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Growth projections for future years have also been hacked back.

Hack back the foliage to 10cm at the beginning of spring to encourage new growth.

Any techie type know how I can hack back in?

Hack back the growth enough, and the thing dies.

For a brief period of about 20 years, we have actually lived in a free society where we can hack back"."

He hacked back at the thing with his axe.

“We are in the teeth of a great recession, so now is not the time to be hacking back on public spending,” he said.

If anything, too much has been hacked back.

It has hacked back much of the red tape that binds business, and should do the same to immigration rules.

At one point, my dad used a machete to mow or really just hack back our lawn.

They'll assemble as US growth forecasts for 2012 are being hacked back to around 2pc or less.

As airlines struggle to keep flying through the recession schedules are being hacked back – and at short notice.

Others are hacking back investment and shedding jobs.

Partly this is a result of Japanese laws that do not allow victims to "hack back" at cyber-attackers.

Which only leaves the biggest difficulty of all: trying to revive the city when the money available is being savagely hacked back.

Dourly, she stalked around the area, hacking back the brush to form a relatively clear space for the camp.

Mr Sunstein has indeed hacked back some thickets of regulation.

After pushing a drive into the trees and bushes, Kim was lucky to find his ball, which he hacked back out onto the fairway.

Continued funding problems at Korean banks suggest credit lines may be hacked back further, especially if Japan is any guide.

Is the credit crunch going to crack open the legal business and hack back the ambitions and prospects of lawyers?

Her goal is to hack back the size of Europe's fishing fleet in order to have stocks delivering a maximum sustainable yield by 2015.

Westminster’s tendrils, which had spread into every aspect of British life, would be hacked back and replaced by freshly planted local institutions.

Most of corporate America is failing to secure themselves, let alone become competent hackers to hack back against someone like a China.

In the few short years since then, the forest had been hacked back as the land-hungry peasantry nibbled at its edges.

At least the Thatcher government felt able to cut taxes as it set about privatising utilities and hacking back corporatist controls.