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Examples of hew
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Barbara Castle's job is to convince them-or at least see that they hew the line.
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People thought he was joking, but hew as against licensing surgeons and so forth.
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All religions assimilate and change, even as they claim to hew to the old truths.
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Egeberg claims to have the complete confidence of HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson.
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The trick is to make even local varieties hew closely to the standard formula.
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Family sitcoms hew to the formula of lumpy guy with hot, smart but secondary wife.
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Kennedy got Congress to appropriate money anyway, but HEW refused to spend it.
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Everyone will wear colonial costume, but the wedding itself won't hew to tradition.
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Experts predict that Abe will hew to Koizumi's domestic and foreign policies.
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- Make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock"
- Strike with an axe; cut down, strike; "hew an oak"
- (hewn) cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel; "a house built of hewn logs"; "rough-hewn stone"; "a path hewn through the underbrush"
- Hew is a masculine given name, and may refer to the following:
- The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America". ...
- To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down; To shape; to form; To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to
- (hewn) Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down; Of something that has been cut or mowed down
- (HEWN) Wood shaped by heavy cutting or chopping blows struck by hand tools such as axes or adzes.
- (Hewn) (IV, 2): fashioned by hewing with a chisel, axe, or other tool; made by or resulting from hewing; Excavated or hollowed out by hewing. Hew: to cut with blows so as to shape, smooth, trim or reduce in size.
