There is no clean slate to write on: rather, successful water management must begin by taking each society as history has made it. |
On the other end of the spectrum, the captain of the Tampa has a completely clean slate. |
The province maintains a clean slate for all forms of potato cyst nematode after 10 years of testing seed potato exports to Mexico. |
The mind was a tabula rasa, asserted the British writer John Locke, a clean slate awaiting the imprint of sensory data. |
This enabled us to allow the new Country Manager to start with a completely clean slate. |
By law once they've served their time they are then free, a clean slate in a sense. |