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.
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.
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.
Instead, their haste to go first wound up lessening their influence, rather than giving them a louder voice.
Moreover, perhaps this wasn't the time or space, but the companies chose to highlight current environmentally friendly practices that put them ahead of the game (with things they ought to be doing from the beginning like recycling and lessening energy consumption) rather than focusing on real future efforts to further greenify their companies.
The original referred to an attempt to lesson, rather than lessen, reliance on aid.
It may not be that simple, legal experts say; the often-misunderstood issue of mental retardation can increase, rather than lessen, the complexity of a death penalty case.
They concluded that a break-up would be more likely to increase, rather than lessen, the opacity of Tyco's accounts.
