How To Use Clear-cut In A Sentence

The first half had ended goalless with few clear-cut chances. Times, Sunday Times
Clear-cut clinical evidence of a hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus should be present, such as respiratory distress, a continuous murmur, a hyperactive precordium, cardiomegaly and pulmonary plethora on chest x-ray. THE MEDICAL NEWS
This analysis suggests that, from a practical point of view, it is not easy to draw a clear-cut distinction between a collecting bank and a discounting bank.
As this column demonstrated last week, this polarisation is extreme and has clear-cut economic, cultural and political manifestations.
It is rare to have such a clear-cut case. The Sun

It really gravels me that everything was cut; they clear-cut everything.
You have the picture of a party that is rudderless and adrift, with no clear-cut strategies of providing principled opposition on issues.
The Prime Minister I agree with my hon. Friend about the importance of clear-cut and low corporate and personal tax rates.
When they started working on the case, not only did they find clear-cut Batson violations—a former prosecutor who worked in the DA’s office around the time of Bo’s trial would later testify that the philosophy of his office was, in his own words, “that prospective black jurors at that time were antipolice, antiestablishment, and should not be left on juries”—but they also turned up significant evidence that Bo was innocent of murder. Living Justice
This can mean narrowing roads and removing clear-cut edges, prompting drivers to navigate with care.
At least there the answers were clear-cut and relatively easy to find.
BILL: Let me take a case thats really clear-cut, which is the Microsoft case. Creative Capitalism
Whatever high-flown rhetoric comes from the president next week, the reality is clear-cut.
I heard no specifics, no innovative strategies and nothing that compared to Obama's clear-cutplans: middle-class tax cuts, boosting the alternative energy and manufacturing sectors and reforming health care, the auto industry, reinvesting in infrastructure and educationand reducing spending in Iraq. Jindal's Condescending Response Elicits Douchechills
The trees were planted from propagules, in April 1994, in an overexploited clear-cut area.
In the real world, no hedge fund or other large trader actually ‘loots’ a fund, embezzles assets, or engages in other clear-cut forms of larceny.
We have analysed the measures in great detail, and legally speaking, this seems a clear-cut case.
The priestess, whose clear-cut features and two lovely black eyes betrayed a mixture of Semitic blood, was examining the 'turnip' -- as she called the watch -- when Leonora, saying 'Mum's the word,' rather violently called my attention (with her elbow) to a strange parcel lying apart from the rest. He
Transcription has the unfortunate tendency to make things seem simpler and more clear-cut than they really are.
As such, it has been saved from the clear-cut logging that has razed forests.
My own approach is not biographical, and assumes neither a clear-cut persona nor a narrative sequence.
It's not a clear-cut situation to say we've beaten one of the best teams in the world.
Honey Anna Scott-so clear-cut, so far in the lead.
Another depicts a woman lying in a clear-cut field.
My understanding now is that the situation was not so clear-cut.
The appearance of a quid pro quo in the Hammer pardon is much more clear-cut than it is in the Rich case.
The plight of others is less clear-cut. Times, Sunday Times
Of the three slides per tooth, the one with the least diagenetic damage and the most clear-cut microstructure was used in the analysis PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
This was a clear-cut case of the original land owner being in the right.
Large, clear-cut, crystalline windows shone in the late afternoon sun, casting colorful rainbows across the expansive lawn.
There are no clear-cut rules for deciding what's fair use and there are no ‘automatic’ classes of fair uses.
The game also saw eight yellow cards but although there was controversy there were few clear-cut chances. The Sun
This was a clear-cut case of the original land owner being in the right.
This clear-cut distinction was upset in the 1960s and 70s by the discovery of unusual medium-sized theropod dinosaurs such as Deinonychus.
The non-binding, but clear-cut ruling by the International Court of Justice is a major blow to Serbia and will complicate efforts to draw the former pariah ex-Yugoslav republic into the Reuters: Top News
To be fair to users, finding ways of exploiting those existing resources has been no easy task as no clear-cut technological solution to the problem has existed until now.
Neither side could win a clear-cut victory, so they decided to put the stock of all three railroads in a holding company owned by the two groups. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
After the clear-cutting, the north slope germinated a thick mat of young Douglas fir and larch.
Although all kings seemingly passed through a ritual inauguration - the evidence is less clear-cut for Wales than elsewhere - only the English kings were anointed with holy oil in the style of the main western European monarchies.
