Sentence examples for instead of lessening from inspiring English sources

She points out a weird new kind of equality in that, instead of lessening the pressure on women to be young and nubile, Hollywood is simply heaping more on young male actors.

He told Woodhead that Hermes "was aware I was struggling and going through a tough time personally", but "instead of lessening the burden, [Hermes] increased the volume against my wishes, which was really the last thing I needed".

So they built ever more tools to give apps access to users' attention, instead of lessening it.

Again, note in passing how, in a realm of egalitarian team synergy, as in that of human intelligence, "inequalities" in merit often derive from "differences" in talents, leanings, and abilities, such multidimensional differences in personality (see Wolf et al. 2007 on the evolution of animal personalities) often improving the whole team's synergistic capacity instead of lessening it.

If a Board uses the above approach they not only have a good chance of lessening dysfunction, but of "seeing the sky," and hitting the ground running towards it instead of running into or away from each other.

It's my way of lessening tension".

They found instead that by the early 1970s the accusation of pandering was being used deliberately by prominent journalists, politicians, and other elites as a means of lessening the influence of public opinion on government policy.

And the brutality shows no sign of lessening.

You don't need to use fresh flowers...You can use fake ones instead to lessen trash because I used fake ones instead of real ones.

But instead of trying to lessen its reliance on tourism, Mexico is moving the other way.

Vaccinated human volunteers were protected during aerosol infection from the most dangerous typhoidal form of infection, but the incidence of the ulceroglandular form of the disease was not affected; instead, vaccination lessened the severity of the infection [8].