Sentence examples for lessen rather from inspiring English sources

Its regulation of train lengths, admittedly obstructive to interstate train operation and having a seriously adverse effect on transportation efficiency and economy, passes beyond what is plainly essential for safety, since it does [p782] not appear that it will lessen, rather than increase, the danger of accident.

The state regulation here involved, admittedly obstructive to interstate train operation, and having a seriously adverse effect on transportation efficiency and economy, passes beyond what is plainly essential for safety, since it does not appear that it will lessen, rather than increase, the danger of accident.

ALG members were of the unanimous opinion that the EPR system had to lessen rather than add to the audit and administration burden, releasing time for direct patient care, or else it would be unusable.

But generally avid for play-texts – having enjoyed Tom Stoppard's new play The Hard Problem (Faber) twice on the page after once on the stage – I found that Game was lessened rather than strengthened by being read afterwards.

If there was a gradual lessening, rather than a complete elimination of the subsidy, perhaps there would be time for the market forces to kick in without kicking out all the people who lost everything.

Yes, the nation has had a big recession, but recessions typically tend to lessen inequality rather than increase it.

What all these responses have in common is that they are negative reactions, and although totally understandable, they lessen us rather than enhance us.

So the aim of such tailored quantitative assessments may be to better communicate an order of magnitude of the changes needed, a clearer differentiation of the impacts of different scenarios and to highlight which factors may contribute most to a lessen impact, rather than to provide an exact assessment of goal fulfilment.

And as our planet adds another two billion people over the next 25 years, the dangers, complications, and human demands will not be lessened, but rather heightened.

But testers were surprised to find that in collision tests under 30 mph, even those systems meant to just lessen the crash rather than avoiding it did indeed avoid the crash altogether a third of the time.

He pointed out that the agent who, rightly, visits a friend in hospital will rather lessen the impact of his visit on her if he tells her either that he is doing it because it is his duty or because he thought it would maximize the general happiness.