I now endeavoured to make sure of Patti, and she eventually consented to make a small reduction in her terms and to accept 4,000 dollars a night.
He, at the same time, gave me to understand that no reduction could be made in the terms which had been offered by Vanderbilt through Abbey.
This immoderate zeal had rendered the knights hostile to the Senate; they became still more so by the opposition offered by Cato to the reduction of the price of the farms of Asia.
The farmers of the revenue demanded a reduction in the price of the rents of Asia, on the ground that they had been leased to them at a price that had become too high in consequence of the wars.
The Samnites recovered courage; but the promptreduction of the Hernici allowed the Senate to concentrate its forces.
The result is, on the one hand, a clearing away of much fantastic phylogeny, on the other, an enormous reduction of the supposed gaps between groups.
No one factor will have such weight in the decrease of suffering and the reduction of the high death rate as enlightenment of mind.
To meet this in France, the Government came forward with a liberal grant of subsidies which have now been increased and placed on a more favourable basis, permitting of a very considerable reduction in the fares for transport by air.
The period since the Armistice has been employed in the reduction and consolidation of the Royal Air Force.
This can only be secured by increased reliability, reduction of charges and keeping the public informed of the progress made.
If the coming eight months are to bring the same proportionate reduction which the corresponding eight months of last year suffered, we frankly say now and here that a new debt will be incurred in addition to the old one.
The other eight months of that year suffered from a disheartening reduction which raised the total debt to nearly a hundred thousand dollars.
After we are assured that the reduction is complete, a strictorium is prepared, consisting of the pulvis ruber, egg-albumen and a little wheat flour, with which the shoulder is to be rubbed.
Dislocations of the ankle, after reduction of proper manipulation, should be bound with suitable splints.
Profits, are assigned to Policies every fifth year, and may be applied to increase the sum insured, to an immediate payment in cash, or to the reduction and ultimate extinction of future Premiums.
A glance at the table will show that in most cases the men who are dying are "industrial drinkers," who frequent public-houses in the districts where the reduction in the number of the licenses under the present Bill will occur.
Three days later, Edmund Burke proposed a reduction of the national taxation (which was then only a sixth part of its amount to-day), and a diminution of the power of the Crown.
Whig Ministry, and this when peace would rather have justified a reduction than an increase.
So continual domestic feuds checked mental evolution in Iceland as in old Scandinavia; and the reduction of the island to Norwegian rule in the thirteenth century could not do more for it than monarchy was doing for Norway.
But when the great plain of Latium was well peopled, the feverous area was in constant process of reduction by agriculture and drainage; and the inhabitants had become in large part immune to infection.
Unskilled or physically weaker individuals who conscientiously do their best, should be rewarded in some way, if not pecuniarily, at least by a reduction of their sentences.
Supernumerary fingers (polydactylism) or a reductionin the usual number are not uncommon.
The reduction of penalties is left entirely to the discretion and humanity of judges, who in many cases, it is true, are instinctively disposed to be more indulgent towards women and to take these conditions into account.
The reduction of the external world to subjective terms, the explanation of the optical illusion of objectivity, demands a much greater display of vain ingenuity than any theory of simple perception.
This is an important distinction to bear in mind, for the reduction of drones is unqualifiedly beneficial.
The more open woods and more abundant suns of eastern Washington effect that reduction of color in the "burnt" Thrush, which henceforth characterizes the species clear thru to the Atlantic.
Philip had thought differently about it instead of hurling his army on Paris, he had moved it back to Saint-Quentin, and kept it for the reduction of places in the neighborhood.
Led by Bern, eight of the older cantons determined upon a return to the system in operation prior to 1798, involving the reduction of the six most recently created cantons to their former inferior status.
They stopped the alarming increase of the national debt and made provision for debt reduction at a rate equalled at but two brief periods since the middle of the nineteenth century.
The number of Irish peerages was put in the course of gradual reduction and it is now under the prescribed maximum of one hundred.
In passing, it may be observed that there is, in fact, a distinct tendency toward the reduction of the spheres of authority which formerly were left to the states.
Its careful and conservative forecast two years ago encountered, like all similar benevolent work in all the denominations, a sudden and serious reduction of receipts.
The next year it provided a much diminished schedule of expenditures, but this was met with a further additional reduction of support.
When John, or Ivan Basilides, Grand Prince of Russia, had completed the reduction of this kingdom, he assumed this title, and it has since continued to his successors.
In the first place, the kind of stereoscope to be used must tend to modify the mental impression; and secondly, the amount of reduction from the size of the original has a considerable influence on the final result.
Control of the wayward is not to be sought in reduction of restraints, but in their multiplication.
I ventured to suggest mustering out, but neither the King nor any Minister of State was able to form a conception of any method of reduction and retrenchment but that of the public headsman.
A donkey quietly grazing near the north fort, exploded one of the mines there (an iron alembic which belonged to the time of Mahomet Ali, and had been used for the reduction of gold; it held some 10 lbs.
I must say I rather revel at the thought of the dismay which will attend the reduction of salaries to quarter their present rate, they have been so very selfish about these things.
A bill was presented providing for the reduction of the commission to be paid to organizers of new Tribes, but it failed to pass.
A bill was presented, to lay over one great sun, providing for a reduction in the fee for admission by withdrawal card.
This reduction in the difference of the averages is probably to be explained by the reduced complexity in the arrangement of the lines.
The first important change introduced in the C set was the reduction of the intervals between the tests for four subjects.
The second fact to be noted is the reduction in amount of the mean variation.
This large increase must not, however, be understood as indicating a simple reduction in the observer's capacity to locate points in the horizontal plane of the eyes.
A part of this reduction is probably due to training.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reduction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
