Lehman's were 'parcelling' this debt and selling it on with the AAA rating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

· Size of farm, parcelling, and land use potential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

When parcelling out unsolicited advice, one should do so sparingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [whoa, grandma] Reference

'I will get an act for enclosing Nunnely Common, and parcelling it out into farms.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

Interviewees recalled the chief's parcelling out of ka mukulu fields in much the same terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

The Divine is so big, so all-encompassing that we cannot even pray to it without parcelling it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patron Saint of Bloggers | Mind on Fire] Reference

Amber loaned me the first season of "Deadwood" on DVD, and I've been parcelling out a couple of episodes now and then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference

Other statistics given indicate that this parcelling-out has reached its lowest point, and that the reaction has set in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

Then he conceals the assumption by parcelling out the accidental modification in a supposed series of transitional stages.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers] Reference

The parcelling out of land in some wildlife reserves and ranches to peasant farmers by district land committees is ongoing.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

To go this demand-driven route is not as easy as acquiring land, parcelling it up, and making it available to selected beneficiaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

As he did with one of the staged shots in Act 2, he seems to be acting as the "prop master", parcelling out the bodies to the actors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Part 5 - Act 3: The camera runs - Scene 1] Reference

The parcelling up of voters will be based on the electoral roll as it stands next month, and the 3.5 million are unlikely be registered in time.    From Wordnik.com.  [3.5m voters missing from electoral register] Reference

Josh Marshall starts parcelling out the story he's been working on for the past six months concerning bogus intelligence on the Iraq-Niger link.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-08-01] Reference

In the parcelling out of assistance, the liberation movements must not merely be recipients, but must take part in the decisions at the policy-making level.    From Wordnik.com.  [APARTHEID AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY] Reference

This he did, parcelling the rope where the rock was in any way sharp, so as to protect it from being cut; for which purpose he made use of some of the canvas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'] Reference

The parcelling out of the empire by Constantine among his sons led to strife and wars, which, at the end of sixteen years, left Constantius master of the whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

There was packing of belongings, buying and parcelling of food and drink for the journey, and much leave-taking from friends newly made, and arranging of company for the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pilgrim of Hate]

Alexander, in parcelling out his spoils, left himself "hope"!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference

They are parcelling out among themselves Poland, Belgium, Saxony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference

With the parcelling out of wealth we have become much more egoistical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Augustin] Reference

The parcelling out of many of these big properties has been followed by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Calabria] Reference

A naval officer preaching about Republicanism and parcelling out the Land! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

This fills up the grooves and makes the rope smooth and ready for serving or parcelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise] Reference

Here again a dynamic continuity exists previous to the parcelling out of the acceptations.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson] Reference

Often a rope is served without parcelling and for ordinary purposes parcelling is not required.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise] Reference

A body of riggers were at work in parcelling and serving with spun yarn the eyes of the shrouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Cochrane the Dauntless] Reference

"It is nothing to me, but I hate this smug parcelling out of other people's affairs," he went on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Rachael] Reference

But attention must here be called, in passing, to the fact that the parcelling of the domain of Louis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French in the Heart of America] Reference

It is hardly likely that any system of parcelling would have more rapidly developed this vast domain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French in the Heart of America] Reference

The bank that had sent them had departed from all precedent in parcelling out the gold amongst the messengers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Valley] Reference

It required a strict parcelling out of the interval of totality to embrace in it the entire series of observations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

At that time we find the Euphrates Valley divided into a series of states or principalities, parcelling North and South.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference

Meetings are over you may find him with other officers busy still parcelling coppers, or in some other way "serving tables.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Authoritative Life of General William Booth] Reference

On examination, it was found that the parcelling had gone under the ship's counter, and that the copper had nearly destroyed the iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast] Reference

It seems unlikely that the parcelling out of little goodies, bit by bit, to group after group will do much to build long term loyalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impolitical] Reference

It animates the clergy of all sects in the remotest districts; it sets the squire on improving cottages and parcelling out allotments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference

The parcelling out of these three divisions among Anu, Bel, and Ea is therefore merely alluded to in the closing line of the fourth tablet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference

He had terminated all the wars he had undertaken by the rapid defeat of the enemy, the occupation of his capital, and concluded the peace by parcelling out his territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814] Reference