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But lately it seemed as if the entire city had been magically reduced to only two people--us.

But now, military officials say the area held by the Tamil Tigers has been reduced to just a few square kilometers of beachfront.

It was not an issue that could be sorted out in two years, nor could it be reduced to a single document or a single program.

However, if France balked, then America might be "reduced to the necessity of ending the war by an accommodation" with Britain.

"Such a decision will put thousands of jobs at risk -- it's heresy. Rose cannot be reduced to just a color, " he added.

Then in seeking battle we milled around between the enemy's main forces and his block houses and were reduced to complete passivity.

There was a period where she was reduced to prostitution for a while.

I am now reduced to using my own BlackBerry to remind those sitting across the table with me that I wouldn't mind a little conversation.

I then said that I had never known the Services reduced to such a parlous condition. This fairly set the cat among the pigeons.

Fortunately, given the facts, I had the fine reduced to almost nothing, but I still incurred a sufficient amount of unnecessary legal fees.

Our outlook at this time was that London, except for its strong modern buildings, would be gradually and soon reduced to a rubble-heap.

Sex is the "playful intoxication of a world reduced to just a room, two bodies and a bed" .

During monsoon time, when visibility is often reduced to 60m, the sea is usually rough.

will be reduced to ashes at once, but that hidden at the bottom of the heart will endure and remain fresh forever.

In this sedate garrison town ringed by jagged peaks, the gentle thrum of the day is usually reduced to a whisper by night.

In churches, membership is often reduced to simply adding your name to a roll, with no requirements or expectations.

If the complex argument of this book had to be reduced to a single sentence, that would be it.

Arranged on a platform that rests just above the ground, the home is reduced to a few essential elements, a main house and a small studio.

When he returned the next morning, he found his home reduced to its foundations, and heard faint cries for help.

Symptomatic of this was the Ford Taurus, once America's bestselling car. By early 2000 it had been reduced to a little-loved rental vehicle.

The heart ever dream, may be reduced to fragments in term of despair, the lost memory, also again unable to piece together a once perfect.

He said he had been reduced to a "human wreck" by torture he had undergone in a Cairo jail.

One reason for this was that the temple of the lord was meant to be a house of prayer, but it had been reduced to a market thruway.

But it does mean that our attempts to understand the world are reduced to the kind of thing that Newton did in case of gravitation.

his wife , whom he had reduced to a state of complete subjection , was a most convenient smokescreen for him in business affairs.

Manager Diego Maradona, once the greatest soccer player on Earth, has been reduced to something of a cartoonish figure.

Reduced to a minority, Congress is now looking for other allies to help it to hobble through to the polls later this year.

Outsiders trying to reach him are, in fact, reduced to passing notes or letters, to which there is usually no reply.

The question of good and evil reduced to one simple choice: survive or perish.

The once proud Padawan had been reduced to a lowly slave, toiling away for her uncle, Pol Secura.

An increase in productivity means that you've made it the capital of the labour force, and the costs can be reduced to a minimum.

The kingdom had shrunk, it had been reduced to a handful of villages.

WBXML also allows for common strings to be reduced to tokens as well, with the token table sent as part of the document preamble.

Making a decision of that magnitude cannot be reduced to a formula.

The wall that once served as the most powerful symbol of the cold war confrontation has been reduced to a few select memorials.

You are at the height when you are fully aware that you will be reduced to a victim of evil if you don't stand up in defense of justice.

If the link to current stakeholders is not as well supported with evidence, however, the score here might be reduced to the 15% - 35% band.

The lustrous, black eyes of the children glared with hatred as they looked at their village being reduced to ashes.

By the time the frantic talks concluded last Sunday night, Mr Cayne's stake in Bear, worth more than $1bn a year ago, was reduced to $14m.

Such was the intensity of the heat , they could barely approach the fire sometimes, and many houses were reduced to ashes.

