Sentence examples for Lessen the ability from inspiring English sources

Finally, large interest obligations lessen the ability of the government to finance other governmental activities.

That might lessen the ability of future Congresses to play games of chicken over the debt ceiling.

What better way to mismanage the federal budget in the face of a huge new spending program than to enact tax cuts that lessen the ability of the government to pay for it?

Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat and a staunch supporter of arms control, counters that so long as an effective missile defense does not create more diplomatic problems than it solves, it could lessen the ability of a small, hostile nuclear power to threaten the West with nuclear blackmail.

If we want our real economy to grow and prosper, we need to lessen the ability of hedge funds to profit from market volatility.

Stressful situations can lessen the ability to think clearly and trainers and training course directors found the dance helped HWs to recall each discrete action of the primary survey.

This lessens the ability of the British people to scrutinise the activities of the government and is characteristic of the back-room deals that led to Mr Juncker's appointment".

The global economic crisis has greatly lessened the ability of most countries to set aside the financial resources to support even small basic research projects, let alone large-scale genomics projects.

The lack of independence necessitated orthogonal transformation of the data, but these transformations resulted in the loss of information and lessened the ability to associate a discrete phenotype (i.e., a specific Biolog test) to a causative genotype.

With repeated laser imaging, however, a number of fluorophores in wide use showed susceptibility to photobleaching, thus lessening the ability of fluorescently labeled samples to be archived and repeatedly imaged over time.

Decreases in the ratio of free cytosolic NAD+ to NADH in diabetic retinas have been linked to altered aldose reductase activity [ 44, 45]; however, as complex I catalyses the transfer of electrons from NADH to coenzyme Q, reduced abundance of complex I subunits could lessen the dehydrogenase ability, resulting in increased free NADH.