Sentence examples for lessen power from inspiring English sources

The Chinese government's decision this month to import more coal in order to lessen power outages — and control rising coal prices — ensures that blending will increase rapidly.

Before this, person-portable gas chromatographs either operated isothermally at relatively low temperatures or at ambient temperature to lessen power demands, but several person-portable gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC MS) instruments capable of temperature program operation have become available in the past ten years based on this heating method.

In addition to the recession, last summer was very cool historically lessening power demand for cooling.

Improving gender equality and lessening power imbalances with men is an integral part of achieving reproductive rights (16), a relationship recognized by the Millennium Development Goals.

Knowing that such reactions may occur helps lessen their power.

Simply increasing the base pay of a banker may lessen the power of that motivational tool.

By this account privatisation does little or nothing to lessen the power of the state.

But, as the Romantics were to discover, this did nothing to lessen their power – particularly frightening ones.

Republicans also want to lessen the power of credit rating agencies -- the private firms that judge how risky securities are.

Second, reclaiming a word to lessen its power is a right only available to those to whom the abuse is directed.

Tennessee and Indiana governments debate bills that would lessen union power while labor rights workers in other states protest to show solidarity with workers in Wisconsin.