Sentence examples for be lessened by a from inspiring English sources

However, the expected survival benefit could be lessened by a higher metastatic risk.

Recent tensions between Japan and China could soon be lessened by a simple but significant gesture: a handshake between the two nations' leaders.

For the minority of those who are able to actually use the Internet, costs can be lessened by a combination of communal institutions and technical sharing devices.

Coppola's wrath is unlikely to be lessened by a recent description of the Godfather game as 'a free-roaming, Grand Theft Auto -style romp through New York city, spanning the years 1945 to 1955'.

The researchers point out that hydrogen's impact might be lessened by a reduction in atmospheric chlorofluorocarbons, which have been dropping since they were outlawed, or if the soil absorbs more hydrogen than scientists currently think.

American Petroleum Institute, 448 U.S. 607 (1980)], the Supreme Court ruled that "before he can promulgate any permanent health or safety standard, the Secretary [of Labor] is required to make a threshold finding that a place of employment is unsafe--in the sense that significant risks are present and can be lessened by a change in practices" (448 U.S. at 642).

Nor will the difficulty be lessened by an appeal to what has been written on the subject.

It's a pity, then, that any feelgood factor surrounding seeing the Beach Boys in 2013 is lessened by a nagging sense of disquiet.

With [computer] software, casual copying was lessened by a combination of education efforts and evolving, maturing business models, with some exemplary prosecutions of large-scale piracy.

This submersion was lessened by a rather sentimental score for solo piano, played by a Bard student, Kazio Sosnowski; pretty rather than meaningful, it narrowed the dance's emotional range, blunting its more sinister and mysterious shadings.

They seemed to accept the death and suffering around them as their fate, rather than as a disaster whose impact might have been lessened by a more responsive government.