11.   As banks have reduced their role in the leveraged-loan market, private investors have stepped in.

12.   As prime minister, he governs in an autocratic way that, critics say, reduces the role of his cabinet to that of a focus group.

13.   As the governments reduce their roles as retirement income providers, individuals are forced to look for ways to ensure income for their families after they die.

14.   Aware that some younger players thought Rice was being used to the detriment of Owens and J.J. Stokes, coach Steve Mariucci reduced his role slightly against the Saints.

15.   Both schools have sharply reduced the role that race plays in admissions, officials said.

16.   After Giuliani took office that year, he said he planned to drastically reduce the role of appointed lawyers and shift the cases back to the Legal Aid Society.

17.   All the talk of fund raising bothers advocacy groups that want to reduce the role of money in elections by overhauling the campaign-finance system.

18.   Brook, who first mounted this piece at his Theatre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, has greatly reduced the role the doctor plays in each tale.

19.   But a gain in Republican seats could prompt a renewal of efforts to sharply reduce the role of the federal government.

20.   But their roles may be reduced.