Consider a healthcare professional who decides to prescribe a life-shortening amount of pain-killing medicine; a sanctity-of-life doctrine-supporting observer subscribing to the DDE would want to know whether the healthcare professional was intent on shortening the patient's life or whether he or she was intent on relieving the patient's suffering.
In short, if an actually infinite extension could exist and can be shortened by some finite amount (which is assumed as given), then the shortened amount must be either equal to or less than the original infinite extension; however, either case leads to contradiction.
By shortening the amount of time your cat is in the bag, you are also lessening the amount of trauma (and meowing).
But it breaks a cherished French pattern of progressively shortening the amount of time people spend at work.
The public advocate, Betsy Gotbaum, said that she supported shortening the amount of time before a special election is held, but objected to having succession pass to the first deputy mayor, who under Mr. Bloomberg is Marc V. Shaw.
The fact that the Fordo plant is approaching full operation, shortening the amount of time it would need to build a weapon, gives Iran added ability to exert pressure on the United States and its allies.
Therefore, he needed to make education much cheaper by shortening the amount of time students put into studying.
Shortening the amount of time plantations spend in closed canopy conditions would likely improve habitat conditions for small mammals existing in SMZs within intensively managed pine landscapes.
"Over the coming weeks and months, we'll be rolling out several changes to the actions we take when we detect spammy or suspicious activity, including introducing new and escalating enforcements for suspicious logins, Tweets, and engagements, and shortening the amount of time suspicious accounts remain visible on Twitter while pending confirmation.
By shortening the amount of time it takes before a candidate is hijacked by the Right, perhaps?
