Pruning techniques such as coppicing and pollarding make use of this natural response to damage to direct plant growth and produce a desired shape, size, and / or productivity level for the plant.

* Pruning shears, used for cutting branches and stems

Pruning is best accomplished in the winter for deciduous varieties, or when cuttings are desired.

The No. 8 Couteau du Jardin or Garden Knife uses a folding drop-point blade in concert with a slim, tapered wood handle, while the Opinel No. 8 and No. 10 Pruning Knives, designed for pruning shrubs and vines, feature a large folding hawkbill blade fitted to an elegantly curved wooden handle.

Over the years, some of these have resulted in acquittals and the vast majority end in prison time for the actors, the longest of which were those meted out to the 1984 group, the Silo Pruning Hooks ( after the Biblical verse admonishing people to turn swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks — both Micah and Isaiah ), two of whom earned 18 years in federal prison.

Pruning often means cutting branches back, sometimes removing smaller limbs entirely.

* J. P. Joseph Maingot with David Dehler, Politicians Above the Law: A case for the abolition of parliamentary inviolability ( Baico Publishing 2011 ) ( ISBN 978-1-926596-84-6 )

Politicians countered with charges of inappropriate interference in political affairs, and some accused him of hypocrisy, saying that he himself had a case to answer for his role in Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara's resignation from the presidency.

Politicians from local entities joined the opposition, saying their communities could not be evacuated quickly in case of an accident, as any land evacuation off the island would involve traveling at least back through New York City to reach its bridges.

Politicians countered with charges of inappropriate interference in political affairs, and some accused him of hypocrisy, saying that he himself had a case to answer for his role in Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara's resignation from the Presidency on 29 May 2000.

Politicians often resent this need for separation – sometimes sending their bodyguards away from them for personal or publicity reasons ; U. S. President William McKinley did this at the public reception where he was assassinated.

Politicians, ancient and modern, have employed hero worship for their own apotheosis ( i. e., cult of personality ).

Sponsors were secured, and players and coaches from local colleges were recruited to volunteer to play for the teams, the Chicago Politicians and Rockford Metros, with the guarantee of a tryout should the league take off.

Politicians and scholars have frequently called for a process of " inner reunification " of the two countries and asked whether there is " inner unification or continued separation ".

Politicians are placed in apparently compromising positions because of their need to solicit financial contributions for their campaign finance.

Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1, 000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers ( And Writers, Politicians Comedians, Browsers ) ( 1995 ).

Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1, 000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers ( And Writers, Politicians Comedians, Browsers ).

Politicians captivated by the ‘ struggle for victory ’ corrupt the ideals that brought them into politics in the first place.

" Politicians of all stripes who had to deal with the magazine's attention often voiced their disaffection for it.

At his death, he held a gold medal awarded for his Village Politicians at the Paris Exhibition of 1814.

Politicians receive campaign contributions and other payoffs from powerful corporations, organizations or individuals in return for making choices in the interests of those parties, or in anticipation of favorable policy.

Politicians have expressed concern, however, that the merger would affect the quality of news for southern Scotland, in particular, would fail if it lost its customised bulletins.

Politicians, town planners and nearby residents have been arguing for years about the construction of a second runway.

Politicians and politics were standard dinner-table topics in Bradley's childhood, and he described his father as a " solid Republican " who was an elector for Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.

Politicians include the 28th and current Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario David Onley, Member of Parliament for Scarborough — Guildwood John McKay, Member of Provincial Parliament for Scarborough — Guildwood Margarett Best, and former Member of Provincial Parliament Mary Anne Chambers.

* 1833: Bertrand et Raton, on l ' art de conspirer ( The School for Politicians )

Politicians of Canada West begin to argue for representation by population (' rep by pop ').

Politicians remembered Adi Kuini as a committed Christian and champion of racial tolerance, and as one who fought for reform of the chiefly system by insisting on standards of accountability for all chiefs.

Politicians and private-sector experts of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan made proposals for a thorough operational and budgetary review in the government's energy policy screening session earlier in the week before his visit.

Politicians that have graduated from Penn Law include Joseph Sill Clark ( Mayor of Philadelphia, and U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania ), Charles Robert Miller ( Governor of Delaware ), Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. ( former Chairman CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and U. S. Ambassador to Sweden ), Raul Roco ( former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines ), Oscar Goodman ( Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada ), Harry Arista Mackey ( Mayor of Philadelphia ), Martin J. Silverstein ( U. S. Ambassador to Uruguay ) and Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky ( member of the U. S. House of Representatives and women's rights activist ).

