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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated or decaffeinated - have a reduction in Type 2 diabetes, or a reduced incidence of Type 2 diabetes, of about fifty percent. The same with Parkinson's, although there it is more related to the caffeine.

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Yoga reduced my stress and bodily tension. It allowed me to bring my body back into balance, to emerge from my fertility struggle with my sense of self esteem and self worth intact, and to forge a stronger bond with my husband.

Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor.

Lightened body armor, which the military has made progress on, would mean increased safety and reduced risk for soldiers like the sergeant and the colonel.

I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.

Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well.

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet.

It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one species every hour. That doesn't count the species whose populations are being reduced so greatly that diversity within the population is essentially gone.

If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country.

My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information.

Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.

It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.

I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.

Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.

The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

I feel like I've spent the majority of my time touring and traveling, so if I reduced the actual time making music, it's probably four and a half years at the most.

The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.

Tax reductions are usually simpler and less distortive. I'm certainly willing to look at getting rid of tax deductions/credits, and go to dramatically reduced rates.

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

The percentage is reduced each year, until after five years the fire department is able to continue on with paid staffing with it's own funding. At a time when volunteer fire departments across the nation are struggling to obtain new volunteers, this cut really hurts. It means fire departments will have to look to the public for even more support.

We started the process in October, had 12 candidates which we reduced to three, then two, and today was the day the decision was made.

We started the event with 12 teams but reduced it to a 10-team event following criticism there was too much disparity between the top 10 and the 11th and 12th teams.

Unusually warm weather significantly reduced the winter draw on (natural gas) inventories, leaving the continent very well supplied.

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

What's really happened is technology has basically favored capital markets over depository institutions because it has reduced the cost of making transactions.

Three years of reduced funding of public libraries have taken a toll. We agree that local municipal funding is our weakest area, but only state incentives can improve local support in a long-term, consistent manner.

Ultimately, if employees are given the choice to watch key matches it may result in reduced absenteeism and a more responsible approach to personal workloads.

'Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

We're seeing reduced price appreciation in the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska although population growth and job growth there remain strong.

We're seeing a reduced impact from the hurricanes and we're getting back to the underlying norm. We're looking for about an 80,000 increase in non-farm payrolls in October, and it's still picking up.

The reduced support for the government is surely a warning that the government must heed. And the warning is that you cannot break your promises,

The reduced profitability reflects our continued significant investments in geographic expansion, new product launches, Torstar Digital and TTN, all of which we expect will increase profits in future years.

The reduced level of activity at the Jackson center means we're moving forward in the recovery process.

The reduced forecast for the handset market is a surprise at this stage of the year...they are pulling back their own sales growth, and I would have thought they wouldn't need to do that until later in the year.

There are some races where we will introduce more than one candidate. In these races, we believe each candidate deserves a chance to present themselves to the voters in their district. Each race against an incumbent, however, will eventually need to be reduced to one strong candidate before the primary.

We're playing pretty well right now. We have a quality team, and when we play a tournament like we did today with reduced numbers - two singles matches and three doubles matches - we're pretty competitive.

We did pretty well. I think the fact that we reduced the number of students retained while our population increased is significant.

We have pushed out the timing of the monetary policy easing to June and reduced the cumulative amount through 2006 to 75 basis points.

We've seen the enemy, and he is us. We have to get back to the basics. Let's talk about small government and reduced spending, and don't let the Democrats take those issues.

We have reduced our inventory capacity approximately 20%, and thus we have to continue to focus on increasing our yield per minute. We are building a new 30-second marketplace, which continues to move forward, albeit more slowly than we would hope. We are also hoping for a more robust radio and advertising environment that has not materialized yet.

The extent to which urban runoff can be reduced or contained, problems associated with Argentine ants should diminish. Whenever I'm out in the field and someone asks what I'm doing and I tell them I study Argentine ants, the first thing they want to know is, How do I get rid of the ants from my home?

We have so many huge problems, and it is frustrating to somebody like myself when we are reduced to partisan fire with bazookas,

The product being internationally competitive it is able to service a large market with availability in time and state of the art performance at reduced costs per unit.

We're gratified to have been selected by a leading company like CITGO. CITGO is leading the way to reduced emissions in Texas, and we're pleased to partner with them.

There are very obvious features we've observed that indicate in the last 20 years the climate has been changing. Just looking at the changes in the glaciers in 20 years, the glaciers on the coastlines have been reduced in volumes.

Legally all member states that apply reduced rates, they have to come back to the minimum standard VAT rate in the European Union, which is 15 percent.

Sears Canada is selling a prime asset that historically has contributed significant earnings and has reduced the volatility of consolidated earnings.

