Sentence examples for reduced ourselves from inspiring English sources

As Sir Pierson Dixon, Britain's ambassador to the United Nations, put it: 'We had by our action reduced ourselves from a first-class to a third-class power.

"I think in our society we've sort of reduced ourselves to an equation where net worth equals self-worth". The heroes of his generation, he said, were not the Rev. Martin Luther Kings.

In short, we have reduced ourselves to a largely silent, passive populace, content to watch and not do.

" 'Why would we reduce ourselves to this?' " IV.

"We reduce ourselves to furniture in this profession.

But I don't think we should reduce ourselves to the insurgents' barbaric levels".

We can reduce ourselves to a rabble of opposition, standing on the sidelines shouting our disapproval at each other and the world.

By Proposition 17 we may reduce ourselves to the case where G contains no translations.

But let's actually have a debate, and not reduce ourselves to silly puns like "Julius Seizure".

By replacing (Lambda ) by a sufficiently dense lattice (Lambda _0), containing (Lambda ) and letting (c kappa )=0) when (kappa in Lambda _0setminus Lambda ), we reduce ourselves to a situation where the hypothesis in Proposition 1.6 is fulfilled.

Should we reduce ourselves to the level of marginal utility in the course of assisting the distant needy, as the theory would dictate, or can we spend large amounts of our income to support our ailing parents in decent nursing homes, as common morality would grant?