Hasan Askari Rizvi, a Lahore-based political scientist, said the army's room to manoeuvre has been steadily reduced by the emergence of rival power centres over the past decade.
Since the cold war ended, spending has been steadily reduced for such worthwhile efforts to spread America's message abroad as foreign language radio broadcasts and the overseas libraries formerly run by the United States Information Agency.
But that sits rather oddly with another Budget change; reducing the lifetime cap on a pension pot from £1.25m to £1m (above that, pension income will be taxed at 55%).The cap has been steadily reduced from £1.8m in 2010.
The length of conscription in Germany has been steadily reduced over the past few years, with Chancellor Angela Merkel's government agreeing last month to cut it to six months, down from nine.
Facts shouldn't be allowed to get in the way of a good smear, such as, for example, that union influence within Labour has been steadily reduced every year since the 1990s (with Miliband lessening this even further) and that affiliated unions pay large sums to Labour but have little in the way of desired policy commitments to show for it.
Since the 1995 match between Mr. Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand of India, who is the current men's champion, the number of games has been steadily reduced — perhaps by a desire by the players to avoid grueling matches that can stretch for weeks, but also by the organizers, whose costs rise as the competitions continue.
Scott Segal, director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, a group representing the energy industry, said the industry had been steadily reducing emissions for 20 years.
