"lower reliance" is an expression used in written English.
You can use it when you are trying to reduce the dependence on something, or when something is less reliant on something else. For example: "The company has been able to achieve greater efficiency through lower reliance on manual labor."
Some recognize the trade-offs between the higher yields of conventional farming systems with the lower reliance on purchased inputs and supposedly higher resilience of diversified farming systems.
For example, at a Costco Home store, the area covered per employee is three times that at an Ethan Allen store, demonstrating lower reliance on salespeople; the retailer doesn't spend much on advertising; and since its low prices help move products off the floor quickly, its inventory turnover rate is twice the industry average.
Fiscal benefits include increased tax payments, lower reliance on government transfers and reduced expenditures on criminal justice.
For the GHI case, a daily prediction is possible because of the lower reliance on predicted cloud cover.
This is to be expected, given the generally lower reliance of these activities on primary production and rangeland carrying capacity.
Because it is made of a large number of smaller firms it has a lower reliance on government contracts.
On the other hand, in a number of states (especially in the South), renewable capacity is limited, not to mention regulatory interest, so natural gas could make a very positive contribution by lowering reliance on coal.
The transaction is the first in which Ford has sold loans outright and is part of efforts to lower its reliance on the corporate bond market.
Jones, 445 U.S., at 489, 100 S.Ct., at 1261 (approving lower courts' reliance on "objective expectation, firmly fixed in state law and official Penal Complex practice").
1965, 32 L.Ed.2d 492 (1961), that municipalities are not 'persons' for purposes of § 1983, despite almost two decades of lower courts' reliance upon Monroe, and notwithstanding our exceptional reluctance to overrule our prior constructions of federal statutes.
UYUNI, Bolivia — In the rush to build the next generation of hybrid or electric cars, a sobering fact confronts both automakers and governments seeking to lower their reliance on foreign oil: almost half of the world's lithium, the mineral needed to power the vehicles, is found here in Bolivia — a country that may not be willing to surrender it so easily.
