Sentence examples for shed branches from inspiring English sources

Dresdner will shed branches and cut its corporate lending.

No one would plant the species as an urban roadside tree today, says Joe Walsh, arboricultural officer for Manchester Leisure, because of its tendency to shed branches.

First Union, the sixth-largest banking company, is six months into an overhaul in which it has shed branches, closed its Money Store unit and taken a $3.8 billion charge.

He is also improving the soil with organic materials like goat manure and biochar, or charcoal, locally burned, from the deadwood of his mesquite trees, which shed branches in the recent eight-year drought.

DealBook » Bank of America Said to Consider Scaling Back  |  The bank has told regulators that, if its financial problems worsen, it is willing to shed branches in some parts of the country, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed people familiar with the situation.

It's never a high point for retailers, and come January there always seems to be some well-known shopkeeper shedding branches quicker than a cheap Christmas tree.

For almost a century, American railroads of all sizes have been shedding branch and feeder lines, leaving more than 100,000 miles of abandoned railways across the country.

Hollows formed at earlier ages in fast-growing trees than in slow-growing trees, which may be because hollows are formed when big branches shed, and branches are thicker on fast-growing trees in comparison to slow-growing trees of the same age.

BSI British Standards, an official setter of benchmarks, is drafting guidelines on safety inspections for trees that cast a very different light on these venerable denizens and the hidden dangers of "branch shedding" (falling branches, to the layman) and even "whole-tree failure" that they pose.

RBS, having been told to sell in October 2009, may take eight years to shed 300 branches.

Where the damage was worst, it looked as though autumnal trees had shed their branches instead of their leaves.