One can imagine that it was easier to get acceptance among the existing regional managers for a model that simply added a reporting line, compared to the alternative (i.e., the model introduced in 2015), which might have been interpreted as a "loss" of key resources and/or a reduced scope of responsibility for the regional managers.
The continued prominence of Mr. Jiang may partly account for the relatively tight political environment, including a captive press and reduced scope for debating policy issues, political analysts say.
But the McMiramaxing (to quote Peter Biskind) of the foreign-language market arguably narrowed tastes and reduced scope for discoveries.
On Debenhams it said higher promotional spending would hurt first quarter like-for-like sales, and gross margin, and cut its 2014 to 2016 pretax profit forecasts by 10%to6%6%, saying there was reduced scope for buybacks.
I'm also quite surprised to see how some reputed Japanese companies are paying less attention to the measurement issue and thus reducing scope for their performance improvement.
However, when effectively recommending single ostensibly 'best' technologies or strategies, TA practices can serve unjustifiably to 'close down' debate, failing adequately to address technical uncertainties and social ambiguities, reducing scope for democratic accountability and co-ordination across scales and contexts.
One had a very practical emphasis, using checklists that helped to explain the organisation's expectations and to reduce scope for misunderstandings [ 13].
Happily, the committee makes good that omission by recommending that "the government should examine the scope for requiring a reduced maximum speed for the trains until electricity generation has been sufficiently decarbonised".
Using a twelve month period reduced the scope for seasonal effects.
Far greater automatic control of flying has also greatly reduced the scope for pilot error, a frequent source of accidents in the past.
This reduced the scope for electoral fraud and led to a smooth transfer of power, as the outgoing president quickly conceded defeat.The social consequences of the spread of surveillance technology remain unclear.
