Sentence examples for the sharpest reductions from inspiring English sources

That ranks among the sharpest reductions in the country, in part because enrollment also boomed.

True, crime has been held admirably in check (though the sharpest reductions in murders, the category that draws the closest scrutiny, took place in the decade before 2002).

In New York, the city's chief actuary, Robert North, has proposed lowering the assumed rate of return for the city's five pension funds to 7 percent from 8 percent, which would be one of the sharpest reductions by a public pension fund in the United States.

As Gallup reported earlier this month, Arkansas leads "all other states in the sharpest reductions in their uninsured rate among adult residents since the healthcare law's requirement to have insurance took effect at the beginning of the year".

An analysis by the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation predicts the sharpest reductions -- cutting sentences by up to two-thirds -- for some of the most common crimes: residential burglary, assault and drug trafficking.

The sharpest reduction happened on Staten Island, where the mayor was heckled once during a parade after the price of a pack of cigarettes reached the $7 mark.

The sharpest reduction in spending has been in services that councils provide to schools (such as school improvement and education welfare).

Of all the technologies, electrified parking offers the sharpest reduction in nitrogen oxides, an ingredient in smog that causes asthma and other lung problems.

In fact, the sharpest reduction in new HIV infections around the world -- approximately two-thirds between 2009 and 2011 -- has been among newborns.

But Lawrence Mead, a professor of political science at New York University who has written extensively in support of the welfare overhaul, disagreed, calling the increase in poverty small compared with the sharp reductions in city welfare rolls.

With shale gas in plentiful supply in the US, the needs of energy security can now be met without the sharp reductions in emissions needed to avoid dangerous levels of global warming.