President Obama often claims he wants to cut the budget smartly, using a "scalpel" not a meat axe, machete, cleaver or chainsaw, to list a few of his favorite metaphors.
"I'm not coming here with a big axe to swing and cut everything out, " he said.
The court heard he went into the premises wearing a balaclava, overalls and gloves and carrying a 35cm axe.
"I first found a small axe head, and, after some more investigation, founds ingots, pieces of swords and chisels, " he said.
Of course, he has a major axe to grind in this conversation and encourages people to continue to buy bonds whenever he can.
This week, despite the prospect of strong corporate earnings, the indexes remain trapped in a trading range, partially due to investor concerns that pending government actions are going to take a blunt axe to global economic growth.
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Because it was always a policy and initiative list, there were many government officials involved, each with a policy axe to grind, weighing in, and the speechwriter was caught in the middle trying to make the words cover everything and still transmit a good speech.
John Bush, vice-president of Gillette's research and development, likens the reduced drag to cutting down a tree with an axe rather than a wedge.
The Alliance Party's Anna Lo said direct payments were a "lifeline" for many social landlords and she did not want to axe a system which had worked well in Northern Ireland for many years.
We decided to exclude the traditional list of "simple machines, " which includes the lever, pulley, wheel and wedge, since most other tools employ some form of simple machine--a hammer is basically a lever, and an axe is essentially a wedge.
The role of a virile, axe-wielding, fur-bearing, cranium-smashing barbarian suited Schwarzenegger to a tee.
With a sharp chiseled bow softened by elegant curves the Sea Axe is a genuine head turner.
Besides being able to check your Facebook account, email your girlfriend, call your Mom on the holidays, or play a Java version of Golden Axe, you can take a college class via your mobile phone.
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Its publisher Trinity Mirror will axe a total of 92 jobs, but create 52 across Wales and England.
The European Commission in Brussels recently proposed taking a meat-axe to the problem.
Archaeologists found the remains of a high-ranking warrior, along with a sword, axe and other items at Ardnamurchan in the Highlands.
Mr Baldock says his favourite item was a Bronze Age axe head.
Critics of the budget argue that it focuses on raising revenues, mainly through higher taxes, and does not take a heavy enough axe to state spending.
This is about the time I would expect to have my luck run out, to have some Foot Knight charge up behind me with a pole-axe and thwack me to death.
Last week it was announced 16 jobs are to go at Cardiff-based Media Wales newspaper group as Trinity Mirror said it will axe a total of 92 jobs, but create 52 across Wales and England.
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"Technology is clearly having a big impact on the way we try and build our brands at Unilever, particularly on a brand like Axe, which is targeted at 12- to 24-year-old guys who are the most media-savvy and technologically savvy generation ever, " he said.
Samantha Rigg-David, the sister of Sean Rigg, a 40-year-old man who died in police custody in 2008 in Brixton, and Alastair Morgan, whose brother Daniel - a private detective - was found with an axe in his head in a south London pub's car park in 1987, took part in the demonstration.
He grips his bat like a lumberjack grasps his axe and looks dreadfully nervous.
To his mind, Lerach was advocating using an axe when a scalpel would do better.
Up to 70 Flintshire jobs could face the axe at a company which provides IT support services for Scottish Power.
First-time advertiser Axe shows a woman in the ocean getting rescued by a sexy lifeguard, but going for an astronaut instead.
Among the latest rewards: a gig as the AXE Bodyspray pitchman.
The Ardnamurchan Viking was found buried with an axe, a sword with a decorated hilt, a spear, a shield boss and a bronze ring pin.
He displayed the only things he still owns: an axe, a wire for trapping wild animals, a tattered green gym bag, a cooking pot, and a wicker basket.
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