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Unfortunately, that means suppressing fire or cutting down all the pretty uninfected trees can cause mistletoe outbreaks.

Participating in this tribunal rewards players while cutting down on negativity.

He writes as if speaking a television documentary, cutting down any detail that might slow a furious page-turning pace.

Beyond cutting down on abortion, how could free birth control have a profound effect on society?

Other nations such as Japan and Turkey are cutting down on their buying of Iranian crude.

But the rivers, by cutting down and tilling up, have long since obliterated these water areas.

I have sent him a pretty sharp answer in favour of cutting down the memorial and giving more to the widow and children.

He told me yesterday they had more money than they could lend and that the banks were cutting down their dividends.

I learned to swing an axe by cutting down saplings, and ran "amuck" among them just as my elders did among the larger trees.

A blast of canister swept through, cutting down shrubs, splattering the mud, and shrieking viciously.