They look natural, not overly manicured and trimmed.
That requires painful changes to make labour markets more flexible, to trim overly generous welfare states and to inject new competition into product markets, especially for services, which account for two-thirds of EU-wide GDP.
"The government's proposals would not only trim overly generous super tax breaks enjoyed by the top 20% of income earners – people wealthy enough to be comfortable in retirement and unlikely to qualify for the age pension – they would save around $800m a year," the paper says.
An overly ornate door trim, for example, will not fit in as well in a country chic home, although it will complement a Victorian.
Use a Whipper Snipper (electric nylon string trimmer) on overly large weeds.
Jain, by contrast, oversees Berkshire's gigantic insurance outfit, where he's shown deft underwriting skill and the discipline to trim exposures to overly competitive markets like catastrophic insurance and reinsurance when pricing is unfavorable.
Still feeling its way, right now this young restaurant has a long, overly ambitious menu that could be trimmed.
The only real polishing we needed to do before publication was to trim down a few overly long descriptions".
Some tax expenditures, like the favorable tax treatment of employer-provided health insurance, may have worrisome effects (by encouraging overly generous plans) and so should be trimmed.
In Haydn's Symphony No. 60 ("Il Distratto," or "The Absent-Minded Man"), the curtain raiser, the orchestra sounded trim and lithe if not overly bothered by current notions of period style.
