How To Use Lessening In A Sentence
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Some independent experts, while critical overall, praise the administration for its role in spacing out the negative shocks from the record home repossessions taking place, lessening the chances of the economy suffering a fatal blow.
Bailout Oversight Panel Slams Obama Administration Over Foreclosure Crisis
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It can avoid approximate factorization or block-bidiagonal matrix, and has obvious superiority in enhancing accuracy, lessening amount of calculation, improving stability.
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A three-year courtship enabled them to paint realistic portraits of one another, lessening the chances of a rude awakening after marriage.
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The business contended with difficult market trends and an industrywide lessening in demand for exchange-traded funds, which track markets.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Reading Room, with its broad encircling staircases, appears somewhat out of proportion, lessening the impact of the porticos in the courtyard, which are grand in their own right but diminutive by comparison.
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Skin grafting has great value after extensive burns, not because it hastens healing, which it probably does not do, but because it has a marked influence in lessening cicatricial contraction.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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One major reason for satisfaction is that American medicine has been astoundingly successful in lessening mortality from the two most feared killers, cancer and heart disease.
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Another method described in an ancient text is sugar-candy taken with rice-wash in the form of a linctus to produce sterility in a woman without lessening her passion.
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The researchers think this lessening of friction may occur among the grains in granular flows, such as snow cascading down a mountainside.
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A mid-stage trial showed that when TC-5214 was given to patients who did not respond well to citalopram, an antidepressant sold under the name Celexa, patients experienced a significantly greater lessening of their depression than those who took citalopram plus a placebo.
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He says that it's possible additional tax breaks will be approved late this year, but that pressure on Congress to approve more stimulus measures has "abated" because of the recent enactment of the historic economic-rescue package and because "the crisis atmosphere is lessening.
Voters' New Choice: Dueling Tax Breaks
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To some extent, this may indicate a lessening preference for the institutions of marriage.
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But their number was small, lessening the odds of encountering any of them.
OUT OF THE ASHES
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This land surface reflected energy back into the atmosphere rather than absorbing it, lessening the amount of energy on the land surface available to do things like convect water vapor to form clouds and thus rain.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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These can be linked to the user's Facebook, increasing the shareability and lessening the chance of missing someone pivotal on the list.
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If the plan does not pay, what then? only a part of the money can be lost; and to have given that to an hospital or an almshouse would have been called praiseworthy and Christian charity; how much more to have spent it not in the cure, but in the prevention of evil -- in making almshouses less needful, and lessening the number of candidates for the hospital!
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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The reason is clear: they do not spend their resources on lessening human pain but making it further acuter.
South Asian Perspectives on Global Terrorism
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DHEA and NPY should not turn soldiers into cold-blooded killing machines, however, as they don't work by lessening emotional responses to disturbing situations.
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We should also continue lessening the tax burden.
The Sun
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We should also continue lessening the tax burden.
The Sun
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Some independent experts, while critical overall, praise the administration for its role in spacing out the negative shocks from the record home repossessions taking place, lessening the chances of the economy suffering a fatal blow.
Bailout Oversight Panel Slams Obama Administration Over Foreclosure Crisis
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Beyond this little opening, and bounding it on every side, stood the encircling wall of woods, through and over which gleamed the bright waters of the far-spreading Umbagog on the north; while all around, towering up in their green glories, rose, one above another, the amphitheatric hills, till their lessening individual forms were lost, or mingled in the vision with the lofty summits of the distant White
Gaut Gurley
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Frank exhaled, feeling a lessening of the tension that had been knotting his stomach muscles all week.
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People will use their cars less as a result, reducing air pollution, decreasing traffic congestion and lessening peak period demands on public transport.
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These were, even then, lessening the forested areas; and finds of deep-sea fishbones in middens prove they were taking to sea, probably in skin-covered boats, the ancestors of Inuit canoes or Irish curraghs.
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Edison's father Eucalyptus once remarked that if Lulu succumbed to her scurvy pox no one would even know but for the lessening of her complaints for hard tack and goat milk.
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Ten per cent of the discount was in recognition of the lessening of the charge.
