Mr Selten's work let economists whittle down the number of possible Nash equilibria.
They are trying to whittle down our salaries.
One of the central intellectual projects in the Constitution of Liberty is the Humean one to use reason to whittle down the claims of reason.
Nowak has been busy working on how to whittle down the emergence of life into the simplest possible chemical system that he can describe mathematically.
Furthermore, with the equity markets still in turmoil, Freescale may not be able in the near future to whittle down its debts by selling shares to the public.