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Usage examples of cuts.

There was very little blood, hut there were at least a dozen cuts and one looked deep.

We still were fighting furiously as we talked in broken sentences, punctured with vicious cuts and thrusts at our swarming enemy.

Before he could release it I had run him through, and then, falling back upon the tactics that have saved me a hundred times in tight pinches, I rushed the two remaining warriors, forcing them back with a perfect torrent of cuts and thrusts, weaving my sword in and out about their guards until I had the fear of death upon them.

To begin, Leo, with his golden curls turned a snowy white, his clothes nearly rent from his body, his worn face and his hands a mass of bruises, cuts, and blood-encrusted filth, was a sufficiently alarming spectacle, as he painfully dragged himself along the ground, and I have no doubt that I was little better to look on.

I carried, to my feet, to the tattered places in my coat, and the cuts and scratches I had received from the thorns.

The more advanced leaves are seen to be seven-cut, each lobe divided and sub-divided by cuts less deep, the whole leaf being richly toothed and veined.

There was a ready consensus: the group started advocating significant tax cuts in its first public pronouncements.

But in a three-hour confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Finance Committee, he did not spell out the benefits of tax cuts in any detail.

Only if the probability was very low that prospective tax cuts or new outlay initiatives would send the on-budget accounts into deficit, would unconditional initiatives appear prudent.

February, positing ways to make the tax cut more stimulative by accelerating the rate cuts or altering tax-withholding tables retroactively to January 1 in 2001.

If Congress wants to accelerate the tax cuts as a way to speed stimulus to the economy, that will be fine.

On March 6, the GOP House leadership scaled back its plan for large corporate tax cuts in order to win over Senate Democrats.

Iraq policy, and the other was the idea that tax cuts were always good, the deeper the better.

Dysfunctions of the political system, where it is often more effective to wield illusion than reality, would make attempts to repeal the cuts a suicide mission.

It was a matter of degree, of where you fell on the spectrum between the pure concept, on one end, and hard, complex data about how tax cuts actually affect the economy, on the other.