Sentence examples for purposes is to reduce from inspiring English sources

The memo explicitly states that one of its purposes is "to reduce the number of reports to police".

In tournaments and at bridge clubs, identical hands are played at all tables, and each pair's or team's score is based on how well it does relative to others playing the same cards — a form of the game known as duplicate, one of whose purposes is to reduce the role of luck.

Packaging's primary purpose is to reduce product waste, and in doing so to avoid over-production.

Its purpose is to reduce California's reliance on the Colorado River to its allotment, 4.4 million acre-feet.

So, if the purpose is to reduce benefits for upper-income recipients, that's already being done.

Arbitration's purpose is to "reduce costs, speed up cases and reduce the backlog of cases," he said, but "statistics show those goals not accomplished".

All these look like activities whose primary purpose is to reduce costs for the insurer with quality at best a secondary issue.

Therefore the Quartet's immediate purpose is to reduce tension by seizing the opportunity offered by a power shift away from President Yasir Arafat toward the Palestinian Authority's new, relatively moderate prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas.

Mr. Murkowski's stated purpose is to reduce the nation's use of foreign oil from 56percentto50percentcent, partly through tax breaks for the oil and gas companies but mainly by opening up more tracts of land for exploration.

Cox works for an agency called HealthConnect, whose purpose is to reduce admissions to the Central Mississippi Medical Center, a Jackson hospital where people routinely use the emergency room for primary care, sometimes multiple times in a month.

The purpose is to reduce the vibrations.