So what was being proposed was a clear-cut, twin-track system of either 'independent advice' or 'sales'. Times, Sunday Times
In light of this, it seems difficult to define clear-cut rules for when data should be combined and when they should not.
Critics claim that because conventional fuels are needed in the production and refining process, the ultimate benefit of biofuels to the environment is not clear-cut.
Duncan Kerr would argue that he's not making the removal of a judge any easier, he's just setting out a clear-cut formula or a clear-cut procedure for dealing with a crisis if it emerges.
She has clear-cut evidence that the company cheated her.
clear-cut an acre of forest
Its characters are presented ambiguously and their conflicts are not structured in terms of clear-cut oppositions between good and evil.
Just before the locks and dams impounded water, timber was clear-cut and the remaining stump fields are so hazardous that even avid fishermen avoid them.
First, models in molecular genetics are still inadequate for defining clear-cut molecular disease entities.
But is the case really as clear-cut as it seems? The Sun
When you think of older films, you tend to think of a gentler, more naïve time in cinema, with clear-cut moral distinctions and with heroes and villains who keep to their respective shades of white and black.
(court tennis, racquets, squash tennis, for example) whose original clear-cut identity has become hazy owing to recently created sports, such as racquetball and platform tennis, which share some of the characteristics of the older games. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
One participant talked of how it takes a multi-national forestry company five seconds to cut a tree by today's standard clear-cutting methods.
Our moral sense dictates a clear-cut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. The Good Fight
Several stands adjacent to those fragments had been harvested by clear-cut logging one to two years prior to this study.
It's amazing how well they can negotiate some half-regrown clear-cut strewn with tops like it's not really there. Moose in Your Face
There is no clear-cut distinction between the plausible and the fantastic.
For the Australian situation presents a fairly clear-cut picture of some three distinct schools of poetry operating at a degree of intensity never before known in this remarkably uncultured and unpoetical country.
Cultures are not essential in selected young women when clear-cut signs and symptoms of acute dysuria indicate a high probability of uncomplicated cystitis.
Yet such a scenario now appears far less clear-cut. Times, Sunday Times
On the output side the similarity is less clear-cut.
We tend to take a clear-cut view of what being a victim of crime entails, and who the victim is in every case.
First, the forest is clear-cut and burnt, and the soil tilled and treated with large quantities of lime to correct its natural acidity.
The sky ahead of them was wide-streaked with gold, as if for a symbol, interlaid with sooty clouds in silhouette; on either side the mountains rose from penumbral darkness to clear-cut heights still bright from the slanting radiance. The Silver Horde
In order to salvage the wood, huge tracts of upland forest were clear-cut.
There is no clear-cut answer to this question.
But the difference may not be quite so clear-cut as they suggest. Christianity Today
It is hard to think of a more clear-cut case of party political campaigning by a charity. Times, Sunday Times
It is only in the elite price category, $ 35 and above, that Champagne holds a clear-cut advantage.
When Northwest coniferous forests are clear-cut, hardwoods are often the first trees to grow in their place.
This manifests, in my opinion, a clear-cut case of cultural and ethnocentric chauvinism on the part of the European scholars.
It's not a clear-cut situation to say we've beaten one of the best teams in the world.
In other words it enables one to modify the artificially simplistic notion of clear-cut dependent and independent variables having one-way causal links.
In their own way, they were both iconoclasts with a common weakness: a deep-rooted disdain for brutish, clear-cut answers.
No other historical transformation has quite the same clear-cut and definite character.
There must be a clear-cut definition of the authority of the transition committee.
A clear-cut distinction cannot always be made between alphabets proper and syllabaries, sets of syllabic symbols as in the Japanese kana systems.
A clear-cut distinction cannot always be made between alphabets proper and syllabaries, sets of syllabic symbols as in the Japanese kana systems.
In western Washington, they are usually in areas that have been clear-cut, burned, or otherwise disturbed.
The hunting party had only been walking for a few hundred meters when he stopped at the edge of a clear-cut swath about five hundred meter wide.
It became clear that it wasn't a clear-cut hydraulics failure, as the gauge was reading erratically without the associated warning or caution.
There is not always a clear-cut distinction between right and wrong.
