6 sentences with 'reducing'

Example sentences and phrases with the word reducing and other words derived from it.

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« However, Rome continued to fight the Seleucids for several more years, eventually reducing the Seleucid king Antiochus III to a puppet of Rome. »
« During the Cold War, the Middle East was constantly implicated in US policies aimed at reducing the (often imagined) threat of Soviet expansion. »
« According to this theory, disease was the result of an overabundance of one humour and a lack of another, hence the centuries-old practice of bleeding someone who was ill in the hope of reducing the "excess" blood. »
« An antioxidant nutrient is a nutrient with strong reducing power that prevents rapid oxidative breakdown of vitamins or other nutrients, both in the human body and in food. These include vitamins C and E, selenium and beta-carotene. »
« Several hospitals are now experimenting with a treatment that involves cooling the injured person with ice water. The aim is to lower the body temperature to the point of reducing the metabolic rate, which slows down the chain of chemical reactions that follow a stroke and cause the death of neurons in a region of the brain. »
« The most important of these was Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619 - 1683), who doubled royal revenues by reducing the tax collectors' cut (only a quarter of revenues reached the royal coffers; in some cases he achieved as much as 80%), increasing tariffs on foreign trade going to France, and greatly increasing France's commercial interests abroad. »

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