The recoil reduces the weapon's accuracy.

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.

But this increases systemic risk, rather than reducing it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Under the FAO seed accord, a nation can register plants, share their seeds, and derive profits from resulting products. This useful policy reduces exploitative practices that sometimes enable multinational corporations and wealthy governments to obtain outrageous profits from indigenous agriculture.

The fact that most Europeans are satisfied with limited political and military involvement outside of Europe makes increased defense cooperation even less likely.

On the one hand, it reduces your shadow, ensuring a basic level of protection. On the other hand, it can attract even more attention, if you decide to be completely invisible.

Research in Africa suggests that giving de worming medicine to primary school pupils reduces the prevalence of health problems that lower children s concentration and attendance.