This means monthly outgoings are reduced rather than increased.
The subsidy component of the budget has been reduced rather than increased.
Most Americans claim early benefits, which are slightly reduced, rather than waiting until age 66 for full benefits.
Many analysts say that Europe is not seeking a battle with Russia and that the Georgian conflict has reduced, rather than enhanced, Ukraine's chances of joining the alliance.
For the first time, said his finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, Greece had found a formula where its €350bn debt mountain was "reduced rather than augmented".
Moat (East) 8-19-06," Mr. whoson, who led things off, walked and sometimes danced with two others in a particularly wide portion of the moat, a vista that reduced rather than augmented the impact.
Offsetting has its critics, who say that emissions must be reduced rather than offset, and that some companies have adopted the practice to make a show of their green credentials.
The UK adopted a culture of inequality, in which the rich are referred to in financial publications as "talent" or "wealth creators" but the rest of us are "labour costs" to be reduced rather than invested in.
Waste can be reduced rather than burned or dumped in holes in the ground, or at sea, or in foreign countries (what a crime!) But waste can be (and should be) challenged at the retail end.
Older classification systems held this family to be the most primitive of dicotyledonous plants, but the flowers and other primitive-appearing characteristics are now considered to be reduced rather than primitive.
So time for parents' evenings and other out-of-school-hours work is often being reduced rather than expanded.What seems to be happening in some areas is that sharp local union officials are out-manoeuvring head teachers and local education officials.
