Sentence examples for reduction took from inspiring English sources

Debt reduction took place in two stages.

But weak growth meant deficit reduction took longer than expected.

The reduction took the Fed's key rate down to 1.5%.

He said the reduction took into account the actual purchase price of the Milstein apartment.

The importance of disaster risk reduction took on a particularly poignant relevance in Sendai, where the president of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, spoke on Monday of the devastation caused by cyclone Pam, which ripped through the Pacific island nation of mainly subsistence farmers at the weekend.

Since the first takeout reduction took effect at the opening of the 2001 Saratoga meet, an additional $72 million will have been pumped back into the pockets of horseplayers nationwide that wager on N.Y.R.A. races by the time Saratoga opens on July 23.

A similar reduction takes place in hagfish prior to ovulation.

The reduction takes effect Nov. 19, and the contractors were notified last month, a spokeswoman said.

This resulted in a real-terms reduction, taking inflation into account, of nearly 10%.

President Obama should not be duped into thinking that deficit reduction takes precedence over job creation.

Guido Westerwelle, who is both the FDP's chairman and the foreign minister, now says that deficit reduction takes precedence.