The economic impact of the winnowing will likely be healthy.

Now it's a winnowing of the field, which is very different."

And the third winnowing will be a celebration of death."

In this tougher environment, the evolutionary winnowing should begin pretty quickly.

The agency was eliminated from the first review in August, during an early winnowing of the field.

The show itself seems all the livelier for the extra winnowing.

"The winnowing of the guest list should provide the rooms necessary.

As it becomes clear how the winnowing has worked in different groups, researchers can make some guesses about those left behind.

An earlier generation went through its own traumatic winnowing.

The first test, the first winnowing, before any training even, was to step through one of those three rings.

But until the winnowing starts, a foreign or Indian buyer has a lot to choose from, at prices that begin under $200.

The deal is the latest sign of the winnowing of the warehouse industry.

It is where the sorting out and winnowing of candidates traditionally starts.

"So you would not relegate the vanished young ones to the winnowing of the evil?"

Winnowing of this vast set of candidates is currently under way.

It is reflective of figure skating's cruel winnowing that someone 19 years old can be in decline.

The winnowing out of my lesser selves is not displeasing to me.

But it remains to be seen whether the Darwinian winnowing of the wireless ranks will humor such efforts.

But because of this grim winnowing of our kind we have developed resisting power.

It seemed to Gawen that she looked upon the losses as a necessary winnowing, which would leave them all the stronger.

Microsoft portrayed its Longhorn decision as a necessary winnowing to hit the 2006 timetable.

This name is far from unique in Wales, and refers to the fact that winnowing must at one time have been undertaken here.

The reason the current search services consistently rank among the most popular Web sites is that many people presumably do want some winnowing.

The winnowing, she adds, will not be easy.

The list was winnowed to 45 and then to 11.

That list was winnowed to seven, and now to three.

"This administration is going to have to winnow them down."

The number of plays was winnowed down to 150, then 45, finally to 15.

I winnowed my writings, and still there were too many.

Further, in the last five years, many of the weaker companies have been winnowed out.

He winnowed the candidates down to 100 for phone interviews.

Harris would be "winnowed out" just over a month later.

She winnowed this group down to three, each of whom had left home during a different decade.

The idea was to winnow the field of contenders, and it worked.

He had several ideas; time, then, to winnow them and see what remained.

That made it difficult for a critic to winnow a list of high points to 10.

Those are winnowed thoroughly by the intelligence community, every single one.

And for many reasons, that short list can be winnowed even further, to just three banks, in fact.

A long tongue of red flame winnowed out over the street.

Blade tried to follow it all, trying to winnow something that would help him.

From that they winnowed the list down to the dozen who will actually perform.

"How the hell can we winnow that down to something manageable?"

That should yield a number of responses not too large, which could then be winnowed further.

Possibly after Florida, the race might be winnowed down to three candidates.

At the trial just concluded, prosecutors winnowed their case to three weeks from four.

We'll keep talking to all clubs and winnow things down in the next 7 to 10 days."

The list, while greatly winnowed down, is far larger than usual.

And the 40 elderly people served earlier this year will be winnowed down to 25 by June.

Again the problem is to winnow these down to manageable proportions.