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  • Yesterday there were two tractors hauling trailers full of fodder – for the elephants, which the authorities use for tree-pruning?

    Delhi's traffic chaos has a character of its own | Jason Burke 2011

  • U.N. peacekeepers said they tried to delay the Israeli tree-pruning operation that led to a deadly border clash with Lebanese soldiers, but said the tree was in Israeli territory.

    U.N. Says It Tried to Prevent Israel-Lebanon Clash 2010

  • When the U.N. immediately notified the Lebanese side of Israel's tree-pruning operation, the Lebanese "had reservations," he said.

    U.N. Says It Tried to Prevent Israel-Lebanon Clash 2010

  • He added that if the DA were in charge, there would be pro-active tree-pruning programmes and remote electrical fault detection and switch reset mechanisms.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • He pushed past five-gallon containers of herbicide, tree-pruning equipment, spare tires for a Jeep, coils of cyclone fencing, hundred-pound fertilizer bags, stacks of brown ceramic insulators, empty motor-oil cans, work lights and cables.

    Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991

  • There was no repeat of Tuesday's clash when the Israeli army moved a crane back into the tense border zone to complete a tree-pruning mission that had drawn Lebanese army fire.

    IBTimes.com : Top News 2010

  • Israel said a Lebanese army sniper opened fire on two Israeli officers as they watched a tree-pruning operation on the Israeli side of a security fence below the U.N. "Blue line."

    Haaretz.com headlines RSS 2010

  • Israel said a Lebanese army sniper opened fire on two Israeli officers as they watched a tree-pruning operation on the Israeli side of a security fence below the U.N. "Blue line."

    Haaretz.com headlines RSS 2010

  • Israel said a Lebanese army sniper opened fire last week on two Israeli officers as they watched a tree-pruning operation on the Israeli side of a security fence below the United

    Haaretz.com headlines RSS 2010

  • "The easiest part, I think, for this campus is the expenditures," White said, citing the campus's tree-pruning summer program and preservation of trees around construction areas.

    Kentwired.com Aaron Kinney 2010

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