Sentence examples for reduced to a secondary from inspiring English sources

In the end, the direct-reading magnetic compass was reduced to a secondary role, its place being taken for most purposes by the gyromagnetic compass (see below).

By the Treaty of Nystad (September 10 [August 30, O.S.], 1721) the eastern shores of the Baltic were at last ceded to Russia, Sweden was reduced to a secondary power, and the way was opened for Russian domination over Poland.

Fearing a negative reaction from fans, Zero was ultimately reduced to a role secondary to Mega Man X.

In this process, cell division ceases, and the dermal papilla is released from the epidermal matrix, which becomes reduced to a small, inactive, secondary germ.

With Europe reduced to a collection of secondary powers after World War II, and the shift in trade patterns, the North Atlantic was no longer the single key to anything.

Although the plastid of the kareniaceae is reduced to a similar extent as most secondary plastids (Tengs et al. 2000), the dinotom endosymbiont is not: In addition to the plastid itself, it has retained a number of features usually lost in secondary or tertiary endosymbionts.

She was reduced to secondary duties after 1931, and remained in service as a barracks ship into the 1950s; Amazone was ultimately broken up for scrap in 1954.

They continued to serve with the fleet until the early 1930s, when they were reduced to secondary roles.

They were reduced to secondary roles then, and continued to serve until the early 1920s, when they were sold for scrap.

This difference in patterning clearly suggests that a default subject reference bias for pronouns present in Chinese may be reduced to some extent by a secondary bias toward referencing a Goal argument when present.

But among the spirits sold as gin today, some have reduced juniper to a secondary component while others seem to have dispensed with it altogether.