Diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia and glucose intolerance due to lessened effectiveness of insulin action, insulin deficiency, or both.
BT is a safe, natural and effective weapon for gardeners and farmers, and to lessen its effectiveness by overusing it, like Roundup, would be a terrible waste.
Will the compromise we had to make lessen the effectiveness of the campaign?
These two types of errors, targeting errors associated with the inclusion or exclusion, lessen the effectiveness of food aid.
Inclusion errors lessen the effectiveness because a small budget is partly spent on people who didn't need it.
Exclusion errors lessen the effectiveness, because the people we wanted to receive the resource don't get it.
Kidney dialysis, for example, which is required when the constriction of small blood vessels characteristic of advanced diabetes lessen the effectiveness of the kidneys, costs $25,000 a year per patient, Mr. Leonard said.
When you've finally found a great moisturiser, it becomes your holy grail and a staple in your beauty routine, but does using your go-to product everyday for long periods of time actually lessen its effectiveness?
The US is highly alarmed at the prospect of any increase in tensions between Pakistan and India, not only because of the broad implications for security in the region (both countries possess nuclear weapons) but also because any deployment of Pakistani troops to its eastern border (with India) would lessen its effectiveness fighting militants in its north-western areas (bordering Afghanistan).
Men's professional basketball in the United States (notably the National Basketball Association) widened it further to 16 feet (4.9 m) in the 1964 65 NBA season to lessen the effectiveness of centers, especially Wilt Chamberlain.
Otherwise, protein-energy malnutrition will further aggravate the clinical situation and lessen the effectiveness of medical therapy.
