The rate of the company in the Metropolitan area for a business connection was L20 for a yearly agreement, with substantial reductions for second and additional connections, and L12 for private houses.
The payments to the Peninsular and Oriental Company were based at first entirely upon mileage covered, and reductions were made if the packets fell below a minimum speed agreed upon.
Corresponding reductions were made at the same time in the book post and the pattern and sample post, and were made applicable to correspondence with British North America and the British possessions in Europe.
These changes were in the shape ofreductions in wages.
It exasperated the landlord, while, by placing before the tenant the continual temptation of further reductions in rent, it tended to check good cultivation.
Footnote 71: Giving reasons why reductions in the number of officers and employees and in the salaries and expenses of the Department of State should not be made.
Salutary reforms have been introduced by the Secretary ad interim, and great reductionsof expenses have been effected under his administration of the War Department, to the saving of millions to the Treasury.
By your sustainment of the rigid economies already inaugurated, with hoped-for extension of these economies and added efficiencies in administration, I believe further reductions may be enacted and hindering burdens abolished.
When some very moderate wage reductions were effected last summer there was a 5 per cent horizontal reduction in rates.
It is also suggested that the practical effect of a proposed amendment might be to prevent voluntary reductions of rates by the carriers.
If no rate could be increased without the approval of the commission after affirmative showing by the carrier it might happen that many reductions now voluntarily accorded would not be made.
It is also suggested that the practical effect of the proposed amendment might be to prevent voluntary reductions of rates by the carriers.
Besides these and other positive additions to the expenses of operation there have been considerable reductions in revenue brought about by the various regulative statutes.
If no rate could be increased without the approval of the commission after affirmative showing by the carrier, it might happen that many reductions now voluntarily accorded would not be made.
Orders, or suggestions having practically the force of orders, requiringreductions in rates.
The duke of Wellington, for many years commander-in-chief, was too anxious to hide it away in the colonies in order to save it from furtherreductions or utter extinction, to attempt any great administrative reforms.
In these successive reductions the same ratio between the number of officers and of men, and between the various kinds of units shall be maintained as is laid down in that article.
The reductions formed from the converts early in the seventeenth century, formed what has been called "the republic of Paraguay.
On August 27, for instance, two days before the new law went into effect, the Commission received notices of over five thousand separate tariffs which represented reductions from previous rates.
The dramatic manpower reductions of 1946 were felt immediately in the two major elements of the Marine Corps.
Because of troop reductions and the policy of discharging individuals with low test scores, he said, the experiment had lasted only five weeks.
Approval of this plan eliminated the last Negroes from combat assignments, a fact that General Thomas suggested could be justified as "consistent with similar reductions being effected elsewhere in the Corps.
Each succeeding inventory reported impressivereductions in these figures.
This part of the corps was composed of many small and usually self-contained units, but in a number of activities, particularly in the logistical establishment and the units afloat, reductions in manpower would (p.
But they pretend that it doesn't concern them, that they already make large enough reductions on the pilgrimage tickets, and that they can't enter into any questions of people dying.
Reductions had been made all along the line, not without regard, of course, for sectional interests, in memory of the principle that the "tariff is a local issue.
He recommended a revision of the tariff, including some striking reductions in schedules, but the tariff act of 1883 was even less satisfactory to the public than such measures usually are.
Although it made numerous definite reductions in duties, it was by no means a drastic "free trade" measure, such as the Republicans had prophesied in their campaign speeches.
Alabama had rising iron industries, and her Senators shared the emotions of the representatives from Pennsylvania as the proposed reductions on iron products were contemplated.
But the truth was, Sir Robert Peel in his reductions had dealt only with little more than ten millions sterling of the revenue of the country, and had left the remaining thirty-seven millions untouched.
He said he would have a committee on import duties next year, and have all the merchants to show what share the foreigners had obtained of the reductions that had been made of late years.
Salutary reductions in habitual expenditures" were urged in every branch of the public service from the diplomatic and revenue services to the judiciary and the naval yards.
The internal taxes should now be dispensed with and corresponding reductions be made in "our habitual expenditures.
Yet within a year it became necessary to delay further reductions in the naval establishment and to impose new taxes to meet the very contingency which the peace-loving President declared most remote.
Judging from the results of the past six years sweeping reductions are quite possible while still allowing for a paying railway revenue.
While successive reductions in Federal taxes have relieved most farmers of direct taxes to the National Government, State and local levies have become a serious burden.
This latter figure shows the reductions in departmental estimates for the coming year made possible by the operation of the Budget system that the Congress has provided.
The legislation of the last session effected in the diplomatic and consular service certain changes and reductions which have been productive of embarrassment.
These are savings recommended to me by the Secretary of Defense, who has assured me they can be safely achieved and will not diminish our ability to negotiate arms reductions or endanger America's security.
Supported by our allies, we've put forward draft agreements proposing significant weapon reductions to equal and verifiable lower levels.
It is now clear that defense and other essential government costs must remain at a level precluding further tax reductions this year.
The Congress should therefore begin now to evaluate the potentialities of a TIP program so that when the next round of tax reductions is appropriate a TIP program will be seriously considered.
It also proposes responsible tax reductions to encourage a more productive economy, and adequate funding of our highest priority programs within an overall policy of constraint.
The possibility of further tax reductions must depend on the budgetary situation and the economic situation.
As additional reductions in expenditures are brought gradually but surely into sight, further reductions in taxes can and will be made.
The attention of Congress is invited to the importance of making suitable modifications and reductions of the rates of duty imposed by our present tariff laws.
Substitution of a militia for the standing Army, and adoption of every measure, such as reductions of military service, leading up to it.
An old-age pension act has been passed, great reductions have been made in military expenditure, the conscript laws have been modified, and the Socialists led in the opposition to the Belgian policy in the Congo.
Reductions in the rate of tribute were to be authorized by the fiscal and oficiales reales (ibid.
Large reductionsof salaries of ships' officers, soldiers, and sailors were urged.
This again, in view of these reductions and of periodic revisions of rent under the Land Law Act of 1881, is fatal to purchase.
The supposed purpose of many of those violent reductions of interest was to prepare the way for reducing that of the public debts; a purpose which has sometimes been executed.
Such successive reductions of the tax, however, though they may not prevent altogether, must certainly retard, more or less, the rise of the value of silver in the European market.
But, after all that we have seen[1516] of symmetrical districts and reductions of hidage, we ought not to take fright at this point.
They all point to great reductions of hidage, which seem to have been distributed with a fairly even hand.
Under the present law, it will be noted, should successive reductions lead to the cancellation of all licenses, a vote of the electors can never restore more licenses than existed at the time when the last was doomed to extinction.
After its second reading the Bill was referred to a select committee, which made reductionsin the concessions, and these were further reduced, after prolonged debate, upon its reconsideration in the Assembly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reductions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
