| Because you know you get in debt, you get in trouble, you file for bankruptcy, presto, clean slate. |
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| By law once they've served their time they are then free, a clean slate in a sense. |
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| The mind was a tabula rasa, asserted the British writer John Locke, a clean slate awaiting the imprint of sensory data. |
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| To present ourselves to the universe in as pure a state as when we came in, and start again with a clean slate. |
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| On the other end of the spectrum, the captain of the Tampa has a completely clean slate. |
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| Riding a 10-match winning streak and a clean slate in 2013, it may finally be Tomic-time. |
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| Before they went out to field, Worrell told Griffith that he wanted him to leave Worcester with a clean slate and he did not care even if Griffith bowled off breaks. |
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| This topic would be treated as involving a clean slate, with no predetermined point of departure. |
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| Such a year created the opportunity to start the future with a clean slate. |
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| There is no clean slate to write on: rather, successful water management must begin by taking each society as history has made it. |
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| This proposal would enable the new Appeals Tribunal to start with a clean slate, focusing on its proper role as an appeals instance. |
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| The province maintains a clean slate for all forms of potato cyst nematode after 10 years of testing seed potato exports to Mexico. |
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| This enabled us to allow the new Country Manager to start with a completely clean slate. |
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| The joint project is to proceed as a clean slate, with no pre-determined point of departure. |
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| After that, all States could start with a clean slate. |
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| The NRC Aerospace research team therefore had to start from a clean slate and, with the winter season rapidly approaching, they began modifying the tunnel in September. |
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| But, besides these challenges, there are also unique opportunities, as countries starting from a clean slate may be able to avoid the mistakes made elsewhere. |
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| Even so we all understand that we're starting from a clean slate again. |
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| But we really need someone to be the chair, who we can make presentations to and talk to, who's going to be willing to listen and is coming to this with a clean slate. |
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| At least, ideally. For we cannot really make a clean slate of the past, and proven methods of governance are those to which we are naturally attached. |
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| Francis I likewise became king of France upon the death of Louis in 1515, leaving three relatively young rulers and an opportunity for a clean slate. |
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