Sentence examples for is trim back from inspiring English sources

Virtually all that officials have been able to do so far is trim back the tamarisk shrubs that have taken over newly dry areas, offering shade to coyotes and lizards that quickly replaced the bass.

The government is trimming back on contracts awarded to private firms.

In a bid to control costs and improve revenue, the company is trimming back some unprofitable stores and buying out franchisees, noted Bill Moore, a partner at Forum Capital Markets in Old Greenwich, Conn.

In treating tree-trunk wounds in which large areas of bark are torn away, the bark around the wound is trimmed back to sound tissue and, at the top and bottom of the injury, trimmed to form a pointed ellipse of the wound area.

The retailer has been beefing up its online store at the same time as it is trimming back brick-and-mortar, adding entirely new categories of goods to its web-based selection, including sporting goods, outdoor items and various lotions, most of which are available online only, so it's no surprise to see them shed costly real estate.

AOL is trimming back its employee retirement benefits, a move the media company's chief executive said Thursday was made necessary by new costs incurred by President Barack Obama's health care reform law.

If there are base mismatches or indels in the initial alignment of this overlap region to either reference location, then each reference alignment is trimmed back until it consists of only perfect matches to the reference genome in the overlap region.

Once satisfied that you have found all the wounds and the fur is trimmed back, you are ready to clean the injuries.

Initially, all she'd done was trim back a few of the more overgrown branches.

In 2011, early voting was trimmed back.

The Thanksgiving dinner that Mr. Sartori hosts was trimmed back.