They could almost reduce people to one-word character assessments".
We could limit or reduce people and wealth on floodplains, although this would be politically hard.
But this is how they are often used - not infrequently, in doses that reduce people to drooling vacancy.
If we are going to reduce people to profit, we can at least do the maths right.
To reduce people to very simplistic categories is to take away the very things that make them human.
Instead, it can reduce people like Anselmo to data points in a social and medical experiment – one that, at present, may rest as much on faith as science.
The people who worry about cultural appropriation reduce people to an ethnic category and argue that those outside can never understand it.
Government officials insisted that Serbia was not so poor as to reduce people to selling their body parts, while police officials noted that not a single case of organ trafficking in Serbia has been prosecuted in the past 10 years.
He considered becoming a psychoanalyst, but abandoned that career path after observing the tendency of analysts "to reduce people and events to small, mostly predictable categories of their thought system".
Our deepest emotions are not mere "adaptations", "hard wired" in the human cortex; if you reduce people to balls of cells, you wipe away intention, responsibility, freedom and emotion.
But Laila Ali, representing her father, Muhammad Ali, said the widespread use of belts in prisons across the US represented "a step backwards" for American civilisation and that they "reduce people to animals".
