Sentence examples for tried to decrease the from inspiring English sources

The widows of firefighters threatened to take to the streets, literally, when he tried to decrease the number of firefighters at the site last year, and he attracted anger from other families over his handling of the Twin Towers Fund after he left office.

Alternatively, we tried to decrease the pyrolysis temperature.

In this study, we tried to decrease the hydrogen content in diamond-like carbon (DLC) grown by photoemission-assisted plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PA-PECVD) using Ar/CH4 mixed with CO2.

Whereas TO1 thus tried to decrease the traffic load that is to be sent over the wireless networks, TO2 will now forward all incoming traffic, but it will optimize the given load in order to consume less bandwidth.

In the present study we tried to decrease the levels of NO in our GTN headache model by administering pure oxygen in a dose, 7 l/min which has been shown to be effective in the treatment of cluster headache in a double-blind trial [8, 9] and in clinical practice [8, 10].

Those were policies under the Clinton Administration that tried to decrease the number of illegal crossings.

For their part, police officials say they are trying to decrease the acrimony.

Professor Rasheed said such changes were deliberate, with the resistance essentially giving Mr. Allawi the chance to prove that he is working in Iraqis' interests and will try to decrease the visibility of American soldiers.

Peter Caruso, owner of Caruso & Boughton Realty in Franklin Square, said that it was lenders who were driving the trend toward lower appraisals, and that they were "almost trying to decrease the prices below what the market is bearing," by using appraisal management companies that don't hire local appraisers.

Our brains act economically: they try to decrease the amount of information to be stored (e.g., by relating new thoughts to already known content) and avoid storing unnecessary information.

Red Cross officials counter that they have changed the program in response to criticism, including reducing the application form to eight pages, and are trying to decrease the processing time while protecting the Red Cross from the fraud and abuse that marred distribution of money immediately after the storm.