Sentence examples for decided to lessen from inspiring English sources

To compensate for its inability to quickly raise rates, Chase has decided to lessen its exposure by no longer offering cards to a portion of its customers that it deems the riskiest.

Dr. Muller said that the group had agreed and decided to meet in other churches to lessen pressure on Father Powers.

"Acting as a good neighbour and in order to lessen this problem, they decided to spend an extra £30,000 and increase the height of the floodlight masts by 10 metres so that they can be aimed down by an angle greater [and] cause less light spillage to adjoining properties.

Last year, to close the gap between her family and professional lives, and to lessen her carbon footprint, Cayne decided to move downtown.

First, to lessen frontline infantry casualties, it was decided to barrage remaining German strongpoints with 155 mm guns.

Mr. Schulz said that Amtrak decided to break the increase in monthly fares into two parts "to lessen the impact after hearing from commuters that it was too much in one step".

Microsoft could lessen that price disadvantage if it decided to add Media Center functionality to its Xbox video game system.

The punishment would be determined by a separate committee that could decide to increase or lessen it.

To lessen the intensity of the polite but strained conversation, we decided to go for a walk.

"I am extremely disappointed that President Obama has decided to reject the Keystone XL pipeline that is expected to create 20,000 jobs and lessen our dependence on oil from hostile sources," Mr. Whitfield said in a statement.

LOS ANGELES — DreamWorks Animation, trying to lessen its dependence on the volatile movie business by aggressively expanding into TV programming, has decided to forgo cable television in favor of Netflix.