The important point was that the Development Agenda could not be reduced to a discussion on this cluster of issues.

"People are not keen on seeing a magnificent animal like an elephant reduced to such an ordinary piece, " says Turner.

I am here, but no one would listen to me, more and more hate in this world, let the heart and its explosion, the moment reduced to ashes.

looking above , the sky is reduced to a barely seen thread , hence the name.

The main features: It has high yield of blood plasma and the rate of broken blood corpuscle can be reduced to the lowest.

so that they were just reduced to sort of a primitive vegetable state.

Within a year, the time had been reduced to five minutes.

The Yellow River has been reduced to "an agonising trickle" . It no longer reaches the sea for 200 days a year.

Some company towns have been reduced to tourist sites: Hershey attracts thousands of people a day with its tours and amusement park.

Practice as limit is only the foundation of Marxist dialectics; Marxist dialectics is practice, but is not reduced to practice dialectics.

Alone and unsupported, she was reduced to begging for her living.

We are so much involved in detail that we are reduced to almost total inability to see the wood for the trees.

Many Beijingers have been reduced to clustering around the gates to the area and taking long-distance snaps of the stunning venues within.

It is generally assumed that the photic zone extends to the depth at which the light intensity is reduced to 1% of the value at the surface.

Cymes terminal, occasionally contracted into a head or cymose clusters, rarely reduced to a solitary flower.

It hopes to sell the remainder of its stake, now reduced to around 77%, over the next two years.

Win reduced to a small street want, debt collection has been all day, but under fled Seoul from Busan.

Combinatorial optimization is concerned with problems where the set of feasible solutions is discrete or can be reduced to a discrete one.

However, the lack of systematic theoretical guidance, the work was reduced to a state of disorder.

The infantry attacked the enemy position in an action that was soon reduced to hand-to-hand fighting.

and Pringle, exaggerating the disaster, goes so far as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand men.

The Great Goddess is slain or reduced to the subordinate status of the consort of a more powerful male god.

racemes elongate or reduced to fascicles of a few spikelets, spikelets usually paired on short pedicels, the lowermost often reduced.

Reduced to such a tiny murmur, the mightiest cosmic events are easily overpowered by the gentlest mundane disturbance.

When a decline other than temporary has occurred, the carrying amount of such securities will be reduced to its fair value.

Mill saw that pleasure cannot be reduced to a mere quantitative analysis without taking into account certain qualitative aspects.

Owing to a spark of a cigarette, the barn was reduced to ashes with its whole store of hay.

With his fortune dissipated, the black sheep reduced to what he was before: doing odd-jobs, earning slender income, eating frugal meal.

Having almost run out of money, we were reduced to staying in a cheap hotel.

Plato thinks that a man could live on very little money if his wants were reduced to a minimum, and this no doubt is true.

If the boost pressure is really high, the compression ratio of the engine may have to be reduced to avoid knocking.

Results By the improvement of running the supply department, the rate of the potential infections occurring in hospital is reduced to zero.

Its capacity was reduced to 90, 000 and the ground was kitted out with the latest technology in the form of video scoreboards.

the hawk gens of the senecas were reduced to a small number of persons , and its extinction became imminent.

In the Senate, the Democrats could be reduced to such a slim majority that they won't be entirely in control there either.

The teacher, for his part, frequently reduced to trying to explain the inexplicable.

So it will be possible to save at least 20 million tons of grain every year if such losses are reduced to within the rational limits.

Has your productivity in your day job been reduced to the point that you regularly work nights and weekends?

The once strong, vibrant man was reduced to a sheet clad patient who tried to communicate his love to her through hall-shut eyes.

If the interval between frequencies is reduced to a certain value, the coupling will be so severe that this method can not be used.

This was reduced to one and a half years because Mr. Li was said to have cooperated.

atoms having an identical number of protons in each nucleus. Elements cannot be reduced to simpler substances by normal chemical means.

