Slovakia, for example, trimmed its structural budget deficit from 11.4% of GDP in 2000 to 2.3% in 2004, the year it joined the club.
Morrison and Porter could have, for example, trimmed the childcare spending itself, so that they reduced the amount they needed to cut from the income of the lowest-income sole-parent families or from the income of grandparents trying to raise a second generation of children.
For example, trimmed means and variances across samples were used as the initial values for the parameters in the normal distribution of the mixture.
For example, Trimmer contends that Sunday schools teach their pupils not merely to read the Bible but how to draw the proper theological and political conclusions from it.
Economic growth of around 5% a year is too slow to provide jobs for a young population, and the economy is unlikely to do much better next year.Cleaning up the state sector, perhaps by privatising the profitable bits (brewers, for example) and trimming the loss-makers (most of the rest), is a prerequisite for returning to faster growth.
Small business owners "have begun restructuring their businesses, reducing their employees' hours, for example, or trimming their total head counts to fewer than 50 full-time workers," according to the Wall Street Journal's Sarah E. Needleman and Angus Loten.
For example, when trimming at the 90th percentile, all weights with value above the 90th percentile were set equal to the 90th percentile.
In rodent somatosensory cortex, plasticity mechanisms have commonly been investigated after altering the sensory input from a rodent's snout, for example, by trimming a subset of its whiskers.
Subsequent routine husbandry treatments, for example foot trimming and drenching, were organised to ensure that groups not in direct contact with the scrapie-affected sheep were treated before any potentially infected sheep.