Some museum boards think that choosing an architect can be reduced to a science, but it comes down to a matter of taste, pure and simple. A shortlist of prospective designers speaks volumes about the likely outcome. If the candidates' styles are too divergent, the search committee doesn't know what it wants.

shows symptoms of suffering the same spiral of delays, reduced capabilities and cost overruns that plagues major weapons programs at the Pentagon.

should not have rounded this number off to below $10 million, which reduced the length of the defendants' sentences.

Since Charles Schwab has taken the helm, the firm has consistently reduced their commission rates and their account fees. They've been taking their medicine in consistent and regular doses.

Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices.

Motorists might seen prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause. Upward pressure on gas prices will increase in February due to reduced production as refineries rush to finish the changeover from producing winter grade to summer grade fuel before the March 1 deadline.

Motorists are reminded to pay special attention to reduced speed limits in school zones and school crossings.

Medicare beneficiaries would never accept a drug benefit with sharply reduced drug choices and very limited access to pharmacies.

No county has a 2005 deviation greater than its 1988 deviation, a year that was the worst for many counties. However, deviations for some counties in 2005 are large and in the 'second tier' of yield loses. While genetic improvements may have reduced yield losses, large negative yield deviations are still possible.

One of the things that's becoming very consistent when you look at the literature is that it is costing employers quite a bit in terms of absenteeism, higher health and medical expenses and reduced productivity when their workers are inactive or overweight.

Of course I'm for Turkey joining the EU. But it's too simple to say that will make us all well-off and solve all our problems. Since the referendums in France and the Netherlands, Europe is preoccupied with itself. Various ideas are competing with one another about the character of the Union. Will Europe define itself exclusively through the past ? This is a conservative view and can ultimately be reduced to discussions on agricultural policy and the distribution of funds. This is always the case with short-term politics. But in the long term Europe needs an all-encompassing vision of itself and for that reason I recommend that Turkey joins.

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.

Maybe he's suffering from a case of jet lag. Is he suggesting that we be reduced to truant officers? It seems to me to be a plan obsessed with power and control.

Obviously it's easier to undertake redevelopment on a site that has some reduced level of programming and patient care provided,

Politicians' remarks opposing a policy shift have reduced expectations of an early end to the deflation-fighting policy and raised concern over the independence of the central bank. It also harms the government's credibility; It's yen negative.

ONO-8713 significantly reduced brain damage in our mouse models following activation of a nervous-system response known to cause brain damage in humans during stroke.

One of the real things that impressed me the most about Dr. Flores is that he's at a ninety-three percent free and reduced lunch school. So that tells you that people aren't very wealthy in that area. Yet, ninety percent of all the students went to college. Tells me a lot about him. I'm thoroughly impressed with him, and I think he's going to do us a great job.

I was pleased with the effort and the execution improved from the previous scrimmage. The penalties were drastically reduced and the mental mistakes were reduced.

If we're reduced to being tacticians, we'll never be able to build brands. We need to get to a higher point, like with the CEO. But it's tough to find heroes willing to say 'I believe in long-term brands' and stay the course.

But the economy and family responsibilities have reduced our volunteer ranks to the point that we must expand our career staff.

Business managers and drivers alike will appreciate the easy entry and egress and roomy cab of the Sterling 360. While the drivers will benefit from a more comfortable and convenient work environment, managers will value the increased productivity and retention from reduced driver fatigue.

Because of the reduced U.N. presence on the border, any incident could be interpreted as a provocation.

Because of the reduced hunting pressure, a positive experience is assured. However, would-be hunters still need to complete a hunter education course. That way, there will always be safe, skilled and ethical hunters in Vermont's woods.

Because of the many problems hogs create, we want to see the sportsmen in Alabama take as many hogs as they possibly can, whenever they can. I know we have some hunters who really enjoy hunting hogs and who have some well-trained dogs that can find, chase, bay, catch and hold hogs. But we really want to see the number of hogs statewide reduced drastically because they do so much destruction to the habitat.

Because of the hurricane disaster, we reduced our rate by 25 percent.

Because we are using Master Well Owner volunteers trained through Cooperative Extension, we can do this research project for a greatly reduced cost. There has been much debate about the cause of high contamination rates among private water systems in the state.

Because of the way this form used to work, it calculated the tax as if you had received the money over a five-year period. You would divide it into five equal parts and pay taxes on each of those parts which significantly reduced your tax bill.

I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.

From a management standpoint and a cost-reduction standpoint ... you can now with a single console, with reduced costs, manage all these point products with just one resource and one just one technology.