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Example sentences for: carve

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Justice officials bristle at the charge that the secret courts also carve out a de facto national-security exemption to both the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of warrantless surveillance and the Fifth Amendment's guarantees of due process.
There were, moreover, no attempts to carve Lincoln in the nude with drapery, as there had been with Washington, no efforts to heroicize him out of his trousers, just as there were none to popularize him with comfy sportswear.
Life must have been pretty boring for the soldiers as many had the time to carve their names in the stones along the battlements.
In the Bahrain daily Akhbar al-Khaleej , the Egyptian columnist Assayed Zahra wrote that the United States was now carrying out its intention to carve up Iraq along ethnic and sectarian lines and to trigger a civil war that would unseat Saddam.
Scientists found a new candidate for the missing link between apes and humans . The 2.5 million-year-old creature, dubbed Australopithecus garhi , evidently used stone tools to carve up the animals it killed and had much bigger teeth than its apelike ancestors.