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The original 20 songs in his repertoire he hoped to record were whittled down with Sutherland's help to a selection that kept the tone of the songs and the subject matter into a cohesive album list. Basically the songs I most wanted to get out there were more spiritual in subject matter and were more traditional in feel, ... We tossed out the ones that felt more contemporary, even if they also dealt with spiritual issues.
The tornado watch has sort of whittled away. It did include Orlando earlier this morning and shifted southward. The threat has decreased here in Orlando.
We had several hundred ideas. In the end we whittled it down and thought the strong bull logo and the Spanish name were unique to our team.
For years I have let dentists ride roughshod over my teeth I have been sawed, hacked, chopped, whittled, bewitched, bewildered, tattooed, and signed on again but this is cuspid's last stand.
During the spring and summer, that is when you compile your list of who you are going to be looking at come fall. You talk to coaches and find out whatever you can and by the time I come back in late spring, I will have whittled a list of 50 down to maybe 30 names. By the time we get to fall, each coach probably knows about 80 percent of the guys they are recruiting that year.
Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
Jay has done a really good job. Of course, we've whittled our playbook down. Anytime you make a change at quarterback, you have to change what your offense can do. Our main problem has been getting people to sub in and out. We're so thin that when anybody is injured we lose people on offense and defense.
We (the county executive staff) came up with an extensive list of potentially interested parties and then whittled that list down to nine organizations whom we extended an invitation to participate in the process.
We considered many locations, looked at 25, whittled the list down over time to the best one available that was for sale, was large enough, had good access to roads and a number of other criteria.
The concept took all of two years. The original line-up had 50 names and 100 possible numbers. But it's difficult to get so many busy artists to find the time to record one album. Eventually, the list was whittled down to 13 artists, plus another four from Asia Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Indonesia,
The chilly December day two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's bicycle cement, stretched with muslin they'd sewn on their sister's sewing machine in their own backyard on Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, soar into the air above the dunes and the wide beach at Kitty Hawk.