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Now when we look at being able to slash our product use, slash our transportation use, slash our building energy use, all of that is great, but it still leaves something behind.

Greece must slash its deficit by some 4 of GDP.

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Rudder The rudder is typically mounted on the trailing edge of the vertical stabilizer, part of the empennage.

Bring them back to me so he began to slash ( their ) legs and necks .

Bring them back to me so he began to slash ( their ) legs and necks .

Trailing her in opinion polls, the other contenders cite her lack of credibility on economic policy and international relations.

Even Britain under the Tory David Cameron has joined the rush to slash defense spending.

Spiders use silk for many purposes, including the trailing safety dragline, wrapping eggs for reproduction, protective retreats and catching prey.

After tough negotiations, the government and its creditors would probably eventually slash Greece s debt in half.

To note that it may not have been slash and burn so much as slash and char, which with the addition of organic matter produces terra preta, one of the richest soils on Earth and the only one that regenerates itself.

Coca farmers and producers slash and burn forests, polluting streams with toxic chemicals and damaging fragile ecosystems.

The thrower stands 60 degrees away from the target, and takes one step forward from the trailing foot, letting the sling swing forward.

That will soon be the case again, even though in terms of per capita wealth China ranks roughly 100th in the world, trailing Albania.

Their leaders in Congress are already declaring that they will slash public spending in order to begin reducing the deficit.

That is what is happening in today s effort, in country after country, to slash spending and bring down budget deficits.

A team of economists led by David Montgomery estimates that spending 359 million could realistically slash 19 of black carbon emissions.

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It was surprisingly a televised event as the news of the arrest was leaked and the media people were trailing the security forces convoy rolling to her house.

This reminds Castro of the economic dislocations that led the Soviet Union to slash its aid to Cuba in the years before it collapsed.

Kleist's scenes of the desert are harsh and lonely. A dozen people squeeze into a little car, which speeds through the endless desert trailing a long cloud of dust.

Yet at the same time, the corporate sector lobbies aggressively to gut environmental regulations, slash corporate tax rates, and avoid their own responsibility for ecological destruction.

Secondary forestation is common in areas where forests have been lost by the slash and burn method, a component of some shifting cultivation systems of agriculture.

Without revealing which programs he would reduce, Romney promises to slash federal spending by more than 500 billion in 2016, capping it at 20 of GDP thereafter.

This broad set of spiraling difficulties has led credit rating agencies to slash Egypt s rating. It is also discouraging foreign direct investment, as is the discrediting of Egypt s police forces.

When it was unveiled in 2000, the Colombia Plan had a double rationale to slash narcotics production and exports while strengthening Colombia s counterinsurgency campaign against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels.

LONDON With Labour trailing the Conservatives slightly in opinion polls, the British election on May 6 could well produce a hung parliament, in which neither major party obtains a majority and the Liberal Democrats hold the balance of power.

They want to slash the budget not by ending the useless war in Afghanistan, and by eliminating unnecessary weapons systems, but by cutting education, health, and other benefits for the poor and working class.

With the US and the European Union unwilling to slash their farm subsidies, Uganda s rice experiment deserves wider attention, if only because it shows that Africans aren t merely passive victims of international economic forces.

Of course, governments can slash their expenditure and increase taxes to balance their budgets, or at least to embark on a path leading in that direction, as the hotly debated example of Greece has shown.

Germany and France as de facto leaders of the European Union are haggling over a belated support package, but they have made it abundantly clear that Greece must slash public sector wages and other spending.

Small farmers need options other than slash and burn farming to boost their meager incomes. There is a clear need for an integrated land management approach involving conservation, rehabilitation, investment in sustainable livelihoods, and institutional reforms.

Most of the new jobs over the next few decades will be created in cities, offering livelihoods to hundreds of millions of young people and, as China and Brazil have demonstrated, helping to slash extreme poverty.

Initiatives for the rehabilitation of degraded land in the context of reforestation, agricultural productivity, integrated farming and animal husbandry, rain water catchments, alternative renewable energies or the banning of slash and burn practices are reported to show positive results.

GPE is making a real difference. But I remain haunted by the knowledge that, if we are to move beyond business as usual and slash those hundred year timelines to meet the 15 year time horizon of the SDGs, we must do much more.

We had slash and burn agriculture people cannot afford the fertilizer, so they burn the trees and have the minerals available there the fires become more frequent, and after a while you're stuck with an area of land where there is no fertility left.