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Example sentences for "reduce them"

  • Nature does not present to us the cases in this form; and how are we to reduce them to this form?

  • For this purpose he concerted with all his neighbours, whom he persuaded that it was proper and necessary to destroy these wicked vagabonds who had come into their country to reduce them to servitude.

  • They had been unable to reduce them to fewer settlements because the various bands were often at war with one another and could not reconcile their difficulties.

  • And thus that necessary diligence was compulsory in order to reduce them to a civilized life and to a good government.

  • Consequently, although those missionaries were among them for more than seventy years, they were unable to reduce them to the mild yoke of the law of Christ.

  • Among other ordinances established in it was the one mentioned above several times, namely, that the vicars of the villages near the heathens endeavor most earnestly to reduce them.

  • In the course of this time he promised to reduce them to quiet and he carried his playfulness to the point of saying that if they should be sooner pacified, he would deliver them sooner to the senate.

  • The victory was his, but he was unable to reduce them to order until Agrippa came to Sinope, apparently with the intention of conducting a campaign against them.

  • When after much pleading he found himself unable to reduce them to order, finally he drew his sword as if to despatch himself.

  • And since those men must remain in the same order, it is always an impossible thing to reduce them to that which they have never observed.

  • It is a hard thing, when established, to reduce them to a greater degree of virtue.

  • A severe punishment was inflicted on them in the month of September; and recently, in the month of May just passed, another fleet went there to punish and to reduce them.

  • We seldom attempt to reduce them into a harmonious whole, to reconcile their inconsistencies, or to fit them into a consistent system.

  • Along with the inability to take a general view of the beliefs he held, and to reduce them to a philosophic system, went an inability to form abstract ideas.

  • They hoped that if they attacked the rebels when they appeared to be most secure, it would not be difficult to reduce them all to their former quiet.

  • Just consider, your Reverence, what will be the condition of their minds, when we try to reduce them to the knowledge of our good God, and to the obedience of the king our sovereign.

  • It would be possible to reduce them in this way if all things were species of essence, if the individuals were contained within these species, and if there were nothing outside of these species.

  • It suffices to reduce them to the quality which supplies their name.

  • Miracles were not inevitable in Maimuni's philosophy; but attempts were made to reduce them as far as possible to natural causes, and to interpret in a rationalistic manner the Biblical verses which contain them.

  • This bishop wished to limit the liberty of the Jews, and to reduce them to the low position they had held under the Merovingian kings.

  • For Maimuni the miracles of the Bible were inconvenient facts, and he endeavored as much as possible to reduce them to natural causes; the Talmudical miracle-tales he refused to consider.

  • Nor is the commission of crime requisite to reduce them to this condition, but the fate of all is alike, who are unfortunately taken within the territories of an enemy, upon the breaking out of war.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    battle cruiser; black cinder; but had; compose herself; disturb them; door life; few lines; finite things; fire under; glacial deposits; great deeds; hand column; hollow tone; killed himself; light soils; moral beauty; much snow; peace and; reduce from; reduce the; reduce them; reduced copy; reduced from; reduced scale; several minutes; small fishes