Barack Obama is accusing Hillary Clinton of slash-and-burn politics. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2008] Reference
The destruction started when slash-and-burn fires got out of control. From Wordnik.com. [Brazil Burning] Reference
"So he's a slash-and-burn man, too, as long as the price is high enough.". From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
The Xinguano and other tribes apparently practiced slash-and-burn agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [Paris On The Amazon] Reference
Barack Obama is accusing the senator from New York of slash-and-burn politics. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2008] Reference
There are negative mailings, there are slash-and-burn phone calls going to people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2007] Reference
Barack Obama is suggesting that Hillary Clinton is engaging in slash-and-burn politics. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2008] Reference
Someone like Marcia - we ` ve got amazing kids and I think it ` s not a slash-and-burn. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 6, 2008] Reference
I didn't have time to listen to what she'd say when she found out it was a slash-and-burn. From Wordnik.com. [Futures Imperfect]
The traditional slash-and-burn agriculture has resulted in deforestation and soil exhaustion. From Wordnik.com. [Water profile of Sierra Leone] Reference
And the reality is that ` s the divisive slash-and-burn tactics, that ` s negative politics over. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2008] Reference
Enter Chris Christie, former federal prosecutor, running for governor on a slash-and-burn platform. From Wordnik.com. [The Governor Who Slashes Budgets With A Smile] Reference
BROWN: It's the deceptive slash-and-burn attacks that he believes are hurting the political system. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2007] Reference
So his £25,000 threshold will help him cut costs more than the most ferocious slash-and-burn efficiency tsar. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
The book she wrote, Domestic Manners of the Americans, a slash-and-burn exposé, was a best-seller in England. From Wordnik.com. [Like Dickens, I'm a Tourist On Withered Ground] Reference
Traditional slash-and-burn agriculture and cutting trees to make handicrafts for tourists are only partly to blame. From Wordnik.com. [Not As Green As They Seem] Reference
"" He's been there four years -- my view is it's too late, '' says slash-and-burn veteran Dunlap, now CEO at Sunbeam. From Wordnik.com. [A Star Image Blurs] Reference
He had been cultivating rice on a jhum, a temporary slash-and-burn farm, on the river Tut, toward the Bangladesh border. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting for the Plague] Reference
Soon after she arrived on 43rd Street, the word was that her shell-shocked staff was appalled at her slash-and-burn methods. From Wordnik.com. [Power Punk: Jodi Kantor] Reference
Crops grown on this slash-and-burn land undercut American farmers and ranchers producing corn, soy, canola, meat and leather. From Wordnik.com. [Halting Tropical Deforestation Is in the US Interest -- Just Ask US Farmers and Ranchers] Reference
I remember, Republicans have a history, I think, of using these sort of negative slash-and-burn tactics in order to win elections. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2008] Reference
And it confirms that they want a politics that is unifying, as opposed to divisive, and that they're tired of slash-and-burn politics. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2006] Reference
It could have been one of those slash-and-burn, take-no-prisoners kind of divorces that madeThe War of the Roses look like a skirmish. From Wordnik.com. [The Payback Club]
Their slash-and-burn farming techniques depleted the soil of nutrients and made crops more difficult to grow to feed a growing population. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: People Count: Hot on the Trail - April 23, 2000] Reference
The government in Dublin announced not one but three slash-and-burn budgets that took the axe to the public sector and welfare entitlements. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland's austerity measures show us how not to do it] Reference
Obama's advisers respected that he was trying to create a different kind of politics that placed hope over fear, substance over slash-and-burn. From Wordnik.com. [Inside Obama’s Dream Machine] Reference
His advice began with harsh warnings about the evils of indolence that would no doubt find favour among slash-and-burn coalition welfare ministers. From Wordnik.com. [The trouble with boys] Reference
With respect to the slash-and-burn politics, Wolf, that's something that not only was the Davis administration doing, but Republicans did it as well. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2003] Reference
The instrument came to embody a hip-hugging Philly jazz sound that was equal parts churchyard hum, speakeasy sizzle and slash-and-burn bar-room blooze. From Wordnik.com. [Blues for an Organ Grinder] Reference
Environment -- current issues: deforestation attributable to slash-and-burn agriculture and the use of wood for fuel; recent droughts affecting agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
Look, this is -- this presents a real challenge to Gray Davis, because you can't get in the slash-and-burn kind of mode here if you're running against a nice guy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2003] Reference
To be sure, "Dude, Where's My Country" is not a fair-and-balanced argument, but a bitter, slash-and-burn polemic that will revive the spirits of disheartened Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: We're Baaaa-Aack] Reference
Kristol quickly developed the slash-and-burn tactics that served him so well this fall, taking on the nabobs of higher education and, later with Quayle, attacking Murphy Brown. From Wordnik.com. [The Gop's Three Amigos] Reference
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