Sentence examples for designed to dampen from inspiring English sources

For, in truth, this sixth Harry Potter novel is designed to dampen any readerly high spirits.

Older condominiums and co-ops are protected by laws designed to dampen tax increases.

He claimed that this was "psyops" designed to dampen the protesters' morale.

So George Osborne's stamp duty reforms, caning purchases above £1m, were partly designed to dampen that market.

Its safe sex campaigns - which long ago crossed the line from polite advice into moralistic hectoring - seem designed to dampen lust.

The ruling State Council and the country's central bank have issued numerous decrees in recent weeks designed to dampen the market and to crack down on speculation.

How about Ed's plan to dampen rent rises?

I agree with that, and I think the chairman would also agree that accounting standards should not be so malleable that they fail to meet their objective of helping to properly inform investors and markets or that they should be purposefully designed to try to dampen business, market, and economic cycles.

The signaling components implicated in regulating fungal immune recognition can teach us how cell wall dynamics are controlled, and represent potential targets for interventions designed to boost or dampen immunity.

The perfusion medium is circulated at 10 ml/min with a peristaltic blood pump, and passes through a specially designed chamber to dampen pulmonary pressure and remove emboli.

We document that forward-looking provisioning designed to smooth earnings dampens discipline over risk-taking, consistent with diminished transparency inhibiting outside monitoring.