The impact of increasing systolic blood pressure on reducing the probability of a good outcome in the S-TPI was lessened as was the effect of being male.
The ultimate risk would be destroying NATO if American security guarantees to its members appeared lessened as a result of trade-offs in talks with the Russians.
In 2007, the year a gunman shot 32 people dead at Virginia Tech, Republican candidates discussed whether, had students been allowed to carry guns, "the tragedy might have been lessened", as a moderator put it.
Those have not lessened as a result of David Cameron's efforts to defend financial services at a Brussels summit on December 9th.The noisiest threats come from European regulators, who are preparing a barrage of regulations that will apply to financial firms.
The power of some pieces, such as the handcuffs made out of the precious huali wood used to make luxury furniture in China, and strewn lasciviously across the bed in Churchill's birth-room, could be lessened as a result of insufficient knowledge.
Freddie devised a new way to assess its books during the quarter and losses were lessened as a result.
The German leads his team-mate by 11 points going into the weekend but what could have been a major psychological blow to Hamilton will have been lessened as a result of Hamilton's problems.
Again, the Chinese government would be happy to see their ownership in Alibaba lessened (as well as Yahoo's).
Qom would be lessened as a place of scholarship," said the preeminent Shiite religious authority in Lebanon, Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.
"In a costume, this fear may be lessened as a result of anonymity, or because of the perception that conventional rules don't apply".
In 2008 during the campaign, in January right after the inauguration, the day before the speech, and directly after the speech military families were assured that their time with their loved ones would not be lessened as a result of this already questionable strategy.
