restrict

Esimerkkilauseet

We must certainly restrict its powers.

I shall restrict myself to the social issues.

We need not restrict ourselves to alcoholic products.

We have tried to restrict the noise pollution for citizens.

You restrict the practice of grafting to herbaceous cuttings alone.

thin

Esimerkkilauseet

All this makes me wonder whether this coup is merely the thin end of the wedge.

Human resources are too thin in relation to the volume of aid that we are supposed to manage.

diminish

Esimerkkilauseet

This will diminish the level of errors.

I agree that it would be desirable to go even further, but do not let us diminish this first step.

All that does not diminish my great appreciation of the way the rapporteur has done his work.

I hope the brevity of my congratulations does not diminish the warmth of them.

This is not, however, to diminish the primary role of farmers in ensuring the safety of their produce.

cut down

Esimerkkilauseet

This would cut down a great deal on abductions.

They see forests being cut down and deserts spreading.

33495 8 per hectare, will cut down production in due course.

The number of flights, which was originally three per day, has been cut down to two.

The flat land is overgrazed, the forests have all been cut down and ecological meltdown threatens.

make smaller

lower

Esimerkkilauseet

Competition also leads to lower costs.

Let us lower and enforce speed limits.

Other observers expect even lower growth rates.

Anything lower would seriously hamper budding artists.

But we see no reason to lower our guard.

turn down

deduct

crop

Esimerkkilauseet

The same arguments crop up time and again.

However, the fight against drugs goes beyond crop - spraying.

This part - session has produced a rich crop of reports on transport.

We are aware of the cases which crop up time and again.

Pollution has further economic consequences, by reducing crop yields and damaging trees.

curb

Esimerkkilauseet

We must find the means to curb the globalisation of counterfeiting and piracy.

In order to curb this development, goods transported by road ought to be transferred to the railways.

In addition, the document is packed with rights that do nothing to curb the powers of the institutions.

It has always been the task of democracy to curb the power of princes.

cut back

Esimerkkilauseet

But that would mean having to scrutinise our policies and cut back on them.

They have cut back on their research funding for both large and small projects.

We will cut back our time a little because the interpreters are working today in continuous session.

I repeat: unnecessary expenditure on unnecessary meetings really should be cut back.

The first thing that the poor cut back on if prices rise is alcohol consumption.

decrease

Esimerkkilauseet

Reducing consumption will cause a decrease in production.

Decrease in exposure however also decreases the risks.

49480 That will decrease the chance of damaging and unnecessary conflicts.

Those districts which have not suffered losses will therefore see their incomes decrease in any case.

Fortunately, there is a steady decrease in discrimination in a large number of countries.

eliminate

Esimerkkilauseet

We must eliminate dangerous ships.

It would be a serious mistake to eliminate all public aid.

It is suggested that we should eliminate the two - phased negotiating approach.

The euro is another subject on which we need to eliminate misunderstandings.

Our intention was, and still is, to eliminate any possible risk for the consumer.

lessen

Esimerkkilauseet

Nothing else will solve the problems or lessen the human rights abuses.

prune

Esimerkkilauseet

In the plenary we must prune these unnecessary amendments and focus on the essence of the issue.

mitigate

Esimerkkilauseet

Social policy served to mitigate the most damaging effects of economic policies.

Then pressure arises to mitigate measures and to permit more exclusions.

rebate

reduce

Esimerkkilauseet

49341 , so as to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and thereby reduce the emission of carbon dioxide.

Its aim is to reduce expenditure.

This will reduce the political diversity of debate.

In order to reduce disparities between regions, of course.

I also back the other proposals to reduce noise pollution.

To decrease, reduce, diminish.

To deduct (in taxation).

abate

allay

Esimerkkilauseet

Modernisation can do much to allay that.

Categorising beef as steers, bullocks or heifers will not do anything to allay the fears of the consumer.

We have to ask ourselves what we are trying to achieve and whose fears we are trying to allay.

alleviate

Esimerkkilauseet

Of course we must do everything in our power to alleviate famine.

42955 There is a commitment to alleviate the problems of the most depressed regions.

We should be spending more to alleviate this crisis rather than contemplating spending less.

42954 5 billion of structural funds to alleviate the problem of unemployment are currently blocked.

One way to tackle this is to improve education for women and alleviate rural poverty.

attenuate

ax

axe

curtail

Esimerkkilauseet

There is no point in seeking to curtail the debate, as the report is trying to do.

deflate

derogate

diminish.

Esimerkkilauseet

This will diminish the level of errors.

I agree that it would be desirable to go even further, but do not let us diminish this first step.

All that does not diminish my great appreciation of the way the rapporteur has done his work.

I hope the brevity of my congratulations does not diminish the warmth of them.

This is not, however, to diminish the primary role of farmers in ensuring the safety of their produce.

dock

Esimerkkilauseet

And, as always, the farmers will be in dock.

downsize

erode

Esimerkkilauseet

That would erode the independence of the scientific advice.

extenuate

hold down

knock off

phase down

recoup

subtract

To decrease

To deduct .