Sentence examples for and that lessened from inspiring English sources

He didn't keep her around, it was a one-night stand, and that lessened the blow.

The measure passed amid staunch opposition from Metro and its board, which argued the transit agency loses more than $25 million a year to fare evasion and that lessening the penalties would only exacerbate the problem and lead to more crime.

I often recommended balanced budgets to colleagues and the Administration that lessened operating costs and prioritized services with a focus on public safety, trash pick-up and the Detroit Water & Sewerage Department DWSDD).

Plus a recipe for anchovy-and-garlic sauce that lessens the astringency and boosts the flavor.

"These ads provide distraction and amusement that lessens the perceived waiting time," Mr. Diina said.

Worries That Real Estate Will Go Way of Dot-Coms The parallels between the way that real estate-crazed Americans are behaving today and the way they once did toward Internet stocks are raising alarms among many economists -- even those who acknowledge that there are important differences between homes and stocks that lessen the odds of another meltdown.

Conditions improved over the last century because safety was profitable: employers wanted to avoid injuries that lessened productivity and drove up costs, notably the bill for workers' compensation insurance.

He has always offset his meticulous approach to art making and his preternatural drawing facility by accepting chance and creating conditions that lessen control and increase awkwardness.

We need to seek social, economic and political solutions that lessen our headlong drive toward material accumulation.

Josh Havens, a spokesman for Gov. Rick Perry, said the governor favored a curriculum that required four years of math and science and "does not support efforts that lessen the accountability and academic rigor that prepares our students for career and college".

Blackface mocks and trivializes African-Americans and their experiences, often accentuating negative stereotypes that lessen and demean.