1.   The narrow band would reduce the scope for incidental devaluation.

2.   The many prophylactic measures that city officials could have taken to reduce the scope of the disaster.

3.   Another approach is to reduce the scope of your search.

4.   Hanson has gradually been reducing the scope of its businesses through spinoffs and divestitures, while investing more heavily in its four core businesses.

5.   He can reduce the scope of his health care reforms in hopes of getting something rather than nothing.

6.   In another sense, Europe has created a new focus of power, sharply reducing the scope for national parliaments to exert their own authority.

7.   In so doing, the Court seriously reduces the scope of the Eleventh Amendment, thus underprotecting the state sovereignty at which the Eleventh Amendment is principally directed.

8.   Most of them would have reduced the scope of spending reductions affecting the elderly, the poor and other longtime Democratic constituencies.

9.   Nowadays, hardware and software companies alike are reducing the scope of their free technical-support offerings.

10.   Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, the majority leader who had led the move to broaden the bill, Friday headed the effort to reduce its scope.