The phrase "tendency to reduce" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe the inclination or predisposition of something or someone to decrease in size, quantity, or value. Example: "The government's tendency to reduce taxes has been met with criticism by some economists."
It in itself has a cultural tendency to reduce everything to neuroscience.
Are you still good?'" THERE IS AN unfortunate tendency to reduce Boyle to caricature: Susie Simple, as she was called at school.
In this deposition there is evident a tendency to reduce the setting of a scene to a shallow, shrinelike enclosure and to orchestrate a rich diversity of emotions.
Europe's aversion to conflict — and its tendency to reduce geopolitics to negotiations and regulatory disputes — has not prevented all 26 NATO members from taking part in some capacity in Afghanistan.
I speak about them - but not about my interpretations.' In fairness, Kieslowski cannot be accused of cultivating a gnomic air, but his tendency to reduce questions to commonsense basics only fuels the mystique.
Politicians, political pundits and, yes, even journalists, have a tendency to reduce Americans to a series of caricatures – liberal and conservative voters, urban and rural dwellers, the 99% and the 1%.
Michael Vincent Miller, writing in The New York Times Book Review, praised Dr. Kaplan for resisting the tendency to reduce literature to symptoms, noting that she respected "both the texture of the novel and Flaubert's complex attitude toward his character".
Gramsci resisted the tendency to reduce Marx's theory to economic terms, focusing instead on the way in which the "hegemony" of the ruling classes over schools, churches, the media, and other cultural institutions encouraged workers to acquiesce in their exploitation.
His style is characterized by a tendency to reduce Classical elements of design to their structural essentials, the substitution of linear for modeled ornamentation, frequent use of shallow domes and top lighting, and ingenious handling of interior space.
And, despite a tendency to reduce the complexities of Zionism to colonial terms, her book turned out to be less a dismissal of Israel's archeological claims than an investigation into what the political scientist Timothy Mitchell called "the interplay of scientific method, cultural imagination, and political power" that went into making them.
This has a tendency to reduce fluid transport phenomena.
