Sentence examples for he lessened from inspiring English sources

After which he lessened his involvement in the business.

The doctor is your colleague, and whether by intention or by accident, he lessened your burden.

That didn't mean he lessened his focus on hitting, fielding and breaking down film last spring.

In the end, Damien can't accept the Anglo-Irish compromise because he's committed acts, such as killing the boy, that would become meaningless if he lessened the absoluteness of his goals.

What is clear is that in directing attention to air conditioning, he lessened curiosity about other, more controversial, aspects of East Asia's rise.

Frank Miller – commenting on areas where he lessened the Spartan cruelty for narrative purposes – said: "I have King Leonidas very gently tell Ephialtes, the hunchback, that they can't use him [as a soldier], because of his deformity.

He lessens the pressure on Mayo's occasionally shaky 3-point stroke.

James Wood notes that he lessens the sting of his political observations by putting them in the mouths of his most flagrantly unreliable characters.

He can take former Senate colleagues, but each time he does he lessens the chance the Democrats can recapture at least one half of congress - unless he chooses a senator from a state where a Democratic governor can fill the vacancy by appointment.

But then suddenly, for a page or two, we slip into her soul; we feel her anger at his disloyalty, her hurt pride as a woman, her unchanged pride in his "dark sceptical genius" and her puzzlement at his failure to see how he lessens himself by scorning what he has that is treasurable and honourable.

In doing so, he lessens the potential return in a bull market but insulates his investors from some of the risk of a market crash.