For Biblical translation, then, it seems the choice is between giving offense to one group (those in favor of total gender-inclusiveness) or giving offense to another (grammar fiends and/or actual sexists), and so we shouldn't judge the updaters of the N.I.V. too harshly: they seem dutifully, but not overly, concerned with lessening inaccurate language that skews male.
Manafort declined to comment on the allegation during a rumbustious briefing with reporters on Tuesday morning, insisting instead that Trump's use of commonplace language should not lessen the impact of her words.
By also providing professional interpreters who have received specific ACP training we believe language and cultural barriers are lessened.
He developed a style of declamation that was well-suited to the French language; this innovation led to a lessening of the demarcation between the recitative and the aria, so that French opera acquired much more continuity.
Their value, however, is lessened by the writers' ignorance of Náhuatl (the Aztec language at the time of the conquest), their lack of understanding of the Indian way of thinking, and their deep hostility to the native religion, which they considered to be inspired by the devil.
His last film, Happy-Go-Lucky, tilted the tone to the "sweet" end of the bittersweet spectrum; Another Year takes us in the opposite direction, and to my ear, the neo-Dickensian cartooniness of his language, perceptibly normalised in recent films, is here lessened still further.
Within the context of studies of immigration, the use of skill mismatch is particularly advantageous as language abilities should be encompassed within individual responses, thus lessening the impacts of unobserved bias within the measure.
Vera loves language and sometimes immerses herself and us in it to the point where emotional impact, the raw moment of terror, is blurred or lessened.
More often, it lessened it.
