whittle down造句

They are trying to whittle down our salaries.

Mr Selten's work let economists whittle down the number of possible Nash equilibria.

One of the central intellectual projects in the Constitution of Liberty is the Humean one to use reason to whittle down the claims of reason.

Furthermore, with the equity markets still in turmoil, Freescale may not be able in the near future to whittle down its debts by selling shares to the public.

Nowak has been busy working on how to whittle down the emergence of life into the simplest possible chemical system that he can describe mathematically.