Sentence examples for scythe from inspiring English sources

The planned single currency, the euro, should scythe through Europe's tangle of D-mark, French franc and lira interest-rate futures contracts.

They are born near the equator and scythe southward.

When they go bad they scythe away wealth and strangle economies.

On March 6th he hinted that he would scythe labour laws in the way Mr Hilton had demanded since last year.The difference between Mr Hilton and the likes of Sir Jeremy and Mr Osborne lies in style rather than vision.

They also cheered through a radical budget plan drawn up by Paul Ryan of Wisconsin that would scythe down entitlements and, in particular, will make the well-loved Medicare plan for the elderly much less generous.

And though some of the Republicans debating this week in Las Vegas would scythe away the regulations that make it so hard to do useful and profitable things, such as drilling for gas and oil, many citizens treasure their environment and want to preserve it.

They are born near the equator and then scythe southwards through the islands.

The trouble is that the very circumstances that would cut Labour's majority a healthy swing to the Tories would also scythe down the Lib Dems in Parliament, and so reduce their value as partners.

The Labour Party is full of people who will say in private that Mr Mandelson has treated them less honourably, that in his relentless rise he has been all too willing to scythe away former friends and colleagues who become dispensable.

These, however, are mere sops compared to the main task the Republicans have in mind, which is to stop what Mr Boehner calls the Democrats' "job-destroying spending spree" and to scythe down the size and reach of government.On the very day of Mr Obama's speech, the House Republicans passed a resolution to cut the budget for the coming fiscal year back to 2008 levels.

Philip Lawson, a Suffolk farmer now in his late eighties, returned to the place where, as a young flight lieutenant on a secret mission, he had spied out a potential airstrip and encouraged the local people to scythe the fields and remove the rocks.