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The next step is to develop a message, which should be clear enough that, if necessary, it could be boiled down to one sentence.

The whole discussion boiled down to the question of whether the government should fix prices.

Eleanor 's poor performance rating boiled down to lack of enthusiasm for her job.

In her words, it boiled down to five factors: appearance, personality, aggressiveness, executive stature, and promotability.

The advice they gave him boiled down to this: he should take care of his own health.

The collective answer of the scientific community can be boiled down to a single word: probably.

This chapter can be boiled down to a few sentences.

But has that sentiment really boiled down to the general population?

In other words, we can promote certain experience to a wide community, while some can only be boiled down to a narrow scope.

The problem thus boiled down to a challenge as old as international relations themselves.

Truth is, though, two scales did most of the work, as many technical jobs boiled down to multiplication and division.

The problem of similarity is boiled down to the problem to search the right transfer function and similarity function.

I made a wish on every star I could see, but usually they boiled down to one.

But the real problem boiled down to a more practical concern .

The essence of the plan can really be boiled down to this: It can no longer be business as usual in the world's financial markets.

There were really no issues and not much patronage, so the race boiled down to grassroots politics and one speech.

What was interesting was they could all be boiled down to just 4 suggestions.

The course of social change has often been boiled down to poetic mantras-of-sorts.

The information and advice are boiled down to bare essentials.

The original speech I had written got boiled down to about ten minutes.

006 of these "are now in [the] implementation queue, boiled down to about 5800 to-do items. "

If they boiled down to a doctrine, it was a violent form of jihad, the holy duty of all Muslims, to make God's word victorious;

Four of his major speeches can be boiled down to these historic four sentences

Professor Susan Fiske of Princeton University has shown that all social judgments can be boiled down to these two dimensions:

They can be boiled down to three: first, the rating agencies have a long list of howlers;