Sentence examples similar to reduced briefly from inspiring English sources

It undergirds modern life, and while demand can be marginally reduced by briefly closing factories, turning off air conditioning and elevators in office buildings, even those slight reductions cause significant disruption.

Rahm was briefly reduced to tears when hugged by McIlroy.

Nadiya Hussain had just won The Great British Bake Off in such a blaze of heartwarming positivity that even Mary Berry was briefly reduced to tears.

A few scuffled with police officers at the disaster site after City Hall briefly reduced the number of firefighters assigned to recovering bodies at the scene.

Attempting to get a rock'n'roll career off the ground in the unlikely environs of Gibraltar, where he was born in 1944, he was briefly reduced to begging.

At the other end Phil Hughes was briefly reduced to blocking out Swann so his 19-year old partner could score freely against the quicks.

But then they were briefly reduced to 11 men when Ellis joined Jeffries on the touchline for consecutive offences at play-the-ball, and Richard Swain ran through for an equalising try.

Had Wasps lost, though, the fall-out would have been nuclear, as some of the referee Nigel Williams' decisions when Munster were briefly reduced to 13 men would have tested anybody's patience.

As his movie career dwindled in the early 50's, he was briefly reduced to serving (at age 42) as the baggy-pants M.C. to a cheesy, showgirl-laden revue at the Last Frontier casino on the Vegas strip.

Back in November, there was a run on PlayBooks when the price was briefly reduced to $199.

Short's second and Paul Hodgson rounded off an ill-tempered first half that saw both sides briefly reduced to 13 men.