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Discover Ludwig"hew down" is a correct and usable term in written English
It is used to describe the act of cutting something down with an axe or similar tool. For example: "He had to hew down the tree in order to make way for the new path."
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This is to say that the challenge in question is like a rusty old scythe, hewing down human corn in an imprecise sweep of blunt-edged violence.
In Macbeth, at the wood of Birnam, Malcolm said, "Let every soldier hew him down a bough / And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow / The numbers of our host and make discovery /Err in report of us".
Then, a few lines down, hewing to the form's interior logic, the sonnet turns: "But it was true: at the window, / every afternoon, toward the horizon / a little more light before the darkness fell".
Rather than hewing to trickle-down theory, Hoyer said he and other Democrats are developing an economic agenda that will focus on encouraging domestic manufacturing and discouraging the outsourcing of jobs to other countries.
Some (like most mainstream Christian churches) hew to the teaching laid down in 451 that Christ had both a divine nature and a human one but was a single person.
And, at regulatory institutions such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Communications Commission, and the National Labor Relations Board, Trump has appointed, or is in the process of appointing, officials who hew to the lines laid down by conservative think tanks and their corporate donors.
The old HEW seal still glares down from a wall behind his head.
"I think there was a genuine expectation that the cap would be reduced to hew to the goal of driving down greenhouse-gas emissions," he said.
CCTV played down that exercise, hewing to the official line that Taiwan is a renegade province of China.
Websites will have to hew to the official message of the Communist Party, or expect to see their publication "cleaned up" or shut down, according to the official statement in Chinese.
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