This has necessitated a continuous review and reevaluation of the defense program in order to redirect resources to the newer and more important weapons systems and to eliminate or reduce effort on weapons systems which have been overtaken by events.

A concerted effort was made to reduce the amount of gambling on games which was leaving the validity of results in doubt.

Recently, in England, there have been plans to raise the age limit for purchasing knives, including utility knives, from 16 to 18, in an effort to reduce knife crimes.

In an effort to increase birthrates, the Italian Fascist government gave financial incentives to women who raised large families, and initiated policies designed to reduce the number of women employed.

All 4GLs are designed to reduce programming effort, the time it takes to develop software, and the cost of software development.

In an effort to reduce vandalism, many cities in Australia have designated walls or areas exclusively for use by graffiti artists.

In an effort to reduce Gabon ’ s reliance on meat imports, the government set aside in Gabon ’ s unpopulated Savannah region for three ranches at Ngounie, Nyanga, and Lekabi.

Despite his all-out effort to reduce the public-sector deficit, the overall ratio of fiscal deficit to the GDP in 1990 showed little change from that in 1989.

The natural beach at Hayling was predominantly sandy but in recent years it has been mechanically topped with shingle dredged from the bed of the Solent in an effort to reduce beach erosion and reduce the potential to flood low lying land.

In an effort to reduce the use of kryptonite in Superman storylines, all known kryptonite on Earth was transmuted into " k-iron " in a 1971 storyline titled " The Sandman Saga ", though kryptonite could still be synthetically manufactured by a variety of known and unknown means, and additional material left over from the destruction of Krypton would continue to fall from space.

In " The God Particle " he once wrote " The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

is a game console from SNK that was released in 1994, four years after its cartridge-based equivalent, in an effort to reduce manufacturing costs.

States are attempting to align high school curricula with the minimum standards for beginning college in an effort to reduce college dropouts and the number of remedial classes being taught at universities.

In an effort to reduce drug use in America, for the past 50 years the US government together with the United Nations have been waging a war on drugs.

While Singer acknowledges that there are problems with ensuring that money goes where it is most needed and that it is used effectively, he does not think that these practical difficulties undermine his original conclusion ( that people should make a much greater effort to reduce poverty ).

The meta-study found that pair programming tends to reduce development time somewhat and produces marginal positive effects on code quality, but that pair programming requires significantly more developer effort ; that is, it is significantly more expensive than solo programming.

In an effort to reduce increasing piracy in the nearby region, Seychelles requested Indian Navy to carry out anti piracy operations in her waters.

The country has made some effort to diversify the economy and reduce the macro volatility during the last 15 years.

In his most open challenge to Congress, Harding forced a deferral of a budget-busting World War I soldier's bonus in an effort to reduce costs.

Tools which are frequently used to control harvest are bag limits and season closures, although gear restrictions such as archery-only seasons are becoming increasingly popular in an effort to reduce hunter success rates.

The federally mandated project intends to improve security and reduce security costs, and is part of NNSA's overall effort to transform the Cold War era " nuclear weapons " enterprise into a 21st century " nuclear security " enterprise.

Between 1979 and 1982, the Schmidt Administration pursued such policies in an effort to reduce unemployment.

Specifically, is a concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the U. S., reduce America ’ s vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur.

Homeland security is officially defined by the National Strategy for Homeland Security as " a concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur ".

The proposal was ostensibly to ease the burden of the docket on elderly judges, but the actual purpose was widely understood as an effort to pack the Court with justices who would support Roosevelt's New Deal.

In general, developments in the Second Sino-Japanese War were to the advantage of the CPC, as their guerilla war effort had won them popular support within the Japanese-occupied areas while the KMT's burden to defend China against main Japanese assaults due to its status as the legal government of China proved costly to Chiang Kai-shek and his troops.

With this type of story, the invaders, in a kind of little grey / green man's burden, colonize the planet in an effort to spread their culture and " civilize " the indigenous " barbaric " inhabitants or secretly watch and aid earthlings saving them from themselves.

To support the war effort, the Iberian Crown imposed a heavy tax burden on the Viceroy of Naples in order to restore the coffers of its vast empire, whose Golden Age was inevitably coming to an end.

Some 12, 000 ( some estimate 15, 000 ) fled Safed and were a " heavy burden on the Arab war effort ".

In an effort to reduce the burden on manufacturers applying for orphan drug status, the FDA and EMA agreed in late 2007 to utilize a common application process for both agencies.

State sales taxes generally exempt certain goods and services in an effort to reduce the tax burden on low-income families.

Desire for profit with minimum effort and seeing work as a burden to be avoided, and doing no more than what was enough for modest life, were common attitudes.

* The use of liquids that provide calories ( usually in combination with flavoring and perhaps rehydration salts ) increases the cleaning burden by nourishing bacteria, and if the user neglects to empty and rinse the bladder, judging the cleanliness of the bladder at a later date involves more effort than with containers that are more transparent and in some cases more accessible.

According to progressive scholars, American judges steeped in laissez-faire economic theory, who identified with the nation ’ s capitalist class and harbored contempt for any effort to redistribute wealth or otherwise meddle with the private marketplace, acted on their own economic and political biases to strike down legislation that threatened to burden corporations or disturb the existing economic hierarchy.

In an effort to ease this potential burden, Britain considered allowing a commercial company the right to administer and develop the eastern territory.

It's as if Jackson, aware that this was her premier effort under a new, $ 40 million record deal, felt weighed down by the burden of proving herself.

In an effort to decrease the facility's burden on taxpayers, the Community Auditorium issued an expression of interest for an organization or individual to become a naming sponsor in February 2008.

Torvalds argued that this approach " results in the wrong dynamics and psychology in the system " by shifting burden to the upstream maintainers rather than forcing downstream maintainers to put more effort into keeping their trees free from garbage.

At the outbreak of the Civil War the Union was depending upon hand-to-mouth borrowing to meet expenses and with the beginning of hostilities at Fort Sumter in April 1861 the burden of funding the war effort and paying employees, including soldiers in the field, offered no small challenge.

Typically, pro-capitalist theorists argue that " there is no alternative to the market ", and the anti-capitalists argue that markets could not even exist without many non-market mechanisms and supports ( i. e. marketisation merely shifts the burden of unpaid work effort onto someone else ).

One of the key aspects of this effort has been the creation of a management system designed to enable service providers or value added resellers to lift the burden of security management from the end users while at the same time delivering additional services such as automatic security and software updates, content filtering, anti-virus and more.

The aim is to harmonise processes and minimise burden on the delivering and enabling groups, ensuring that we work efficiently and minimise duplications of effort.