The phrase "ability to lessen" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capacity or capability to reduce something, such as pain, risk, or negative effects.
Example: "The new policy aims to enhance the ability to lessen the environmental impact of our operations."
Alternatives: "capacity to reduce" or "capability to diminish".
Therefore, planning for an urban subsurface sustainable future consists of the ability to lessen the use of traditional trenching techniques and developing coordinated installations of utilities.
Herring's play is based on the story of the murder of "the mad monk" who had become one of the most powerful men in pre-revolutionary Russia because of his influence over the Tzarina Alexandra, and his apparent ability to lessen the pain and bleeding of her haemophiliac son.
And if there are concerns, they're around its ability to lessen our connections to others – because we're spending too much time online, fighting about information because we read different sources, or because we're worried how it's impacting our kids.
If they feel their bill is too high they have the ability to lessen their use on a unit-by-unit basis".
Recent oncological research is now suggesting a correlation between melatonin and cancer: Studies have suggested it could have a potential ability to lessen the negative effects of cancer chemotherapy, enhance its therapeutic effect and reduce its toxicity.
Recent oncological research is now suggesting a correlation between melatonin and cancer: Studies have suggested it could have a potential ability to lessen the negative effects of cancer chemotherapy, enhance its therapeutic effect and reduce its toxicity (1).
Because of its ability to decrease oxidative stress and lessen inflammation, vitamin E has been evaluated to improve CS-associated diseases, for example, COPD and emphysema, lung tumors, asthma and cardiovascular disease.
An overview of some of the advantages include lower moisture content, lower formation of sugar degradation products due to moderate conditions, 100% recovery of solid material, and the ability for ammonia to lessen lignin's effect on enzymatic hydrolysis.
In these experiments, we studied the ability of cranberry PACs to inhibit biofilm formation of P. aeruginosa, potentiate the activity of gentamicin, as well as the ability of PACs to lessen Pseudomonas pathogenicity in vitro and in vivo.
For the brain, it's less clear, but somehow the result is a lessened ability to listen to and process verbal information.
If you respect each other's abilities, you're going to lessen the chances that you'll be critical of one another -- and you'll more likely stay in your own respective lanes.
