Even the Iranians need him (as he likes to remind them) because his maneuvers promise to lessen and perhaps end the sting of United Nations sanctions.
The recasting here, however, severs the cause-and-effect link with the past, giving things an ahistorical feel, and lessening or perhaps simply effacing any sense that something has happened, that an external agency or event has affected the characters' lives.
With the C.B.A. negotiations starting soon, do you see any chance of the rinks being widened (to bring in more skill and perhaps lessen injuries and concussions)?
The development of Web-based tutorials--such as Virginia Commonwealth University's self-instructional program--will enable students across the country to enroll in training programs, and perhaps lessen the pressure on some institutions to come up with their own courses right away.
Mr Abe's popularity should mean a strong result for the LDP, perhaps lessening its reliance on Soka Gakkai, while opposition parties remain in disarray.
The intensity of the aerial attack had lessened a bit, perhaps because of bad weather, and Pakistan's foreign minister, Sartaj Aziz, was preparing to come to Delhi for "defusing tensions".
B.C.S. officials intend to spend the off-season revisiting their ranking system and perhaps lessening the the importance of margin of victory and increasing the value of head-to-head play.
For one thing, around the world, even in developing countries, birthrates have plummeted — from 6.0 globally in 1972 to 2.9 today — as populations have shifted from rural areas to cities and people have adopted urban lifestyles, and the drop has perhaps lessened the urgency of the overpopulation cry.
The lives of tens of thousands of people are tucked away in his collection of now-discolored folders though the poetic significance is perhaps lessened by the closet next door, which contains boxes of ashes dating back to the 60s decades before he came to own the place in 1988.
The City also contained concentrations of wealth, but rich families were tending to move out of the intramural area by the second half of the eighteenth century, perhaps lessening the need for service employments in the City compared with Middlesex and (especially) Westminster.
