This legislation has provided springs to reduce the jolt of the change from a higher to a lower level of prices.
The prime purpose of making money legal tender is to reduce the danger of dispute as to payments; but another purpose often has been to force people to use a depreciated money whether they would or not.
The economic result of the plan, if it can be made to work, should be to reduce the costs of these establishments below what they are.
After sending Benalcazar to reduce the city of Quito, Pizarro himself undertook to reduce the royal residence of Cusco, in about 13° 20' S.
On leaving Mozambique, De Gama sailed for Quiloa, having orders to reduce the king of that place to become tributary, as a punishment for his unfriendly conduct towards Cabral.
From this place Velasquez sent Narvaez with thirty men to reduce the province of Bayamo, about 50 leagues from Barracoa, a fine open country, very fertile and agreeable.
To add to his affliction, the admiral received intelligence from Fort St Thomas, that all the Indians had abandoned their towns, and that Caunabo, the cacique of one of the provinces, was making preparations to reduce the fort.
He who reads this must not wonder that we reduce the marks of gold to the measure of a calabash, which is here done to shew that the Indians dealt in all these cases by measure, as they never had any weights.
They obtained indeed their object, which was to reduce the poor to the necessity of either quitting the place or becoming entirely their dependents.
As the reformation of the silver coin did not then reduce the price of silver bullion to the mint price, it is not very probable that a like reformation will do so now.
When masters combine together, in order to reduce the wages of their workmen, they commonly enter into a private bond or agreement, not to give more than a certain wage, under a certain penalty.
They have generally, therefore, been educated at the public expense; and their numbers are everywhere so great, as commonly to reduce the price of their labour to a very paltry recompence.
Its function is to reduce the waste of gas and ballast required to keep the balloon at a proper altitude.
His income cut off, he was obliged to reduce the scale of his book "and to omit many of the illustrations he had promised.
The hard but brittle surface was backed by softer and more tenacious metal, to reduce the breakage.
He states his position very clearly: "I never myself attempted to reduce theprinciples to practice, or to apply any of my discoveries to processes in the arts.
It became a desirable object to reduce thepower of this chieftain.
Nine months for common births the fates decree; But, for the great, reduce the term to three.
Nevertheless, in some degree to gratify the fury of the mob, and to reduce the authority of the plebeian trades, it was provided, that as the latter had previously possessed a third of the honors, they should in future have only a fourth.
The aim was to reduce the Catholics to poverty, ignorance, and impotence, and the aim was successful.
Does it not seem to you that it would be a more reasonable way, in such a state of matters, to reduce the price of your hosiery?
I have some goods that were given to me to supply Mr. Bruce's fishermen with including some of that cotton, and I have never been told to reduce the price.
In the Antarctic, therefore, conditions are peculiarly difficult for getting really accurate observations, and it is necessary to reduce the probability of error in a single observation as much as possible.
The young ice, which was continually forming in the very low temperature, helped to reduce the sea as soon as the gale moderated, and the 'Aurora' got back to Cape Evans on the evening of the 13th.
Towards the end of the year 1566, he sent Ruiz Gamboa with a detachment of sixty men to reduce the archipelago of Chiloé to subjection.
As Caupolican determined upon besieging these two cities, he committed to Lautaro the charge of defending the northern frontier against invasion, and set out for the south to reduce the cities of Imperial and Valdivia.
In pre-war days we rarely built a destroyer in less than twenty-four months, although shortly before the war efforts were made to reduce the time to something like eighteen to twenty months.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reduce the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