Much of this occurred as her dreamtime was reduced to only a small section of earth that she could have any say over.

Sinologists were reduced to speculating from afar whether Mao was more nationalist than Marxist.

But neither advertising brochures nor lyric poetry can ever be reduced to the kind of logic required of computer programs.

The main building of the Beichuan Middle School, a seven-story structure, had been reduced to a pile of rubble about 2 meters high.

cured by heating up the pressure and curing process, a stable for presenting the speed agent rubber "shrinkage can be reduced to minimum. "

But it should exist as an independent academic structure, because it cannot be reduced to any of the above. These are interesting times.

A Somali mother almost reduced to begging told us our food-for-work program had not only saved her life, but restored her dignity.

I would hate to think of Max, with his fierce intelligence and tenacity, reduced to sending mute signals by way of insects.

However, in order to stabilize their life on the surface, people are often reduced to a slave to money.

The blueprint copy time of the Moa cruiser blueprint has been reduced to be inline with other cruiser copy times.

That stage door, bricked over long ago and painted a uniform white, is now reduced to a small pierced-through service door.

Indeed, what once took up two entire exhibition halls at San Francisco's Moscone Center is now reduced to a much smaller show floor.

And yet on the night of Aug. 21, he was reduced to issuing impotent, rambling audio messages as his former subjects closed in around him.

In addition, since the pulse lengths are shorter with higher RF bandwidths, the echo time can be reduced to 10 ms improving SNR as well.

Sometimes they're reduced to trying to protect just one tree.

Obama at times was reduced to shaking his head and raising an index finger to protest: "that's not true" .

There is no need for each revision to be listed in the work item, and the number of tags required is reduced to one.

Weakened by illness and unable to produce and hunt enough food, the Yanomami are reduced to begging and most recently trading sex for food.

A "picture" is reduced to a very long list of numbers waiting to be converted back into visual form.

For each of these two stages, the problem is reduced to a nonlinear partial differential equation.

During the production process through a continuous adjustment of viscous inks for inking will be reduced to the lowest quality fluctuation.

Its ravages must be reduced to a level where reasonable economic return can be achieved.

primitive tropical gymnosperms abundant in the Mesozoic, now reduced to a few scattered tropical forms.

Its features can be reduced to technical concepts and its significance can be expressed by reference to band-widths and similar concepts.

When reduced to its essentials, life is very close to a computational function.

have guessed that after a week the limbs and face significant increase in bleeding, platelet reduced to 11.

Perhaps most importantly, the vote shows that Venezuelan democracy has not been reduced to a mere fa? ade.

Occasionally, the vague outline of . . . something passes: a car, a cat, a person - all reduced to shapes and shadows by the dark.

He shouted to awaken from a dream, he secretly glad that she's not reduced to that state, then from harding.

The process is repeated until the child is exhausted and emotionally reduced to an " infantile " state.

I am one who was lost in the crowd, whom the fizzing lights made dizzy, a zero who saw everything about him reduced to mockery.

Sour natural gas contains a certain amount of water, which should be reduced to a certain degree in its processing.

The mighty Crawler, which ferried Shuttles to the launchpad, will be reduced to hauling more terrestrial freight around the Space Center.

The country's debt was to be reduced to this level by 2020, and to a lower level in subsequent years.

With the water content being reduced to the lowest possible limit, anhydrobiotic organisms do not exhibit any metabolic activity.

Whereas inflationary expectations have moved centre-stage, monetary developments have been reduced to a walk-on part.

But if Earth is reduced to the size of a bacteria, and inspected under high-powered optics, would it seem stranger than a virus?

Such radical engineering philosophy was reduced to a slogan: Fast, cheap, and out of control.

But post-sorts, as does not affect file transfer and production speed, you can copy files to the prison is reduced to a normal state.

Can be quickly reduced to a state of MO systems.

Risk seemed to have been reduced to a permanently lower level.

