The phrase "aimed at shrinking the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing goals or objectives related to reducing something, such as costs, waste, or a specific issue.
Example: "The new policy is aimed at shrinking the budget deficit over the next fiscal year."
Alternatives: "intended to reduce the" or "focused on decreasing the".
Punch Taverns will urge shareholders to accept a rescue plan aimed at shrinking the troubled pub company's huge debt mountain to avoid almost-certain default.
Like Camp David, these tradeoffs were aimed at shrinking the number of hard-liners who would oppose a deal, so the inevitable civil wars within the I.R.A. and unionist camps, with the last rejectionists, could be as small as possible.
Founded after Hurricane Katrina, SBP, a national nonprofit aimed at shrinking the time between disaster and recovery, has teams ready to help in the Carolinas as soon as flooding recedes.
President Trump last year imposed tariffs on Chinese industrial and consumer goods as leverage in talks aimed at shrinking the U.S. trade deficit and forcing China to abandon discriminatory trading practices.
She criticises the bank's behaviour and the salacious fashion in which the Dutch media has treated the news, with lurid descriptions of the services Ms van der Waal offered.For the past several years, Amsterdam has been pushing through a re-zoning effort aimed at shrinking the Red Light District.
Academic lobbyists have vociferously complained about sequestration, created under a 2011 law aimed at shrinking the federal deficit over the next decade.
Defense contractors support the funding increase because it is aimed at shrinking $400 billion in unaudited contractor bills, said Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president of the Arlington-based Prepresentsl Services Council, which represents about 330 vendors.
Beginning in the early 1990s, however, Spain's science budget stagnated, the victim of a general belt-tightening aimed at shrinking Spain's budget deficit.
Lawmakers and advocates have been pushing for changes, part of a broader effort aimed at shrinking prison and jail costs and reversing racially biased sentencing practices.
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company is starting a new round of restructuring, including layoffs, aimed at shrinking corporate bureaucracy and making its business units more autonomous, its chief executive, Charles O. Holliday, said today.
The terms negotiated with Canada and Mexico stipulate that at least 75percentt of an automobile's value must be produced in North America for a company to import it into the United States duty-free, and that 40 to 45percentt of a vehicle's value must consist of parts made by workers earning at least $16 an hour, a provision aimed at shrinking Mexico's wage advantage.
