Sentence examples for lessen the influence from inspiring English sources
The rules are intended to lessen the influence of money in city politics.
That is a sound idea that could lessen the influence of high-pressure lobbying — by drug companies, insurers, hospitals and doctors — that inevitably drives up costs.
Those results have strengthened the hand of racing industry figures who are pushing to lessen the influence of drugs, both legal and illegal, in racing.
"The intent of nonpartisan elections is to lessen the influence of political parties in the nominating process of candidates at election time," said Paul Elliott, a spokesman for the commission.
Mr. Obama also said that he would seek to lessen the influence of politics in the Federal Emergency Management Agency by giving its director a fixed term, similar to the structure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
PRESIDENT OBAMA has made some headway in government ethics reform by imposing new restrictions on those who join his administration from the private sector, moving to exclude lobbyists from presidential boards and commissions, and suggesting legislation that might lessen the influence of corporate campaign spending on federal elections.
The site-heterogeneous mixture model of CAT [ 57], which could account for among-site heterogeneity and lessen the influences of long-branch attraction (LBA), was used.
He took steps to liberalize French rule in the region, increasing the administrative role of the Vietnamese court and lessening the influence of the military in civil affairs.
They found instead that by the early 1970s the accusation of pandering was being used deliberately by prominent journalists, politicians, and other elites as a means of lessening the influence of public opinion on government policy.
Although all the major composers were church trained and fully cognizant of modal structures, a rapidly increasing use of chromatic tones in the 16th century lessened the influence of modal sonorities.
Unlike Mr Miliband, the new leader will be elected under a one-member, one-vote system lessening the influence of trade unions and members of parliament in deciding who wins.