Times, Sunday Times
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The free use of the diminutive termination in _ie_ or _y_ -- a termination capable of expressing endearment, familiarity, ridicule, and contempt as well as mere smallness -- not only has considerable effect in emotional shading, but contributes to the liquidness of the verse by lessening the number of consonantal endings that make English seem harsh and abrupt to many foreign ears.
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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It is a labour intensive business, but Lisa says as they are getting more established and organized the workload seems to be lessening.
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Also, some coaches are lessening the fall impact of injuries by scheduling spring practice earlier.
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This has been an exercise in lessening BP's liability from day one.
In Gulf Of Mexico, 'They Are Literally Shrimping In Oil'
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The slowing Chinese economy is lessening consumption.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sense of calm and silence, the great waste of sea, the monotonous 'plash' of the paddle-wheels, the sort of solitude in the midst of such a crowd, the gradually lengthening distance behind, with the lessening, as gradual, in front, and the always novel feeling of approach to a new country -- these elements impart a sort of dreamy, poetical feeling to the scene.
A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
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There was a lessening of the tension over the hall, and almost an audible sigh of relief in the gallery as Colum drank from the quaich and offered it to Jamie.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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Instead, however, of their laughter lessening, the cachinnations became so violent that I began to feel seriously alarmed.
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It has important functions of capital structure optimization, owned stock lessening and modern incentive system promotion.
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The membrane operational modes are of great importance to a satisfied filtrate fluxand lessening membrane fouling.
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Returns from investment banking are under mounting regulatory pressure but there is also lessening competition.
Times, Sunday Times
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When some swelling of the laryngeal structures still exists, this gradual corking has a therapeutic effect in lessening the stenosis by exercising the muscles of abduction of the cords and mobilizing the cricoarytenoid articulation during the inspiratory effort.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
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Ten per cent of the discount was in recognition of the lessening of the charge.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, it would be a fair point to state that mandatory seating in Premier League stadia has played a role in lessening trouble in the stands.
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The Leads are a greate many stepps up on the top, a Large Cupilow of windows, and ye walls round ye Leads are so high a person of a middle stature Cannot Look over them scarce when on tiptoe, which is a Greate Lessening of its beauty wch would give a Large prospect round of the Country of 10 or 12 miles off.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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himself the father, thus lessening the force of the illegitimacy.
SPLITTING
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Social disapproval of ethnic exogamy is lessening, though the government unofficially discourages it.
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Returns from investment banking are under mounting regulatory pressure but there is also lessening competition.
Times, Sunday Times
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The amendment arose from a long-standing interest in lessening human exposure to mercury, a known neurotoxin and nephrotoxin.
Thimerosal
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Less active imaginations than that of the Irish peasant would be worked on so as to conclude that some means more _active_ than sickness or old age were had recourse to, for the purpose of lessening the taxes on land, by getting rid of the poor.
The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Enter
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I enjoyed the climb, the lessening forest, the alpine plants (the diapensia was in full flower, with its upright snowy goblets, while the geum and the Greenland sandwort were just beginning to blossom), the magnificent prospect, the stimulating air, and, most of all, the mountain itself.
The Foot-path Way
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For eight years they never demanded any lessening of carbon-dioxide emissions and allowed arsenic to remain in the drinking water of millions of Americans.
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Reliance on folk medicine has been lessening, and modern medicine with physicians, nurses, clinics, pharmacies, and sanatoria is the norm.
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And there's that whole concept of a lack of masculinity, a lack of manhood, you know, a lessening of self because of the occupation that turns particularly men towards remanning themselves.
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I then moved for the enlargement of our privileges, and lessening of our customs, especially at Baroach, and that we might have a daily bazar or market at the water side, where we might purchase beef for our people, according to the _firmaun_ already granted by the Mogul, and because other flesh did not answer for them.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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Since then my pains have been lessening, and the greater part of this day I have enjoyed perfect ease, only I am totally inappetent of food, & languid, even to an inward perishing. ... [email protected], last modified 5/10/99; standard disclaimer; copyright information.
Letter to Thomas Poole
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The two horns cushioning him from the impact, as his opponent reeled back, his force lessening.
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Most life expectancy for the buck seems to be in lessening the need for health care rather than increasing the supply of it.
Benefits of Health Care Spending, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty