And he followed up by joining with regional leaders in late 2011 in the "Tuxtla Declaration," which stated that if the demand for illegal drugs could not be reduced, "authorities in the consuming countries ought then to explore possible alternatives to eliminate the exorbitant profits of the criminals, including regulatory or market oriented options to this end.
In an interview, Jason Manafort, the company's president, said that the initial transfer of the trucks was requested by the trash authority solely to reduce the authority's potential liability.
Most Republicans in Congress and many Democrats want to reduce the authority of the agency that now runs Medicare, the Health Care Financing Administration.
In what Mr. Dyson described as a "whirlwind negotiation" last week, he and authority staff members demanded that the developers reduce the authority's potential liability and the price at which it could buy the cable.
Nearly all Republicans opposed creation of the bureau and have pushed to reduce its authority over financial firms.
e. reduce the authority of the colonial legislatures.
The interviews and correspondence from January show that the Police Department has sought to reduce the authority of the Office of Emergency Management.
For the first time one of their number had consented to reduce his authority, rather than extend it.
Since the Palestinian Authority was established a decade ago, Mr. Arafat has always maintained ultimate control over the security forces, but he is facing pressure to reduce his authority.
Government by such means would reduce the authority of the cabinet and it would increase informal, unaccountable decision-making between a small clique of ministers and their advisers.
President Boris N. Yeltsin, increasingly isolated and under pressure to resign, remained secluded Thursday at his rural estate as the Russian stock market plunged to a record low and government negotiators hammered out a power-sharing agreement designed to reduce his authority.