Back at the bar, Maxwell Cole was looking at his latte with all the distaste of a tree-hugger faced with a clear-cut. BREACH OF DUTY
The people want clean politicians fighting for clear-cut issues. Times, Sunday Times
The international loggers have correctly perceived that, once they have paid for the lease, their interests are best served by clear-cutting the rainforest on their leased land.
The road runs down hushed aisles of lofty Douglas fir, hemlock and Sitka spruce, and passes through deadened stretches of clear-cut forest, forlorn and empty.
This summer, people will be taking steps to prevent the clear-cut areas from being sprayed to kill off hardwood growth.
It is not easy to put the guilty and innocent into clear-cut categories.
We have recorded 66 clear-cut experiments on dogs, which show that after fear and rage, after anaphylaxis, after injections of indol and skatol, of leucin and creatin, of the toxins of diphtheria and colon bacilli, of streptococci and staphylococci, of foreign proteins, and of strychnin, the Cannon test for adrenalin was positive. The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
Again it is extremely difficult for clinical research to provide clear-cut answers to the best approach. Times, Sunday Times
However, much of the world's coffee is grown on large plantations that have been clear-cut out of the jungle.
The individual that produces the most clear-cut signal is most likely to have the most offspring.
They prefer unaltered forest, and populations generally decline after forests have been clear-cut.
Every facet and broken stone of the Parthenon, on its high crag, was brown and clear-cut as crystal. COUP D'ETAT
Most of the desertification in Africa is due to man clear-cutting to allow crops to grow, and then after a few years they leave only cropless dirt, which causes temperature increases, which changes the weather patterns and so and and so forth. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
I'm often struck by how real-life medicine rarely resembles the straightforward diagnoses and clear-cut choices found in textbooks.
During the ensuing two decades, lumbermen went on to clear-cut the majority of the timber in the Smokies.
“They believe on the whole in individualism rather than tribalism, national patriotism rather than ethnic loyalty, meritocracy rather than nepotism, nuclear families rather than extended clans, law and fair play rather than privilege, corporations of strangers rather than mafias of relatives, and true love rather than the arranged marriages necessary to keep ethnic categories clear-cut.” The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
In Washington, these are often located at openings within coniferous forests, clear-cuts, wetlands, rivers, and along brushy hillsides, at low to middle elevations.
The trees were planted from propagules, in April 1994, in an overexploited clear-cut area.
I once tried to protect the Mt. Graham red squirrel's habitat from a clear-cut on Forest Service land.
Her features were clear-cut, flawless; the expression exquisitely grave and pure; the large grey eyes had that steady glow which shows a firm and undisturbed will. AE in the Irish Theosophist
Identifying a clear-cut programme, the National Women's Action Committee announced a campaign to rid the streets of vagrants.
There is no clear-cut answer to this question.
clear-cut evidence of tampering
Not everything should be forced to become clear-cut, if it is not so in the text.
Parent-child identification is less clear-cut among girls than it appears to be in boys.
There are no clear-cut answers to the baffling problem of the cause of stammering. Stammering in Young Children
The unbruised adolescent ego likes its angst to be clear-cut and attributable to the denigrations of an insouciant universe.
There was a lot of pretty passing but few clear-cut chances. The Sun
Reading cranked up the pressure but found clear-cut chances hard to come by. The Sun
Furthermore, if firms pursue objectives other than profit maximisation then the picture becomes even less clear-cut.
What constitutes apostrophe misuse is less clear-cut than you might suppose after visiting name-and-shame-type websites. Apostrophes in business names and place names
The technique allowed easy and clear-cut distinction between empty and full vessels.
In 1982, a debris torrent poured off a clear-cut, carrying huge trees from the downstream, uncut forest.
A number of subsequent studies have examined the relationship of employment performance and earnings dispersion with less clear-cut results than implied in the Jobs Study.
There's no clear-cut distinction between severe depression and mental illness.
Furthermore, if firms pursue objectives other than profit maximisation then the picture becomes even less clear-cut.
Edwin van der Sar denied Cole onone occasion and Nicolas Anelka had a couple of shots blocked butclear-cut chances were rare. Football.co.uk news feed
Their claims about improved fuel efficiency and so on are less clear-cut. Times, Sunday Times
The tondo, much more so than the altarpiece, was not a clear-cut category in quattrocento and early cinquecento Florence.
Structural linguists question the existence of a clear-cut distinction between what is grammatical and what is ungrammatical.
