Sentence examples for reducing the claim from inspiring English sources

We are always reducing the claim or raising the proof.

As the law professor and magician Christopher Hanna has noted, two of the best ways of making a too perfect trick work are "reducing the claim" and "raising the proof".

The company then claimed £200,000 in damages, a level that ensured the case would be heard in the high court, before reducing the claim to £50,000 and then withdrawing it on Monday.

Reducing the claim means roughing up the illusion so that the spectator isn't even sure she saw one — bringing the cigarette in and out of the coin so quickly that the viewer doesn't know if the trick is in the coin or in her eyes.

The decline in the amount of gold would produce in turn a reduction in the total amount of money, because banks and government institutions, seeing their gold reserves decline, would want to protect themselves against further demands by reducing the claims against gold that were outstanding.

Royal Mail also wants to end compensation for loss or damage for business customers using "untracked" services, and to reduce the claim time-limit from 12 to two months.

PAGE C1 A FIGHT OVER ROYALTIES When Craig Lucas moved the Off Broadway premiere of his play "A Prayer for My Enemy" from the Roundabout Theater Company to Playwrights Horizons, he reduced the claim on his future author royalties to 10percentt, from 40percentt.

He goes on to argue that various fallback positions assent when they understand, assent when they begin to reason, capacity to assent under appropriate conditions all reduce the claim to a sort of triviality.

He did not notice, however, that this definition again seemed to open him to an open-question argument, since it reduced the claim that it is good to contemplate beauty to the near-tautology that it is good to contemplate what it is good to contemplate.

The purpose of designing business processes by any private insurer will be to reduce the claim payments to hospitals but not necessarily to improve patient health outcomes.

It is unlikely that the crisis is making anyone besides a few bureaucrats in Brussels feel any great enthusiasm for an expansion of federal power at the expense of national governments.The second way to reduce the claims held by the North against the South is to restructure them, either voluntarily or by going into default.