Sentence examples for lessen if not from inspiring English sources

In presenting visitors with a vast sample of Mr. Ai's photographic and video work over the years, the Jeu de Paume exhibition attempts to lessen if not fill that void.

More important maybe it is time to look at the circumstances, what we can do to lessen, if not stop, the busy filter of our minds?

Waxman-Markey offer us the ability to advance the ball towards Copenhagen, and that will allow us to lead the world in the development of a new economic paradigm that will effectively lessen if not displace our dependence on fossil fuels to power our collective economic engines.

The importance of a good and complete design is that it saves the builder time and effort and lessens, if not totally eliminates, wastage of materials.

But at a deeper level, one ignored by Mearsheimer and Walt, these problems would not disappear or seriously lessen if Washington abandoned Israel.

Our World Cup humiliation, for instance, would have been lessened if we hadn't been quite so bothered about progressing to the knockouts – and we might have played better.

The pains and anxieties of daily living would doubtless be lessened if wrongful willing did not occur, but there would still be danger and disease, accidents, natural disasters, occasional deprivation, the sufferings of old age, and eventual death.

It is possible that security concerns could be lessened if the consultation were not directly between the doctor and the patient in their home, but rather, as in other telemedicine services, between a distant specialist and a health care professional together with a patient in a local clinic.

In general, the Obama Way is being cast (recast?) as a long-term plan to build relationships with the opposition party that will lessen the rancor, if not win votes.

Gun control advocates believe that the loss of life in mass shootings could be lessened if the perpetrators didn't have ready access to guns and accessories that allow for automatic fire.

The second decade of life is also a time when the individual lessens his emotional (if not physical) dependence on his parents and develops a mature set of values and responsible self-direction.