Reducing the deficit by cutting funds for education, infrastructure, and research and development is akin to trying to lose weight by cutting off three fingers.

So the question is Can we shrink fat by cutting off its blood supply?

China could crush North Korea in a day just by cutting off food and fuel supplies.

In other words, the EU should develop a policy under which cutting off supplies to one member country is equivalent to cutting off supplies to all.

One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence.

You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

All this contributes to accelerating off flows, as the retaining of waters is being reduced through cutting off inundations by intentional regulating of small water basins.

Dr. Folkman had a theory that the progression of tumors could be arrested by cutting off their source of nourishment.

Cutting off aid could have calamitous humanitarian consequences for the nation s 80 million people.

The first attack was on the Rushmiyya Bridge area cutting the Arab areas off.

It started at midnight but they have been cutting it off it earlier every day.

Russia began 2006 by cutting off natural gas exports to Ukraine after its government refused to pay a fourfold increase in the subsidized price.

In Vila Madalena they have been cutting it off every night for the past two months

This week, the US Congress will discuss cutting off aid to the West Bank based Palestinian Authority.

Crisis management measures undertaken in the Western world are practically cutting our countries off from the EU market.

As for the man or woman who is guilty of theft , recompense them by cutting off their hands for their crimes . That is the punishment from Allah .

Sami humiliated Layla by cutting her hair.

For several years, some members of the US Senate have maintained a punitive policy towards Indonesia by cutting off military assistance and curtailing Indonesian military training in the US.

Today, Har Homa, built on Jabal Abu Ghnaim with the aim of cutting off Bethlehem from Jerusalem, is home to 19,000 settlers.

Cutting methane is actually cheaper than cutting carbon.

The intention was to connect the settlement with West Jerusalem, thereby encircling occupied East Jerusalem and cutting it off from its natural Palestinian surroundings.

During the latter part of 1897, Wilde and Douglas lived together near Naples for a few months until they were separated by their respective families under the threat of a cutting off of funds.

So, if angiogenesis is a tipping point between a harmless cancer and a harmful one, then one major part of the angiogenesis revolution is a new approach to treating cancer by cutting off the blood supply.

Officials recognize that cutting off EU support and compelling the ECB to stop providing credit to the Bank of Greece would be Europe s Lehman Brothers moment.

President Wilson was on the verge of cutting off the loans in late 1916, but allowed a great increase in US government lending to the Allies.

(c) Attempts to blockade Kathmandu and other urban areas with a view to cutting off supplies of food and other essential supplies to the civilian population

(c) Attempts to blockade Kathmandu and other urban areas with a view to cutting off supplies of food and other essential supplies to the civilian population

(i) Cross cutting issues identified by the Commission at its eleventh session

The political right calls for more rapid deficit reduction by cutting spending.

In 1595, the Spanish, frustrated by the twenty year rebellion of their Dutch subjects, closed their home ports to rebel shipping from the Netherlands, cutting them off from the critical salt supplies necessary for their herring industry.

He attempted suicide twice once by cutting his veins and recently by trying to hang himself.

About six years ago, I bought one of these CNC mills, to just replace, kind of, young people cutting their fingers off all the time building models.

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave I am deprived of the residue of my years.

Faced with a vicious combination of collapsing housing prices and imploding credit markets, the Fed has been aggressively cutting interest rates to try to stave off a recession.

ROD Cutting hair.

Cross cutting issues

In particular, they risk cutting a country off from the main flows of credit, investment, and commerce that is, all of the activities that generate economic opportunity and prosperity.

Those who want the banks cut down to size, even if it is a case of cutting off one s nose to spite one s face, are not happy with Vickers.

There is an alarming pattern of press manipulation throughout the region, from Honduran authorities cutting off a national radio station s telephone service to Argentine officials shuttering a printing press.

In this way Ecuador gave up the claims it had to the Amazonian territories between the Caquetá River and Napo River to Colombia, thus cutting itself off from Brazil.

In 642, Umar launched multi prong expeditions into Persia, first capturing Isfahan province thus cutting off the northern province of Azerbaijan and southern province of Fars from main empire.

A good example is the European Union s newly instituted policy of cutting CO2 emissions by 20 by 2020.

The grass needs cutting.

The grass needs cutting.