Later, as the uninspiring politics of the post-Mubarak era dragged on, I watched as Magdy soured on the process; he joined in the street clashes against the interim military government in the fall of 2011, but with lessening enthusiasm.
The terrorist attacks in Europe over the last year haven't lessened travelers' enthusiasm for vacationing there this summer.
He also gave Ms. Quinn an unexpected present, of sorts, on Wednesday, when a reporter asked whether a series of disputes between the Council and the mayor had lessened his enthusiasm for her as his possible successor.
In his youth, Chapman bowled quite regularly, but his negative experience bowling for Berkshire lessened his enthusiasm, and he did not take it seriously.
The many decades of follow up required to capture a small number of cancer cases, the enormous funding necessary to conduct prevention trials of sizable complexity, and the fact that oral contraceptives can also confer negative effects, such as an increased risk of thrombophlebitis and breast cancer, all lessen enthusiasm for the conduct of such prevention trials.
He was a supporter of electoral experiments such as instant runoff voting and the popular election of the U.S. President, an enthusiasm that did nothing to lessen my enthusiasm for him.
But that did not seem to lessen the enthusiasm in the visitors' clubhouse after the game.
This did not lessen the enthusiasm of Eurosceptics for bashing the document.
"These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong," Spicer said.
(Not knowing yet what this actually is has done little to lessen the enthusiasm for the question).
Analysts say that the backtracking by the French could lessen legislators' enthusiasm for graduated response systems in other countries, at least if they involve the threat of disconnection.
