Sentence examples for be to lessen from inspiring English sources

Ms. Wright added, "Our guiding principle throughout this process will be to lessen the impacts wherever we can".

But the president's intent actually seems to be to lessen violence in America, whereas the N.R.A.'s gibberish sounds like the big lie strategy -- the corrupted logic and bizarre exaggeration associated with doomsday cults, the Montana Freemen, Aryan Nation types and other single-issue, antigovernment crazies who rely on apathy, sloganeering and fear to force their points into prominence.

He continued: "The purpose of any effective drug policy should be to lessen the harm that illegal drugs do to society.

While there is a debate in this instance over whether the FBI truly is requesting a backdoor, make no mistake – the long-term impact if Apple is forced to comply will be to lessen the security and privacy of data worldwide.

These transgenic mice (TgAQP1+/+) showed increase in fiber cell membrane water permeability without any morphological, anatomical or physiological defects compared to the wild type indicating that the main purpose of the shift in expression from AQP1 to AQP0 may not be to lessen the membrane water permeability.

As Burkhardt wrote, regarding why she's still a virgin, "[a] long time ago I was taught -- and chose to believe -- that love and sex are intertwined in such a way that to separate them would be to lessen their value.

The goal is to lessen smoking, right?

"My goal is to lessen the pain of dying".

"The whole goal of this study was to lessen my angst during the N.C.A.A. tournament".

"My goal," he said then, "is to lessen the pain of dying".

The result has been to lessen considerably the incidence of officially measured poverty.