Excising

And it ends with a flat-out indictment of the failure of the Labour Government in excising “the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange” from its party constitution in 1995. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I believe I have read that the editor’s defense is that the NYT was justified in excising the actual theme — the real meaning — of the letter because there was balance provided by * another* soldier’s words in the same article. ❋ Unknown (2005)

What do you mean by "excising" the cancer of capitalism? by Don Smith on Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009 at 9: 21: 49 PM ❋ Unknown (2009)

The clove's uniform creamy colour went all the way through as the inner bud hadn't yet formed, so there were no green bits in it and because it was so fresh there were no mouldy old bits that needed excising which is fairly typical of older garlic. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Others he retained, notably the policy of "excising" offshore Australian islands from the country's migration zone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You do realize that being under the control of a cult is a per-excising condition. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Plus, this films transplants the whole Vampires Vs. Werewolves shtick out of the modern big guns, fast cars world (thankfully excising the over-done bullet time slo-mo) and brings it into the Swords and Armor realm (which means we may get one of the requisite action bits with thousands of arrows falling from the sky). ❋ Unknown (2009)

We see how you free-thinking fornicationists work as surgeons of society's soul, taking scalpels to the sermons, splicing them into wild new principles and axioms, excising the obsolete and grafting in your golden "rules" -- imperatives so abstract they simply must be interpreted anew for every context. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

This was a humanitarian effort designed to prevent a slaughter and weaken Gaddafi to the point that the rebels have a fair shot at excising the guy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Many of the eugenics movement's leaders were New England Protestants, and, using an evangelical tone which harked back to their Puritan forbearers, they proclaimed that the goal of their scientific program was to keep the "American stock" pure by excising the causes of immoral behavior. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the spring of 2003, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer cut short a skiing trip to race to Germany to try prevent the city of Munich from excising Windows and Office from 14,000 desktop PCs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So here ` s the help you need and you should thank our President went he signs this into law today cause then your insurance company will not be able to drop you for a per-excising condition. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I became a copy editor and a news editor and have passed the intervening decades fixing the work of others, excising cliches like "The rest, as they say, is history." ❋ Maxine (2009)

But the NanoKnife, which isn't really a knife, was put to work treating cancer, excising malignant tumors that are near arteries, airways or other vulnerable tissues and thus difficult to remove. ❋ Thomas M. Burton (2010)

And I would think the usual case of modification would be adding restrictions on top of these rather than excising anything. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It may have been during those moments as well that he began developing his preternatural talent for excising unpleasantness from his picture of reality - or replacing that reality altogether with a more uplifting version concocted in his head. ❋ Manuel Roig-Franzia (2011)

The irony is that modern technology has indeed progressed so much, to be able to fix technical things like excising a brain tumor or re-attaching a severed arm. ❋ Unknown (2010)