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 " 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 ".

We note the use of rhetoric as a weapon, the manipulation of the masses by propaganda, the `` mobilization '' of effort and resources.

This is to be accomplished by nearly doubling the present level of preventive effort, detection, skilled fire-fighting crews, and equipment use.

Wittkowsky counters that Swift's satiric use of statistical analysis is an effort to enhance his satire that " springs from a spirit of bitter mockery, not from the delight in calculations for their own sake ".

An effort to develop a new method might involve the use of a tunable laser to increase the specificity and sensitivity of a spectrometric method.

Moreover, the Territory's Constitutional Commission has expressed the view that " every effort should be made ", to encourage the use of the name " Virgin Islands ".

However, an episode of Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections relating to the Keck Observatory ( whose reflector glass is based on the Archimedes ' Mirror ) did successfully use a much smaller curved mirror to burn a wooden model, though not made of the same quality of materials as in the MythBusters effort.

In one application, it is actually a benefit: the password-hashing method used in OpenBSD uses an algorithm derived from Blowfish that makes use of the slow key schedule ; the idea is that the extra computational effort required gives protection against dictionary attacks.

In 1455, in an effort to control inflation, the succeeding Ming Dynasty ended the use of paper money and closed much of Chinese trade.

Jewish Usenet Newsgroup FAQ ) The Conservative movement makes a conscious effort to use historical sources to determine what kind of changes to Jewish tradition have occurred, how and why they occurred, and in what historical context.

In contrast, in genres that mainly or exclusively use pizzicato ( plucking ), such as jazz and blues, a great deal of time and effort is focused on learning the varieties of different pizzicato styles used for music of different styles of tempi.

" Some creationists and creationist organizations, such as the Institute of Creation Research, use these terms in an effort to make it appear that evolutionary biology is a form of secular religion.

However, in an effort to reassert its dominant role, IBM patented the bus, and placed stringent licensing and royalty policies on its use.

Introduced by Ditto Corporation in 1923, these machines were known for the next six decades as Ditto Machines and used by fans because they were cheap to use and could ( with a little effort ) print in color.

The impression of vocal effort is the result of using different timbres, and variety is accomplished by the use of microtones.

" The underlying effort here seems to be to use global warming as an excuse to cut down the use of energy ," he said.

While most of his proposals-" to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics ( including a consumer price index ) in order to facilitate this effort "-are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional-reserve banking still " remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom ".

Because the GWP of a greenhouse gas depends directly on its infrared spectrum, the use of infrared spectroscopy to study greenhouse gases is centrally important in the effort to understand the impact of human activities on global climate change.

In his later days, he spent considerable effort on trying to characterize the methods that people use to solve problems, and to describe how problem-solving should be taught and learned.

Alternative terms such as " cracker " were coined in an effort to distinguish between those adhering to the historical use of the term " hack " within the programmer community and those performing computer break-ins.

During the Manhattan project, future Nobel laureate Richard Feynman was the supervisor of human computers who understood the use of differential equations which were being solved for the war effort.

This was a part of the overall effort being made in Broken Hill to devise a practical and profitable method to use the newly developed froth flotation process to treat these tailings and recover the zinc.

However, with the proper choice of h, one can use the technique of rolling hash to compute all those hashes with an effort proportional to k + n.

In the case of Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U. S. 1 ( 1958 ), the Supreme Court unanimously rejected Arkansas ' effort to use nullification and interposition.