Sentence examples for reduce for the first from inspiring English sources

In his speech on Thursday night, Mr. Obama asked Congress to cut the amount that workers must contribute toward Social Security benefits, extending an existing measure, and to reduce, for the first time, the matching payments that employers are required to make.

Last year the number of capital crimes was reduced for the first time since 1979.

"Their caseload is reduced for the first six months," Ms. Rosenstein said, "and then they get a regular caseload, which means however many they give you.

This algorithm stops the iterations when the true error is reduced for the first time below the desired error tolerance.

In a 3-2-1 buy down, the seller pays to have the interest rate reduced for the first three years of the loan, in effect making the buyer's loan an adjustable-rate mortgage except that the loan terms don't reset to above prime, as with the ARMs that caught so many borrowers unprepared and led to foreclosures.

In a buy-down, the seller pays to have the interest rate reduced for the first three years of the loan, in effect giving the buyer an adjustable-rate mortgage without the above-prime reset rates that led many unprepared buyers into foreclosure.

President Obama has promised that we will always be a Triple A nation -- despite just having had our credit rating reduced for the first time in our history.

By the application of disintegration strategies using M&N kit the extraction efficiency was also reduced for the first extraction.

If the gain of this bipolar cell were reduced for the first ganglion cell it would also retard the second cell's ability to respond to the same stimulus.

The protein thiols were largely reduced for the first 48 hr post log phase (i.e., day 0) under standard conditions or for the first 96 hr post log phase under caloric restriction conditions, and then became suddenly oxidized within a 24-hr period.

The Los Angeles payroll, reduced for the second consecutive season, dipped to $95 million on opening day, 12th highest in baseball.