1.   These reforms were partially aimed at reducing the influence of court officials and other persons who served as unofficial lawyers.

2.   Whether the curbs on police investigation will reduce police influence on the outcome of the criminal process is not easy to determine.

3.   What may be done to reduce the influence of intractable opponents?

4.   The rationale behind the changes was to reduce the influence of money politics following the Recruit scandal.

5.   Fragmentation would reduce our influence to virtual nonexistence.

6.   Alone among Arizona Republicans, Rep. Jim Kolbe harbors doubts about term limits, which are aimed at reducing the influence of career politicians.

7.   And he asserted that passing campaign finance reform legislation would be a form of environmental protection, because it would reduce the influence of big corporate polluters.

8.   And skeptics question whether voluntary public financing will, in fact, reduce the influence of special interests.

9.   At the same time, the Seragen board was restructured to reduce the influence of BU.

10.   BellSouth this spring made an investment in long-distance carrier Qwest Communications but might have reduced influence as Qwest merges with U S West.