Sentence examples for by reducing the proportion from inspiring English sources

Rightists have claimed that Israel could eventually escape European penalties by reducing the proportion of trade there.

"In this way, we could have a significant positive impact by reducing the proportion of children presenting with problems at entry to school," he says.

Paul Hollingsworth, UK economist at consultancy Capital Economics, said: "As a result of the fall in disposable income, households were only able to fund the rise in spending by reducing the proportion of their income that they save.

Analysts said the company showed cost restraint by reducing the proportion of its revenue it set aside for salaries — despite having to pay a $361 million charge for a British bank tax on bonuses.

For instance, a better natural biocontrol could be achieved by reducing the proportion of soybean, increasing crop richness and conserving woodlands.

In sum, we find that military conscription seems to have a substantial societal cost by reducing the proportion of young males that obtain a university degree in the Netherlands.

The firm attempted to maintain its profitability by marginally reducing the proportion of revenue set aside to pay staff to 36.8% from 36.9%.

In addition to reducing the probability of further fisheries-induced change, such practices would be consistent with the traditional fisheries management goal of preventing recruitment overfishing by reducing the high proportion of immature R. argentea in commercial catches (Wanink 1999; Taabu 2004; Tumwebaze et al. 2007).

Under the plan, Dartmouth's 18-member board is to be expanded by eight trustees chosen by the board, thereby reducing the proportion of trustees elected by the alumni to one-third, from one-half (not counting New Hampshire's governor and Dartmouth's president, who serve ex officio).

Overall, 26.9% of the population was reclassified to higher eGFR categories and 2.2% to lower eGFR categories by eGFRCKD-EPI, reducing the proportion of prevalent CKD classified as stage 3 5 from 45.6% to 28.8%.

In contrast, therapeutic zinc supplementation during acute diarrhea has been reported to have a clear benefit in reducing the incidence of persistent diarrhea by ~25% and in reducing the proportion of children with persistent diarrhea > 3 days by ~30%[ 74].