I rose skywards like a water-moth for the sun, emerged and strapped on my diving gear for my next oceanic clear-cut.
There no longer is a clear-cut definition of liberal and conservative.
While our medieval art appears, well, medieval, the parallel achievements of Turkish creatives are bright, smart, clear-cut and astonishingly modern-looking.
Our choice was simply between wringing our hands against all logging or offering plantation thinning as a positive alternative to clear-cutting the old stuff.
It came as opinion polls pointed to no clear-cut victory at the election. The Sun
We started our bushwalk at the edge of another clear-cut, this one beside Diogenes Creek.
clear-cut hillsides are subject to erosion
This was a clear-cut case of the original land owner being in the right.
However, much of the world's coffee is grown on large plantations that have been clear-cut out of the jungle.
a clear-cut pattern
You start in deep forest and quickly come out into clear-cut.
We have recorded 66 clear-cut experiments on dogs, which show that after fear and rage, after anaphylaxis, after injections of indol and skatol, of leucin and creatin, of the toxins of diphtheria and colon bacilli, of streptococci and staphylococci, of foreign proteins, and of strychnin, the Cannon test for adrenalin was positive. The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
In my view, a directed verdict of acquittal is clear-cut in these circumstances.
Operating in a moral gray area beyond the reach of any clear-cut legal jurisdiction, Zamora claims to have returned 54 children to left-behind parents. The Snatchback
The situation in the pace department is less clear-cut. Times, Sunday Times
This was a clear-cut case of the original land owner being in the right.
In other words it enables one to modify the artificially simplistic notion of clear-cut dependent and independent variables having one-way causal links.
Population pressures, poverty, and clear-cutting are rapidly deforesting the Earth while causing much associated damage.
They believe on the whole in individualism rather than tribalism, national patriotism rather than ethnic loyalty, meritocracy rather than nepotism, nuclear families rather than extended clans, law and fair play rather than privilege, corporations of strangers rather than mafias of relatives, and true love rather than the arranged marriages necessary to keep ethnic categories clear-cut. The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
Joan was standing up in the stern-sheets, reiterating her good-byes -- a slim figure of a woman in the tight-fitting jacket she had worn ashore from the wreck, the long-barrelled Colt's revolver hanging from the loose belt around her waist, her clear-cut face like a boy's under the Stetson hat that failed to conceal the heavy masses of hair beneath. Chapter 16
The programme helps participants by giving them a clear-cut plan of action to focus on positive attitude, unlearn bad habits and build healthy relationships.
As protracted exchange-rate misalignments are a recurrent phenomenon in global currency markets, may we conclude that the ‘euro puzzle’ represents just another incidence of their malfunctioning, a clear-cut market failure?
So, even if we have not yet reached the point of clear-cutting the last proud acre of old-growth randomness, maybe it's not too early to consider the question of long-term supply.
Central bank Governor Gill Marcus separately said that while the rand is undoubtedly overvalued, in part due to attractive interest rates in South Africa, there is no clear-cut answer to what can be done. South Africa Warns on Joining 'Currency War'
Bog forests were essentially clear-cut and a large portion of the nutrient base supporting these forests was probably removed with the timber.
The Supreme Court ruled that honest-services fraud can still be used to prosecute clear-cut crimes such as bribes or kickbacks, but not in murkier circumstances like the case against Mr. Skilling. Appeals Panel Hears Skilling Argument
The living oceans are becoming as vacant as a clear-cut forest.
But the clear-cut idea of the city was subverted by the rise to power of the class tellingly named (after the fortified ''bourgs'' of medieval France) ''people of the town.''
Erected to keep the company from clear-cutting their land, the barricade is reportedly the longest-running in Canadian history.
And on this point the answer is clear-cut. Times, Sunday Times
It was not a clear-cut case. Times, Sunday Times
And you know, you have to understand it's a very clear-cut thing.
Anderson grapples with this supposed contrast and arrives at the conclusion that it is not that clear-cut.
On the output side the similarity is less clear-cut.
In other words it enables one to modify the artificially simplistic notion of clear-cut dependent and independent variables having one-way causal links.
Again it is extremely difficult for clinical research to provide clear-cut answers to the best approach. Times, Sunday Times
Typical acne was present in addition to the excoriations in 33 percent while only increased oiliness and no clear-cut acne lesions were present in 67 percent.
