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sequester
verb
To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
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Via Reuters: Meeting for breakfast, Republican House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and his Democratic counterpart in the Senate, Patty Murray, said they would explore every avenue to reach a longer-term deal to reduce deficits and replace automatic "sequester" spending cuts.
Pyrolysis of forest residues from 200 hectares of timberland, pyrolysis of crop residues from 120 million hectares of farmland, and pyrolysis of fast-growing vegetation from another 30 million hectares of idle cropland could each sequester about ten percent of U.S. annual fossil-fuel emissions.
Lehmann's calculations suggest that transforming the crop waste from 120 million hectares of U.S. farmland alone could sequester ten percent of the nation's annual carbon emissions.
Love has served its purpose, now must be transformed by an impersonal sequester of me into the loves I will not see, or touch, or in any way remember.
Defence spending, some lawmakers and pundits argue, will continue to grow (in nominal terms) despite the sequester.
Mr Hagel's predecessor, Leon Panetta, said the sequester would "virtually devastate" national security.
In short, the sequester will be little different from previous retrenchments after wars have ended.Neither is right.
A recent attempt to save $1 billion a year by using Walmart instead of government-run commissaries to sell groceries to soldiers was stillborn when contractors protested.Even if they think the sequester cuts too deep, many defence analysts believe that substantial cuts can be made fairly safely, so long as they are well-aimed and spread out over time rather than imposed as a straight 10% annually.
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