The deduction merely reduces taxable income by the amount of the expenses.

Such an angle merely reduces the size of the null-gee region.

This purpose would be undercut if additional federal dollars were "supplanted" by merely reducing the level of state or local funding for special education.

It was later criticized as obsolete and merely reduced Bohlmann's intelligence.

Are relationships really so superficial that merely reducing wrinkles and fat improves them?

It's also not quite clear how the drug is working, whether it is merely reducing anxiety or has some other effect on speech.

Republican senators say that their budget does not really lower Government spending but merely reduces the rate of growth of spending.

It merely reduced the amount of money on hand with which to begin the current fiscal year.

This must then actually create less of an impact on the environment and for that reason we are against merely reducing the quantity used.