Sentence examples for secure a reduction from inspiring English sources

He may secure a reduction in the number of frozen chapters.

Independent reader David Thatcher got in touch recently to report a similar experience: "Each year I question the quote [his broker] offers and typically secure a reduction.

Last week, Ireland failed to secure a reduction in the interest it is paying on its 85 billion euro bailout from the union because it refused to promise to work constructively on tax coordination.

He added: "Yesterday I wrote to Harriet Harman to urge her to use her position as acting leader in association with the party's national officers to secure a reduction of the qualifying threshold for candidates to be allowed onto the ballot paper.

One of the alleged features of such target format is to secure a reduction in emissions' intensity in order to decouple greenhouse gases generation from economic activity.

At best he might secure a reduction in his suspension, but that would cost the Commissioner in his effort to demonstrate that he is fully in charge.

"The priority for the UK has been to protect the PM's long-term EU budget deal, which is forcing restraint and which secured a reduction in the total EU budget over the current seven year period," the diplomat said.

Today's hearing followed 165 complaints about the length of his original sentence after Hall secured a reduction of five months by pleading guilty to kissing and touching the girls in May.

The Greek government has secured a reduction of one percentage point in the interest rate charged on €80 billion of bilateral loans from euro-area countries arranged before the EFSF was set up.

Although the Uruguay Round has been sharply criticized for failing to secure a significant reduction in support and protection to agriculture, it has been credited with establishing a framework for the progressive reduction of trade-distorting protection of the agriculture sector.

But any modest improvement in the profile of deficit reduction over the coming five years won't change the fundamental story, of the Tories being wedded to significantly deeper spending cuts than Labour, to secure a faster reduction in national debt as a share of GDP.