In a matter of months, 10% of the bank's 56, 000 seriously delinquent borrowers had their payments reduced to 38% or less of income.

Many problems of dynamical systems can be reduced to an iterative functional equation or an iterative functional differential equation.

Gibbons said Brown's charge could eventually be reduced to a misdemeanor if he completes his sentence.

If there is no the sun radiation, the ground temperature will quickly reduced to near absolute zero.

It is recommended that the share of Chinas public hospitals in the health care market over the next few years could be reduced to 70%~60%.

AFter three hours, a few slices of pizza and a 180-dollar purchase that was reduced to 60 dollars, she was heading home.

the gorgeous farms look like moving green checkerboards, and the herd of cows is reduced to a few dots in the rear-view mirror.

Therefore, you should try to put on paper the resulting tension can be reduced to a minimum.

The US government and GM's management have said they are eager to see the Treasury's stake of just under 61 per cent, reduced to a minority.

Its leadership had been shredded by systematic assassination, and it was reduced to murderous but desperate "asymmetric" tactics.

Measured in the least squares adjustment of the function model to solve problems, eventually reduced to the problem of linear equations.

Usually, this sort of measurement can be quite elusive because it can rarely be reduced to a quantifiable factor alone .

Excluded is not easy, if not impossible, the effect can only be reduced to a minimum.

Soon he spent all his earnings and was reduced to a beggar.

They saw buildings reduced to rubble. Not one wall was left standing. No building was left intact. It was a heart-wrenching scene.

It also indicates that, though the sliding support is adopted, friction in the support is not reduced to a certain extend.

Following this one hour period, the system pressure shall be reduced to the MAWP of the system and are all welds and joints.

Frankfurt School's critical theory on mass culture can be reduced to two core ideas: mass culture is contra culture, and against the masses.

From this aspect, therefore, the whole of economics can be reduced to a single lesson, and that lesson can be reduced to a single sentence.

The precise electromechanical components can be reduced to the nonlinear and unconventional plane beam finite element system.

Samuel dismissed a suggestion that the world's most revered statesman should not be reduced to a comic figure.

Everything here was giant size but reduced to the appearance of littleness by the tremendous space around us.

In the United States, the average defect staff time has now been reduced to less than five years.

N. B. : It should be noted that in soft water areas, the amount of detergent used may be reduced to avoid excessive sudsing .

The lottery was torn to be reduced to fragments, fragments like autumn evening sunshine, cool viscosity on my face, nose, hair.

If you had crashed in an ocean, a high temperature zone, or a subzero environment, your chances of survival would be reduced to zero.

Each company that you want to store and transport costs can be reduced to a minimum.

So stress, where the jobs to be done exceed the available time, can be reduced to an acceptable and productive level.

A heart attack may occur if the oxygenated blood supply is reduced to the heart.

Your notion of street life is reduced to the few teenagers hanging out in front of the railway station on Friday nights.

As a result, the highest building in the world, regrettably, is usually reduced to a monument to the bygone prosperity.

with the caption 'She was yet another victim, reduced to a screaming wreck'.

Like most books on control system design, this book presents tools that can be reduced to mathematical equations: analysis and simulation.

Needless to say, online they have been reduced to a laughing stock.

These people, being reduced to the last extreme of misery, cried out that they and their children were dying of hunger.

In natural science and engineering technology, the resolutions of many problems are reduced to solving linear algebraic equations.

Emergency supplies are being transported into the hardest-hit communities, some of which have been reduced to drinking river water.

Otherwise, the so-called " Chinese" , to be reduced to a word word games, short fashion vulgar carrier.

I'd run out of cigarettes and was reduced to smoking the butts left in the ashtrays.

The six-stroke character xing (running), for instance, was reduced to a mere two vertical strokes in medieval calligraphic practice.

After that, Cairo was reduced to an Ottoman provincial capital until the end of the eighteenth century.

