I'm encouraged that large oil companies did not derail this state's commitment to lessen global warming, and I'm encouraged in our state's gubernatorial and senatorial contests to see that big money doesn't always buy an election.
When contacted by the CBC, all of the companies included in the list said that they are making commitments to lessening their impact and making their products easier to recycle.
Mission statements are crucial to lessening this possibility for catastrophe.
This is crucial to lessening the impact.
A strong 2015 climate change agreement signals our commitment to each other to lessen these tragedies and provides one means of tribute to victims of the ISIS attacks.
There, people from street vendors to Government officials expressed fear today that disorder in Nigeria would cause that country to lessen its commitment in Sierra Leone, perhaps allowing the rebels to make a comeback.
But it gets far worse if the United States were not only to completely cancel its climate engagement and just keep on burning fossil fuels, but also cause the world to lessen its commitment, too.
"This kind of flamboyance does not help at all," he said, "and I can imagine people in Bonn being very upset". Mr. Müller said France, as head of a European army, wants to be seen as equal to the United States, although it does not want America to lessen its commitment to Europe.
Mr Raja calls the approach "re-radicalisation" - not trying to lessen offenders' commitment to their faith, but instead developing an understanding of the importance of peace in Islam.
While the governments of Blair, and now David Cameron, insist academies will raise standards throughout Britain and enable the country to catch up with its educational model state — Finland — there is also a belief that the present cash-strapped government is anxious to lessen its financial commitment to education by encouraging the formation of privately sponsored academies.
