Meeting the standards eliminated, or at least reduced, the chances of lawsuits for equipment failure.
These problems must be resolved, or at least reduced, before Russia begins restructuring, critics said.
Gone, or at least reduced in serious number, were the heavy store suits in double-faced fabrics.
The goal of health care reform is to bring about lower costs — or at least reduced inflation — and improved quality.
As the general election campaign begins, Republicans seem satisfied they have at least reduced the odds of a disaster.
The F.A.A. and the airlines have made some changes that, if not always significantly cutting the number of delays, have at least reduced their duration.
If Republicans are in political control there is a good chance that the capital gains tax will be eliminated, or at least reduced, and that tax cuts will be expanded to include breaks for businesses.
But the huge gulf that used to exist between generations, in which one had absolutely no understanding of the other, seems to have disappeared or at least reduced dramatically.
The final result will be a CAT scan of those powerful Washington interests he campaigned against, revealing which have been removed from the body politic (or at least reduced) and which continue to metastasize.
Thailand's implicit approval was what undermined their claim to the temple back in 1962.While the ICJ's first ruling effectively legitimised the French wiggle, this week's ruling at least reduced its size.
How can you not warm to a book that contains observations such as the following: "Some people live to be 70, sometimes 80 years old believing that there is always something new just around the corner, as they say; in the end they practically have to be killed or at least reduced to a state of serious incapacity to get them to see reason".
