Sentence examples for eliminating items from inspiring English sources

So he put together a team to overhaul the menu, cutting portions and eliminating items with lots of calories.

While slowly eliminating items of clothing, Ms. Martinez playfully manipulates a small red handkerchief, which disappears and reappears several times, ultimately taking a final bow when she's apparently got nowhere conceivable — or at least mentionable — to hide it.

He was still revising as the first lunch service began, eliminating items already printed on the menu: an oxtail that was too fancy ("It's too arty — I just can't identify what I'm eating"), an eggplant that was too tough ("Will someone give me a pneumatic drill so I can get through the fucker?"), a phallic pigeon leg ("No woman is going to put that bone in her mouth — that's disgusting").

The iPhone X is following a quintessential Apple trend of eliminating items Apple feels are no longer necessary.

Similar to the process of eliminating items from a scale to increase inter-item reliability as evidenced by a Cronbach's α, Guttman scale items were systematically tested in order to achieve adequate levels of reproducibility and scalability.

With conscious spending, there are no guidelines that dictate what should or should not be spent on a specific expense category; the only right answer is that you are spending money on things that are meaningful to you and cutting back or eliminating items that have no significance in your life.

Eliminating item 12 and 21 raised Cronbach's α from.87 to.88.

For example, eliminating "short of breath" or at a minimum, separating it from "headache" in item 5 and eliminating item 10 (snoring) may improve the measure's relevance and potentially its psychometric performance within the FM patient population.

Eliminating item 6 (having a hobby) resulted in a better fit of the model; however, the physical component was no longer represented in the remaining items (8, 9 and 10) and led to a Cronbach's alpha below 0.70.

The provision giving the department the power to eliminate items or portions thereof was standard in its contracts.

And I did not want any foods that are not essentially American, which eliminated items like fettuccine Alfredo, quesadillas con carne, and vegetables.