Numbers lose their sense of magnitude and are reduced to answers on the calculator's display window.

The physical medium is reduced to a mere means of personal contact.

When we combine motions, which we do all the time, each motion must be reduced to its minimum.

But with a lighter hybrid, like a Toyota Prius sedan, this could be further reduced to 5 tons.

After all, when two people love each other, one share of a good time will become two, and one share of a bad time will be reduced to half.

Overall, the risk of this type of cancer was reduced to one third of the control risk using this treatment.

These famous flops are reduced to punch lines, or trotted out as cautionary tales in boardrooms and business schools across the country.

I was reduced to between two or three hundred pounds in the whole, and this without any hope of recruit.

our actual world reduced to six square meters of living space. The rest of the cabin held our stores of diesel fuel, food and water.

It's almost like you're saying - in a post-cataclysmic world you're kind of reduced to the cave man state, and. . . What's the deal there?

Many problems of dynamical systems can be reduced to an iterative functional differential equation.

Now the factory's products have been reduced to a failure rate of 1 percent, has reached the world advanced level.

Idol of the Emerald Queen: This idol was providing greater healing than implied by its tooltip. It has been reduced to correct value.

Originally he proposed fines of up to $1, 000 for persistent offenders, but this caused such outrage that the figure was reduced to $100.

In the system, the size sample with signal with N level cycle in the whole cycle is reduced to read-in the second memory.

Eat red " beans" class plus 1, the length of the snake is reduced to a re-growth.

This pond needs to be large enough for the feed-water velocity to be reduced to 2% or less of the feed flume velocity.

The turkey was served with gravy, the taste of meat is so strong that all humans are reduced to carnivores in front of it.

In early 1875 the journal's name was changed to Engineering News and the subscription price was reduced to $1 a year.

Only through risk control, risk level can be reduced to the goal level and the complete significance of risk management can be manifested.

I seemed to be reduced to my former calm, sedate way of living.

Italy's debt could be capped, but could it ever be reduced to a more comfortable level?

Inflorescence a raceme or corymb, mostly terminal, sometimes lateral, few- to many-flowered, sometimes reduced to a single flower.

bases of glochids separated or contiguous or confluent into a wing, rarely reduced to tubercles.

Most of the city's four-lane roads are gone, reduced to two with a waiting lane for cyclists in the middle.

The towers themselves were reduced to jagged stumps; the atrium lobby arches looked like a bombed out cathedral.

to fully tap the business computer network resources, the benefits of information technology to achieve reduced to increase efficiency.

Expressions can be progressively reduced, to eliminate their dependencies.

The water level is reduced to a level where a portion of the membranes are exposed to air before draining the tank.

The ESSO LPG spheres shall be reduced to less than 200 tonnes per sphere during the felling process.

Exhausted by the political stalemate, they've been reduced to magical thinking, hoping that things will eventually get better by themselves.

The solution of the problem is finally reduced to solving a set of infinite algebraic equations.

Like Colonel Gaddafi in his freezer in Misurata, Mussolini was reduced to a bloody lump of meat.

IT WAS the mangroves he noticed first, reduced to cobwebbed wraiths as far as the eye could see.

There was still a light wind blowing and some of the bodies, reduced to ashes, were simply scattering like sand.

The services provided by the marine ecosystem are reduced to 15 items. The specific descriptions of each item are also presented.

Sometimes, the number of pegs cannot be reduced to one.

identify potential problems before they occur and take actions to make sure that these risks are reduced to a minimum.

But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.

be reduced to Lost in the forest and out of food, he was reduced to eating wild herbs and fruit to keep himself alive.

In a relatively brief period the archaeological record is reduced to mere scraps of stone, bone, glass, metal, and earthenware.

If negative equity is the real problem, principal will have to be reduced to stem the foreclosures.

And yet I was never reduced to flashing my boobs for information.

