Sentence examples for reduced to supporting from inspiring English sources

Though there were exceptions (witness the brilliant German stroke through the Ardennes in 1940), often tanks were of no use at all or else they were reduced to supporting the infantry, as happened in Italy and, later, Korea.

But if, as a result of a greater focus on Syria and the Middle East, more spending goes on places where the UK or its allies have present or past military involvement, the risk is that the role of large tranches of aid will be reduced to supporting UK military activities.

But if they continue along their current paths, they may be reduced to supporting roles.

Over the last decade, however, the endowment has been reduced to supporting mainstream institutions, making grants based more on political considerations than on artistic merit.

It's a movie about black men and white women (with white men and black women reduced to supporting roles), so that race and gender start seeming like almost the same thing: it's black masculinity versus white femininity.

Another Welsh athlete, sprinter Christian Malcolm, has seen his funding reduced to support his efforts as a relay competitor.

The persistent losers are social democratic parties, from the eclipse of Pasok in Greece and Spain's struggling socialists to Germany's once-mighty Social Democrats, reduced to a supporting act to Christian Democrat supremacy.

Now they are reduced to sighing and supporting.

The other leaders in attendance were inevitably reduced to the roles of supporting actors and, in some cases, mere extras.

A recent study has shown that the polarization of M1 and M2a macrophages is associated with a reduced capacity to support productive R5 HIV-1 infection [31].

In particular, a reduced ability to support and maintain hematopoiesis and a stem cell defect were observed.