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I understand your point with the argument using sup definition on a smaller subset of distributions. Also, by "obtained maximum decreases", do you refer to the threshold $\alpha_{k}$ decreasing for a given same tail probability? Does that mean that my intuition is correct ? Sorry for troubling you. I am a newbie to this forum.