Sentence examples for pruning down from inspiring English sources

You are thoughtful about when you should be generating many ideas versus pruning down ideas.

Our goal in pruning down the timetree was to preserve as much of the backbone of the timetree as would still permit us to assign species richness unambiguously to tip lineages.

Moshe Szyf, a pharmacologist at McGill University who was one of the first to relate DNA methylation patterns to behavior, sees epigenetic processes as "the adaptive mechanism of the genome"—an essential mechanism for pruning down the wide range of all possible behaviors permitted by genes, selecting those that fit an individual's environment.

Therefore, an important part of any planning of the wedding reception involves pruning down your reception list; this will also bring about an estimation of the costs per head, according to the size of the room and your requirements too.

They usually start to leaf out when the forsythia blooms, and this is the proper time for pruning, down to live wood and emerging buds.

Being a mid- to late-summer flowering variety, it can be pruned down to about 60cm (2ft) each spring.

Roses that are exposed have either been pruned down to their sturdiest canes or tied up for support.

Eliot himself revises his opinion of Thomas Hardy (in a letter to Roy Morrell, a fellow director of Faber and Faber), though of Hardy's poetry he says he should have "pruned down his collection to the best".

How can executives possibly prune down their 60 minutes of carefully constructed diagrams and stratagems, into 20 minutes, much less six?

Under Minerva Marquis' careful direction, the play is substantially pruned down, but not to ill effect.

Within the first one 100 days itself, President [Maithripala] Sirisena pruned down many of his executive powers as much as he could without going through a referendum as the Supreme Court requested.