Sentence examples for reduction or abolition from inspiring English sources

• Stockbrokers and private investors are hoping for a reduction, or abolition, in duty on share transactions.

"WHAT is he thinking?" In hushed huddles around Westminster, MPs, advisers and journalists are exchanging theories as to why George Osborne is even contemplating a reduction or abolition of the 50% top rate of income tax in Wednesday's budget.

Although a nutritionally desirable fatty acid profile was achieved, the transgenic seeds exhibit reduction or abolition of seed germination in addition to a decrease in seed lipid content.

Some national railway operators in Europe (e.g. SNCF) have again been considering the reduction or abolition of wagonload traffic activities as a cost saving measure.

The manifesto calls for a freeze in the BBC licence fee to be followed by either its significant reduction or abolition.

A significant reduction or abolition of the patient's pain constitutes a positive result of the impingement test[ 29].

The implication of cholinergic action in mediating SAI is supported by in vivo observations of its reduction or even abolition by administration of a selective muscarinic cholinergic receptor blocker (scopolamine) in healthy participants [ 23].

We also need to reflect on the potential consequences of severe reductions or total abolition of QR funding, which would starve entire research fields (particularly in the social sciences, arts and humanities) of the long-term investment they need, and hit early career researchers the hardest.

Several studies have demonstrated a significant reduction or even an abolition of migraine headache attacks (MHAs) after transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect (ASD) or patent foramen ovale (PFO) [1].

"We see the left initiating a politics, whether it's the French Revolution or abolition," he said.

That will leave them facing almost certain modification, merger or abolition by ministerial order.