Sentence examples for lowering of the level from inspiring English sources

Commutation, in law, shortening of a term of punishment or lowering of the level of punishment.

After 2 1/2 years of fruitless talks in Paris, a cease-fire or at least a lowering of the level of hostilities-has finally become a possibility in Vietnam, and perhaps in Laos & Cambodia, too.

The proposal, defeated 52 to 48, was introduced by Senator Gordon H. Smith, Republican of Oregon, and would have authorized a lowering of the level of the Upper Klamath Lake, on which both the farmers and the endangered suckerfish depend.

I am reminded that when a major trauma occurs, the kind that is both individual and collective, something happens that Jungian psychology calls an "abaissement du niveau mental" — a lowering of the level of consciousness.

Continuous lowering of the level of groundwater circulation often produces tiers of passages stacked one on top of the other, and these need not be interconnected by an explorable cave.

In the Budget, George Osborne announced big cuts to benefits including a freeze on tax credits for four years and a lowering of the level at which they are reduced.

This process may be attributed to the lowering of the base level (the Fenwei graben).

There's been no lowering of the very high levels of alert.

"The lending activity of Russian banks is still at a low level, and domestic demand remains insufficient to assure stable growth in output, which determined the necessity of lowering the level of interest rates," the central bank said.

Fenofibrate exerts the effect of lowering the levels of serum lipids over the activation of PPAR-α.

Antisense technology is emerging as an effective means of lowering the levels of specific gene products.