Sentence examples for cutting sign from inspiring English sources

Tracking is called cutting sign: "cutting" is looking and "sign" is evidence.

As a result, the military is cutting signing bonuses and making it tougher to enlist.

Each rider spends hours alone each day on horseback cutting for sign, or checking for animal tracks.

Citi is still, however, cutting jobs a sign that the recovery in wholesale banking is patchier than on the retail side.

And despite all the new technology, he said, agents still rely on old-fashioned techniques to locate and flush out migrants: searching for footprints along the dusty roads and other traces that he and other trackers call "cutting for sign". The radio buzzed again: A group of nine Central American migrants, including several women and children, had turned themselves in.

It was dark, the kitchen was tiny, and the rooms were often filled with fumes when workers were cutting plastic signs below.

In the days before trackers used high-tech methods, Taylor could discover small signs others missed, a skill called "sign cutting".

Americans are beginning to charge more on credit cards after two years of cutting back, a sign of more confidence in the economy.

Now, the underbrush along the river is seeded with hidden sensors and the sandy paths threading the woods are routinely swept clean to record footprints that agents can follow using old-fashioned Indian tracking skills called sign cutting.

Why doesn't the Group of 100 just corner the Super Committee in the hallway and whale on them until they agree to "GO BIG?" For the same reason that no one on the Group of 100 doesn't just write up a budget cutting bill and sign their own damn name to it -- they are wusses.

A folded greeting card can be reused by cutting off the signed half; prudent cooks turn everything lurking at the back of the fridge into stock; anecdotes get reused by speaker after speaker.