Oh, you mean the pruning.

I've been pruning your trees for the last three years.

You can think of it a bit like pruning a rosebush.

My shame as a spur,

They were in the flower bed together and he was pruning her begonias.

In turn, remittances can spur this development.

Then they got a couple of pruning hooks and fished me out ever so gently.

My shame as a spur, I fled the abyss.

Fixing the housing market could also help spur consumption .

Programme for promotion of the use of plant stubble and pruning wastes for burning and energy generation.

International partnerships have helped to spur the reduction of measles.

In the long run, it will spur growth and prosperity.

(Applause.) We can also spur energy innovation with new incentives.

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'

And the recently conducted feasibility study might spur long awaited progress.

The pacifist Leo Tolstoy, in his novel War and Peace , regarded this pruning and tending of war as cynical.

Then what will you do with this spur of yours, my cockerel?

Our own generation urgently needs to spur another era of great social change.

Historically, failure to protect against inflation or deflation has helped spur calamitous outcomes.

This would spur trade wars as countries tried to find more demand abroad.

The Westgate attack should spur Kenya s leaders to re think their approach toward Somalia.

It did spur me to get better at finding common ground across the regions.

What need we any spur but our own cause to prick us to redress?

In countries like Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, environmental protest has helped spur political reform.

They might also spur developing countries to do what it takes to join that market.

Much theoretical and empirical research demonstrates that opening trade can spur a country s GDP growth.

Titinius is enclosed at round about with horsemen that make to him on the spur.

Curiously, this finding did not spur much interest, and no similar studies were reported until 2002.

Several regional integration initiatives include efforts to spur the creation of regional banks and settlement schemes.

The world awaits a new deal to spur development and create jobs on a global scale.

All of this will invariably spur development and integration of national financial systems and intra regional trade.

Yes, Japan will rebuild, which will undoubtedly spur some type of recovery in its disaster battered economy.

As these retail products start to take shape, they will spur increased activity in the derivative markets.

Higher interest rates can spur consumption if their impact on income outweighs the increased incentive to save.

Stronger financial markets can move savings to where they can do the most to spur economic growth.

India is concerned that these protests could spur violence which could spill over into its own territory.

In turn, this can spur sustainable non farm employment growth in services, agro processing, and small scale manufacturing.

To spur investment, new measures have been undertaken to allow foreign banks to enter the Iranian financial system.

By contrast, a genuinely repressive iron hand would be far likelier to spur a more potent democratic resistance.

A reduction in budget deficits in industrialized countries could help lower international interest rates and spur economic growth.

And to spur on more success stories like the Allen Brothers, we've begun to reinvent our energy policy.

Instead, it is becoming apparent that, after a period of epic profits and growth, the financial industry now needs to undergo a period of consolidation and pruning.

Clinton has created a raft of new positions at the State Department to spur outreach to different social segments.

This current session and the forthcoming summit in September are events that should spur on the process of development.

But the Organization will need a new impetus to spur international action worthy of the expectations of our peoples.