By reducing relations difficult to state and prove geometrically to algebraic relations between coordinates (usually rectangular) of points on curves, Descartes brought about the union of algebra and geometry that gave birth to the calculus.
In 1882 their "Linz program" proposed the restoration of German dominance in Austrian affairs by detaching Galicia, Bukovina, and Dalmatia from the monarchy, by reducing relations with Hungary to a purely personal union under the monarch, and by establishing a customs union and other close ties with the German Empire.
Saudi and UAE tactics as well as some of the demands that include halting support for militants and Islamists, closing a Turkish military base in the Gulf state, reducing relations with Iran, and shuttering Qatar-sponsored media, including the controversial Al Jazeera television network, could however prove to be a double-edged sword.
The Kaczynskis seem to distrust all foreigners except Americans, and have reduced relations with Germany to a level of icy puzzlement unknown in Poland's recent history.
"I reduced relations with my friends to a minimum, disconnected the telephone, canceled the trips and all sorts of current and future plans," the author told El Tiempo, the Colombian newspaper, in rare comments about an illness he usually declines to discuss.
Ajdukiewicz compared the language used by Berkeley to the language of syntax, because the former reduces relations of the mind to its objects to relations between thoughts.
Experiments to determine genotypic differences in soil water availability thresholds that control when transpiration is reduced, relations between transpiration and vapor pressure deficit (VPD), and patterns of soil water uptake are also described along with new insights from this work.
This event prompted García Márquez to begin writing his memoirs: "I reduced relations with my friends to a minimum, disconnected the telephone, canceled the trips and all sorts of current and future plans", he told El Tiempo, the Colombian newspaper, "...and locked myself in to write every day without interruption".
Ultimately, all these relations can be known quantitatively by specifying a number of magnitudes, thus reducing the relations of the objective spatio-temporal order to quantities.
If at the same time you join the chorus of those condemning Iran for doing what we have done, then you are reducing international relations to a cynical power game.
And China will be even more averse to imposing new U.N. sanctions on North Korea or reducing trade relations if South Korea is unable to produce convincing evidence that its ship, the 1,200-ton 1,200-tonsank in an attaCheonanhe North.