Thomas Lanier Clingman ( July 27, 1812November 3, 1897 ), known as the " Prince of Politicians ," was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and from 1847 to 1858, and U. S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1858 and 1861.

Politicians he has donated to since January 2011 include U. S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ( R-KY ), U. S. House Speaker John Boehner ( R-OH ), U. S. Senator Dean Heller ( R-NV ), U. S. Congressman Mark Amodei ( R-NV ), U. S. Congressman Joe Heck ( R-NV ) and former Florida House Speaker Adam Hasner.

Politicians in the British House of Commons and Upper Canada's executive council questioned the motives for the extradition, as well as its legality.

Image: 2005 03 01 rice blair 600. jpg | Politicians and leaders are often shown smiling as this is considered a sign of hospitality and confidence.

Index to Politicians: Lynchburg to Lynwood .. URL accessed on November 11, 2005.

* God and the Politicians, 28 September 2005, a documentary film that looks at the important question of the increasing religious influence on politics in the UK

* The Political Graveyard ( March 10, 2005 ), Politicians in Railroading in Indiana.

In April 2005 he presented the Channel 4 programme in the Election Unspun series, Why Politicians Can't Tell The Truth, examining how the major political parties in Britain allegedly pursue an agenda designed to appeal only to a narrow band of floating voters expected to be decisive in the UK General Elections of 2005.

The Vote For Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket was renamed Make Politicians History on 26 September 2005, led by Ronnie Carroll.

Yet though the Southern States lost the worst errors in their case, they did not lose the truth they fought for.

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

Just as in the case of every prodigy child, we must watch for the efficacy of my teaching to show up in the future -- if he should master all the strenuous exercises I inflicted on him.

It could reach key tactical points faster than infantry and destroy them or hold them as the case might be for the foot soldier.

New Orleans had a notorious red-light district extending over twenty-eight city blocks, and the business-minded mayor of the city journeyed to Washington to present the case for `` the God-given right of men to be men ''.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

In a recent book called `` World Peace Through World Law '', two distinguished lawyers, Grenville Clark and Louis Sohn, call for just such an overhaul of the U.N., basing their case on the world-wide fear of a nuclear holocaust.

The Park Service makes an impressive ecological and statistical case for creating this new park.

In this case he has put the alternatives clearly to Mr. Khrushchev for the third time.

The arguments advanced by those individuals and groups who oppose the system in force and who would drastically curtail or do away entirely with hospital care for the non-service-connected case, seem to be coldly impractical and out-of-step with the wishes of the general public.

In particular, Governor Nelson Rockefeller has expressed as cogently and clearly as anyone the case for a resumption of atmospheric tests.

Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.

When Alex entered his room, the doctor was already preparing a nest in the straw case, six eggs ready for the hen's attentions.

unwarranted they were in any case for, as he stood facing the fille de chambre, his ears were assailed by new sounds from the interior of the shower room.

In connection with any claim decided by the Commission pursuant to this Title in which an award is made, the Commission may, upon the written request of the claimant or any attorney heretofore or hereafter employed by such claimant, determine and apportion the just and reasonable attorney's fees for services rendered with respect to such claim, but the total amount of the fees so determined in any case shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to the award.

All payments authorized under Section 7 of this Title shall be disbursed from the proper fund, as the case may be, and all amounts covered into the Treasury to the credit of the aforesaid funds are hereby permanently appropriated for the making of the payments authorized by Section 7 of this Title.

Under P. L. 113, 78th Congress, the Federal Government assumed responsibility for 100% of necessary State expenditures in connection with administration and the counseling and placement of the disabled, and for 50% of the necessary costs of providing clients with rehabilitation case services.

As is the case with the allotment provisions for support of vocational rehabilitation services, the matching requirements are also based on a statutory formula.

In the case of taxpaying corporate stockholders, the measure would be the lesser of the fair market value of the shares or Du Pont's tax basis for them, which is approximately $2.09 per share.

In any case, there is no special milling or rabbeting required for the panels.

In each case, having separate systems for living and sleeping areas has the advantage of permitting individual zone control.