According to Motley Fool, Nokia's recent company statement included this bit of business-speak / bureaucratese:
The change from our previous estimate of value growth for this market primarily reflects the negative impact of the recently weakened U.S. dollar, the general economic slowdown in the U.S., and possibly going forward some economic slowdown in Europe.
Let's highlight the prepositions and cliches or odd noun phrases: The change from our previous estimate of value growth for this market primarily reflects the negative impact of the recently weakened U.S. dollar, the general economic slowdown in the U.S., and possibly going forward some economic slowdown in Europe.
Not all prepositions are bad, but there are too many at the beginning of that sentence. OK, what's the verb? "Reflects". So this basically says: "The change reflects (bad stuff)." Let's clean it up.
My version 1: The decrease from our previous estimate reflects the recently weakened U.S. dollar, the general U.S. economic slowdown, and the risk of economic slowdown in Europe.
Depending on the surrounding text, we could make it still more active. My version 2, showing the subject in bold: We decreased our estimate to reflect the recently weakened U.S. dollar, the general U.S. economic slowdown, and the risk of economic slowdown in Europe.