their parents, and carve out a world of their own. |
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| Each of the major billing vendors has tried to carve out a niche within the cable industry. |
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| Vermont researcher Bernd Heinrich once watched a wild raven trying to carve out a piece of the action from a huge slab of suet. |
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| Yet I was determined to settle down and carve out my destiny in my homeland. |
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| Living in the shadow of Newgate Prison, Sweeney Todd tries to carve out a quiet and simple life as a barber. |
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| It furnishes the tools with which children and young people carve out their lives, and is a lifelong source of comfort, renewal and strength. |
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| They were able to establish themselves on the pieces of land parceled out by the government, helping them carve out a secure future. |
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| Every single scholar who has written on India finds place in this book, even as the two authors carve out a space between rival and polemic writings. |
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| In an almost two-toned, highly contrasted environment, silhouettes cleave the darkness and carve out a life impulse with all their energy. |
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| But I still managed to carve out a highly respectable professional career for myself. |
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| To emphasise the lack of incident, City didn't carve out an effort on goal until more than 30 minutes had passed but at least when they did it brought rich reward. |
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| As you know, our goal is for Quebec to become a sovereign country and carve out a place for itself on the international scene. |
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| They were sometimes troublesome youths who had been sent over to carve out a career in Canada. |
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| Unleash your potential and carve out your place in the world of new media and telecommunications. |
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| Municipalities will have to carve out the required operating funds to run the expanded facilities. |
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| They would either have no connectivity or limited connectivity if they could carve out funds to support a small technology budget. |
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| As a precedent, Putin cited kosovo, which the West helped carve out of Serbia in 1999 against Russian objections. |
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| Instead, paramilitary gangs carve out fiefdoms to exploit drug-dealing and protection rackets, while young people look up to these criminals as role models. |
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| It pauses the careening jumble of events to carve out moments of stillness. |
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| In fact, when he wasn't sending down his medium-pacers for Middlesex in the Eighties, Hughes was also attempting to carve out a sideline as a journalist. |
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| Yet even as their departments became increasingly bureaucratized, they were able to carve out a new identity based on occupational specialization. |
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| In the Cuban view, freedom is the participation in power by the people rather than people trying to carve out limits on the exercise of power by oligarchs. |
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| In order to carve out a place in the highly competitive video surveillance industry, research companies and centres could take the intelligent turn by developing products in the video analytics niche. |
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| With respect to development funding, MOST will seek to carve out an added value with respect to the international debate on development and the role of United Nations agencies. |
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| Prices may get a little boost as we attempt to carve out a bottom over an extended period of time, but I do not expect any sustained rallies at this time. |
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| Or did a unique combination of cultural factors, including religious beliefs, educational practices and new economic theories, give the Scots a leading edge that allowed them to carve out their place in a new city? |
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| It will call for a redoubling of efforts to improve our market position in an environment of predatory competition and to carve out new sales opportunities for our products. |
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| In the longer term, this picture is going to change and Kudelski aims to carve out a place for itself with partners in order to benefit from the market evolution. |
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| In 1018, Roger de Tosny travelled to the Iberian Peninsula to carve out a state for himself from Moorish lands, but failed. |
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| After William of Normandy secured England, he left the Welsh to his Norman barons to carve out lordships for themselves. |
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| Over the years, we have been successful in meeting many challenges at SSQ, allowing us to develop our expertise and to carve out an enviable place in Canada's financial services sector. |
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| To carve out ample seating accommodations in the last row, GM raised the rear-most portion of the roof higher than the forward section, so that aft passengers have a good forward view. |
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| We undertook a very intentional process for close to three years to carve out the time and space to make what is essentially a paradigm shift in how we work. |
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| We will carve out our future with our strength of character. |
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| Our objective is to create awareness of the continent's children, the groups that are prospering and those that are struggling to carve out a place in the world. |
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| The existence of other issues in the case does not carve out and disqualify the operative subsisting facts for purposes of the disproportionately analysis. |
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| Our foothold in the American market is not a given. It is due, above all, to our hard work and to the determination of the Chilean government to carve out a share of the international market with quality products. |
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| Murat's gift for combining the musicality of language with the languorous melancholy of the blues has helped him carve out a unique place on the French music scene. |
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| Their number is small but they're smart as they carve out a trail through streams and sage brush to track their prey. |
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| Any addition or carve out by Member States should add a high level of credibility to the annual accounts of companies, and be conducive to the public good. |
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| It should also be said that several French businesses and companies, including Alcatel and Pechiney, have managed to carve out a strong hold in the telecommunications and mining sectors. |
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| The Métis and Inuit communities as well as First Nation communities are young communities that possess great potential and are ready to carve out a place for themselves in society. |
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| Loveliness, like namelessness, is part of the deal, and, while nobody would be so cruel as to call her thin, I like to think that, should the modelling jobs ever dwindle, she could carve out a second career as a spring onion. |
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| Bolton never looked like scoring but Newcastle also failed to carve out many goalscoring opportunities. |
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| Ethnic beverages like Mexican aguas frescas and horchata will carve out a wider niche on the menu. |
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| Its torrent of meltwater gushed through the Finchley Gap and south towards the new course of the Thames, and proceeded to carve out the Brent Valley in the process. |
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| His actions are not driven primarily by a determination to annex the Donbas region, carve out a land corridor to Crimea, or create a frozen conflict. |
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| Eastern Bosnia was a wartime stronghold of the Bosnian Serb army and ethnic Serb paramilitaries, fighting Bosniaks and Croats to carve out an exclusively Serb statelet. |
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| And when Wolves had the ball they gifted it back to the opposition so fecklessly that the Canaries continued to carve out chance after chance and could have scored eight. |
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| The dominant mode of functioning was volunteeristic and supportive of current practice, but activists could carve out space for their agendas within the limits of the forum. |
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