We've tried various approaches, paring it down to minimal components.

The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics.

France s full engagement will increase the pace of reform in NATO and make the alliance a tool better adapted to twenty first century crises by paring down its cumbersome bureaucracy.

So when the British came to terms with this harsh reality, they played out the lamentable end game of their management of the negotiations with small minded cheese paring and logic chopping offers, all designed primarily to safeguard narrow British interests, mainly at the expense of the new member states.