After one hour the concentration of bacteria had been reduced to below the safe level for drinking water.

We are reduced to feeling because he did not tell us.

During the siege of Leningrad in 1941-44, the Russian defenders were reduced to living at a level hardly better than animals.

The following year Mr Martin, who slept with an illegal pump-action shotgun, was convicted of murder (later reduced to manslaughter).

Improving the concrete green, can save more resources and energy and damage to the environment will be reduced to a minimum.

The residual lumen of the pouch is reduced to a narrow Rathke cleft, which generally regresses.

The "code, build, link, run" cycle of C and its ilk is reduced to a hastened "script, run. "

Berlin has already reduced to a trickle the special export guarantees crucial to companies trading with Iran.

An MSF doctor was reduced to buying a saw in a market to carry out amputations of gangrenous limbs.

The companies' 10 data centres will be reduced to four and their four networks will be rolled into a single global network.

Around me I saw complete devastation; countless uprooted trees, farms destroyed by tanks and bombs, and houses reduced to rubble.

The country that had begun as a poet's utopia was reduced to ruin and insolvency.

Within two hours, a European capital had been reduced to rubble, swept by floods and consumed by fire.

When the airport and visibility was reduced to below the threshold, the aircraft's take-off and landing would be difficult.

A key condition for contemplating European bonds is thus that public debt first be reduced to a sustainable level.

The electron acceptor used was a ferric salt that was reduced to the ferrous form during the reaction .

The judges sentenced him to death, this sentence was reduced to castration.

However, where combination antiretroviral drug treatment and Cesarian section are available, this risk can be reduced to as low as 1%.

Some English vowel sounds which are not given weight in speech become reduced to a rather formless central vowel.

In no more time than the telling might take, the kobold was reduced to a pile of rags, bones, and leathery hide.

People were accused grams of brezhnev listed mu, the tragic events listed by brezhnev's Tim reduced to an ordinary intelligence personnel.

By tempering or drawing, the hardness and brittleness may be reduced to the desired point for service conditions.

It depicts a drum kit lit so brightly from behind that the image is reduced to a skeletal abstraction.

Reported that Obama said that the power of freedom of expression given to these sites can be reduced to some extent, violent extremism.

Safety measures were improved, and the work day was reduced to eight hours, compared with the ten-or twelve-hour day common at the time.

Now, all history is reduced to the syllables of our name -nothing can ever be the same now the Immortals are here.

Reduced to cannibalism to survive through the winter, only half of the original group reached California the following year.

This means there is no need to remove adhered silicone on processing machines and machine wear is reduced to a minimum.

When these obstacles have been reduced to a vestigial form, they can be destroyed by resolving the mind back into its primal cause.

For instance, normal Clojure functions have low call overhead as they're mostly reduced to static method calls.

In the line integral in the plane, you had two variables that you reduced to one by figuring out what the curve was.

By this judicious choice the computations are reduced to a manageable size.

Visibility in Tianjin was periodically reduced to less than 100 meters, the local meteorological bureau said.

Flowers solitary in axils of upper leaves, sessile, minute, bisexual or unisexual, Perianth reduced to an entire rim on top of ovary.

But he believes morphogenetic fields can be reduced to standard chemistry and physics.

The data should support a conclusion that residues have been reduced to an "acceptable level. "

My proud and combative father had been reduced to bouts of weeping as each new smear surfaced.

The cowboy who hated to work unmounted was often reduced to riding a haymow, mending fences, and applying medicines to sick cattle.

On January 1st the main rate of VAT returns to 17. 5%, after 13 months in which it was reduced to 15% to help combat the downturn.

Starting from the mid 19th century, China was reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society increasingly impoverished and backward.

The total number of partial products is reduced to half by using Booth encoding (Figure 3).

The shopkeepers are complaining that business has been reduced to a fraction of what it was before the war.

The awful images sometimes left Chang shaking or reduced to weeping in front of her word processor.