A growing body of evidence suggests that high blood pressure may impair children's cognitive skills, reducing their ability to remember, pay attention and organize facts.
The move follows research that found consumers are confused when more than one scheme is used, reducing their ability and inclination to use the information.
It's undemocratic, binding the next secretary of state, whoever they may be, to this policy and reducing their ability to choose an alternative route to reform.
In says: "If we left the single market insurance firms would be likely to be badly hit, reducing their ability to keep premiums low".
He writes that taxation of upper-income households is reducing their ability to invest in new ideas and new machines and new buildings.
Keyhole surgery reduces complications for patients but takes away the surgeon's ability to feel the tissue they are cutting out, reducing their ability to accurately tell benign from malignant tissue.
Researchers in the Netherlands have linked neonicotinoids found in surface water to declines in insectivorous birds and there is widespread scientific evidence that neonicotinoids harm bees – reducing their ability to pollinate plants, for instance.
The new rules could reduce the profits of payday lenders, forcing all to pay for credit and affordability checks and reducing their ability to extract money from struggling borrowers.
The ankles are provided little mobility, reducing their ability to act as shock absorbers and transferring the impact of landing along to the tibia, knee, femur, hip and lower back.
One goal, officials say, is to keep drug lords separate from petty criminals as well as the many people who have been imprisoned but never convicted, thus reducing their ability to recruit new employees.
THE drumbeat of investigations, lawsuits and settlements in the widening scandal over the fixing of benchmark interest rates such as LIBOR has been so steady as to be almost soporific, reducing their ability to shock.
