Sentence examples for at abating from inspiring English sources

With a hearing in Congress on Wednesday to discuss the national security implications of a Chinese oil company's bid for Unocal Corp., Hong Kong-based CNOOC Ltd. is rolling out an advertising campaign aimed at abating the fears of Washington insiders.

The third step is to identify conservation actions and their effectiveness at abating the threats identified in step two.

Using information on threats to marine ecosystems, effectiveness of management actions at abating threats, and the management and opportunity costs of actions, we calculate the rate of return on investment in two conservation actions in sixteen ecoregions.

Achieving the objective relies upon a rigorous problem formulation and information on threats to marine ecosystems, effectiveness of management actions at abating threats, and the economic costs of actions.

From the perspective of policies directed at abating local air pollution, greenhouse gas mitigation may also be considered an ancillary benefit, but these relationships are not considered in this assessment.

"Absolutely, piracy is very much a concern and not abating at all," Ncube told the Guardian.

One encouraging development is that southern China's outbreak is abating, at least according to Chinese health officials.

No one should imagine that because the anthrax scare has begun to wane and the Northern Alliance has advanced in Afghanistan, the danger to Americans at home is abating.

This stands little chance of abating at a time when the energy appetites of China and India continue to grow and when a beleaguered America and a rising Iran are competing for domination of both the Levant and the Persian Gulf.

Nokia's trimmed-back estimates come on the heels of a similarly dampened forecast by its big Swedish rival, Ericsson, and reinforce concerns that the break-neck growth is abating at a crucial juncture.

Hostilities show no sign of abating at present, however.