Presentational infidelity is less clear-cut and less readily identifiable than selectivity or measurement distortion.
The scientists say the rain forests are made vulnerable to clear-cutting by the networks of access roads left behind by logging operations.
The Bhagavad-Gita occupies an intermediate position between scripture and theology; for it combines the poetical qualities of the first with the clear-cut methodicalness of the second. The Perennial Philosophy
There are two quite obvious and clear-cut sides to this issue.
We restricted them to only a few clear-cut chances and showed resilience and a real work ethic. Times, Sunday Times
In practice, even in multi-business enterprises the distinction between corporate and business strategies is less clear-cut than the theoretical definitions would suggest.
As expected, the results show a clear-cut hierarchy with the upper class on the top rung of the ladder and the unskilled laborers on the bottom rung.
In the classical perspective, there was a clear-cut distinction between what was considered to be simple and what had to be considered as complex.
There is, however, no clear-cut distinction, rather a continuum exists between the specific procedures and general information gathering.
Even under the laws of man, there is nothing clear-cut about the ownership of these creatures of the deep.
The answer is not clear-cut. The Times Literary Supplement
The aspirations for change were never clear-cut, and from the start they also echoed forms of opposition to absolutism that had very different roots in the defence of older corporate or regional autonomies.
My own approach is not biographical, and assumes neither a clear-cut persona nor a narrative sequence.
This was a clear-cut case of the original land owner being in the right.
The ornamental patterns are clear-cut, expressive, varied and unconstrainedly rhythmical.
There no longer is a clear-cut definition of liberal and conservative.
Those who profit from clear-cutting hillsides contribute to the floods that sweep away the homes and crops of those living below.
It is only in the elite price category, $ 35 and above, that Champagne holds a clear-cut advantage.
This was a clear-cut case of the original land owner being in the right.
Instead of the gorgeous scenic vistas of the Cascade Mountains favored by many artists at the time, he painted scarred clear-cut areas, the loggers' aftermath.
Reasons are not clear-cut, but various aspects of rural social life have been suggested.
They are often found in revegetating clear-cuts, on farmland, and in rural residential areas.
Again it is extremely difficult for clinical research to provide clear-cut answers to the best approach. Times, Sunday Times
The manager was irate after seeing his side denied a clear-cut penalty.
As an institution, the costs and the rationale for War are no longer a containable or a clear-cut proposition. John Tarnoff: Peace Is the New War: Keys to 21st Century Citizenship
But progress in marriage and parenting for people with learning difficulties is much less clear-cut and visible.
These views can be hard to tell apart: the distinction between radical transformation and outright abolition is not clear-cut.
The state announced a clear-cut policy and set out to carry it through.
In some ways Lewis's theory is the diametric opposite of the equally clear-cut theory first proposed by Jaakko Hintikka (that Cubism is rigorously and defensibly realism) - a theory Lewis in effect ascribes to Clark.
They have been cited as a spur to a recovery in business confidence, though the evidence of this is not clear-cut and, in the case of Japan, flatly contradictory.
Hence, in this analysis, there can be no clear-cut boundary between the military and civilian sectors of society, as each is routinely interpenetrated by the other.
This is one of the reasons why it is difficult to draw a clear-cut distinction between political, economic, and social processes.
It also stresses the need to define clear-cut borders to maintain a democratic society and promote other worthy social goals.
Other facts are not so clear-cut and I had to make choices: he may or may not have lived in the house of his mother-in-law (I decided he did); he converted to Catholicism at the time of his marriage but not necessarily because Catharina was Catholic An interview with Tracy Chevalier about Girl With A Pearl Earring
It has no policy on replanting forests that are being intensively clear-cut.
We had more clear-cut chances and could have been more clinical. The Sun
Their behaviour is a clear-cut case for the return of national service. The Sun
One of them had noticed the paint smear on his way back from an earlier, unsuccessful protest at a clear-cut site.
Their claims about improved fuel efficiency and so on are less clear-cut. Times, Sunday Times
A few weeks later, they surrounded the town's municipal buildings with yellow caution tape demarking an area the size of a local clear-cut forest.
Their claims about improved fuel efficiency and so on are less clear-cut. Times, Sunday Times
The roadless rule was designed to stop the timber giants from clear-cutting these precious natural resources.

How To Use Clear-cut In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):