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At this date 'the general sense of the Irish people' was, to Mr. Gladstone's mind, the policy formulated by the Irish Episcopacy, the scheme which at a later stage of the campaign in the following year he described as the lopping off the three branches of the Upas tree of

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

She also rejected the notion of lopping several weeks off the calendar.

SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Chronic wbuchanan@sfchronicle.com (Wyatt Buchanan 2012

You start to see how principles such as lopping a hand off for stealing might start to gain ground again in this country, after several hundred years of abeyance before the principle of “fairness”.

Is fairness enough? Alix Mortimer 2008

You start to see how principles such as lopping a hand off for stealing might start to gain ground again in this country, after several hundred years of abeyance before the principle of “fairness”.

Baby P might have become a “feral, parasitic yob” Alix Mortimer 2008

Associated human impacts such as lopping and cutting of vegetation for fuelwood, setting fires to create grazing lands, and settlements also contribute to habitat degradation.

Northwestern thorn scrub forests 2008

The genus has a recognized capacity for recovery from severe injury such as lopping (Booth and Wickens, 1988), but lopping is not necessarily the best way to achieve optimum sustainable productivity of high quality forage, especially in those species where the foliage is less palatable than the fruit.

Chapter 1 1994

This "lopping" disturbs the harmonious relation of the weights of shoulders, abdomen, head, and the large lower gluteal muscles with which nature has cushioned the lower part of the body, and so they are obliged to readjust themselves to balance each other, and the awkward, ungainly, unhealthful posture results.

What a Young Woman Ought to Know Mary Wood-Allen 1874

Katy, and as if going furiously to work, after they'd all gone, didn't use me up and send me "lopping" down on sofas, sighing like a what's-its-name.

The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss George L. Prentiss 1859

If the answer to both questions is yes, then companies are well advised to go into collective overdrive; if it is no, then they can experiment with more nuanced responses, such as lopping off a tainted product or sacrificing a rogue division.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

But by the time she's wearing a full suit of armor and lopping off heads, he seems to have figured this out, and her voice has altered as much as it can without being inconsistently with where it began.

Ears to Hear: Blood of Ambrose, the Audiobook Lou Anders 2009