6 sentences with 'reduction'
Example sentences and phrases with the word reduction and other words derived from it.
• « The welfare state was paid for by progressive taxation schemes and a very large reduction in military spending; one of the benefits of Western Europe's alliance with the United States, and Europe's commitment to the United Nations, was that it was politically feasible to greatly reduce the size of each country's military, on the understanding that it was the United States that would lead the way in keeping the threat of Soviet invasion in check. »
• « "Strengthening the stomach muscles doesn't help, because the cause of a bulging belly is excess fat, not weak stomach muscles," reports Ballor. "There is no such thing as localised reduction. Exercising a muscle has no direct effect on the fat around it." »
• « Losing half a kilo a week, a goal proposed by many experts, means a daily reduction of only 550 calories. To achieve this, all you have to do is eat fewer fattening foods and move around a little more. »
• « Today, thanks to the joint efforts of NASA and the US Air Force and the great cost reduction made possible by the nascent technology (from a tenth to a hundredth of the cost of a space taxi), the NASH (National Aerospace Plane) project was created to build and fly an experimental hypersonic aircraft called X-30 to transform the old idea of the air lung into a reality. »
• « In April 1783, the Confederate Congress modified the previous requisition system by making slaves count as three-fifths of the white population. Slave owners thus received a significant tax reduction. The Philadelphia delegates adopted this same three-fifths formula in the summer of 1787. »