Sentence examples for lessened by a from inspiring English sources

With [computer] software, casual copying was lessened by a combination of education efforts and evolving, maturing business models, with some exemplary prosecutions of large-scale piracy.

It's a pity, then, that any feelgood factor surrounding seeing the Beach Boys in 2013 is lessened by a nagging sense of disquiet.

This submersion was lessened by a rather sentimental score for solo piano, played by a Bard student, Kazio Sosnowski; pretty rather than meaningful, it narrowed the dance's emotional range, blunting its more sinister and mysterious shadings.

Coppola's wrath is unlikely to be lessened by a recent description of the Godfather game as 'a free-roaming, Grand Theft Auto -style romp through New York city, spanning the years 1945 to 1955'.

That said, it is interesting that since my wife died, the Mail has laid off, presumably because the importance of cutting me down to size was rather lessened by a personal tragedy that might elicit public sympathy for me.

They seemed to accept the death and suffering around them as their fate, rather than as a disaster whose impact might have been lessened by a more responsive government.

However, the sensitivity of the test to outliers decays as the distribution closely resembles a Gaussian shape or is highly symmetric around the centre of the distribution and such sensitivity is lessened by an increase in sample size.

Authority is not lessened by an apology offered.

Nor will the difficulty be lessened by an appeal to what has been written on the subject.

However, this decrease was lessened by an increase in non vaccine-type IPD, a finon vaccine-type that reported IPDother countries (6, 7 ).

Certainly, a settlement's punitive effect is lessened by any tax sweeteners it generates.