The recoil reduces the weapon's accuracy.

But this increases systemic risk, rather than reducing it.

In the past, when a stay at home wife went to work, the chance that her marriage would dissolve increased.

Today, going to work decreases the chance of divorce.

Such disdainful communication further reduces trust.

Cellulosic feeds such as switchgrass also minimize environmental impacts.

Farming carnivorous fish increases rather than reduces pressure on wild stocks.

But that doesn't automatically ease the grief and confusion that an entire nation still feels.

On the contrary, it represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust.

A lower valuation for the euro diminishes the risk of recession in Europe.

Friendship redoubles joy and cuts grief in half.

But this does not diminish the gravity of what is happening in Syria, or lessen the seriousness of Morell s warning.

A growing population dilutes not only the accumulation of physical capital, but also human capital.

This weakens overall demand, leading to steeper declines in prices.

Of course, countries that embrace the use of sanctions do not intend this, but that does not lessen their responsibility for the outcome.

It makes the weak force very weak by giving the weak particles a large mass.

We know that circumcision reduces HIV infection by 60 percent in men.

Equally, for those not depressed, a circle of mentally healthy friends halved the chances of mental challenges arising.

Thomas Jefferson compared knowledge to candles when one is used to light another, it does not diminish the light of the first.

A monopoly is poison for a market economy, because it increases prices and decreases volume.

A text, however, reduces the infinite possibilities of a system to form a closed universe.

So, as things went through this process, Fincher would always say, It sandblasts the edges off of the performance.

It leads to misallocations and will ultimately reduce prosperity around the world.

The absence of a modern industrial base diminishes the WANA economies ability to absorb the surplus generated by oil revenues.

Pearson cuts another 3,000 jobs, slashes dividend to revive business

Trade liberalisation does not decrease aggregate employment instead, it changes the composition of the labour force, making the whole economy more efficient.

A good available now has a different value than the same good available at a later date value has a time as well as a quantity dimension.

Though lower oil prices depress consumer prices, they should boost production and overall GDP.

Ticagrelor, which is made by UK firm AstraZeneca and sold under the trade name Brilique, reduces this risk by making clots less likely.

Indeed, by relying mainly on military solutions to political problems, the US seems to be increasing rather than reducing the threats it faces.

The increase in the household saving rate reduces America s need for foreign funds to finance its business investment and residential construction.

In the new Congress' first couple of weeks, the House passed a bill scaling back the Dodd Frank financial reform act.

Critics of Bachelet claim that this agenda is already depressing business investment and is responsible for relatively slow economic growth.

According to Concepción, this reduces the matter to nothing more than the condemnation of individual acts of corruption in other words, a merely moral concern.

But the strengthening euro reduces both import prices and export demand, which, in itself, causes prices to fall .

Tax credits or accelerated depreciation lower firms cost of investing and therefore raise the after tax return on investment.

Private sector capital flows now dwarf traditional public sector aid flows.

The expectation that girls will grow up to do little other than serve their husbands reduces parents incentives to invest in their daughters education.

Counter intuitively, however, the excessive number of Europeans actually diminishes Europe s influence, because they usually defend national interests, which are often divergent.

These include restrictive regulations that reduce firms ability to undertake new activities or enter new markets, especially across borders.

When it comes to ECB purchases of government bonds, no one understands exactly for how long and for what purpose the new weapon is to be used which reduces its effectiveness.

This increases developing countries exports and reduces their import demand (or increases it at a lower rate than export growth).

At the same time, however, Iran knows how costly it would be for the Americans (and perhaps the Israelis) to use force, which reduces the effect of the threat.

The quality of children in poor households goes down as their quantity goes up, because poor families with many children are unable to invest enough in the education of each child to ensure that future adults benefit from a key determinant of economic success.

Once teaching reduces, if not eliminates, the original competitive advantage associated with a piece of research, academics and their funders are forced to seek new sources of advantage by producing new knowledge.