Sentence examples for reducing the standard from inspiring English sources

But a lot of pro-sustainability efforts are still possible in America without reducing the standard of living.

He did this by reducing the standard alcohol content in some drinks ("the ethanol level," he said), eschewing refined sugars and other naughty bits, and loading them with an array of fresh fruit and vegetable juices.

Reducing the standard deviation from input factors through the use of adequate controlling measures led to a decrease of almost 50% in the tolerance intervals.

There's no secret to creating lots of jobs by reducing the median wage, slashing benefits, compromising health and safety at the workplace, and, effectively, reducing the standard of living of millions of Americans.

"What you've done is, you've ended up reducing the standard," said Stuart Rennert, a lawyer with the firm of Day Pitney who is representing some states, cities and municipal water districts in the lawsuit.

This allows the peak-over-threshold observations to be represented by a left-censored probability distribution, eliminating mean bias and greatly reducing the standard error in the V50 estimates.

Is reducing the standards enough? c.

Those states have seen no public support for relaxing protections on air and water, or on reducing the standards for solid and toxic waste management.

Denis Healey, the former Labour chancellor, reduced the standard rate to 8% in 1974.

It also wants to raise income tax and reduce the standard working week to 35 hours.

Such a theory would reduce the standard model, too, to an engineer's approximation.