As Mr. Albee said recently, "In all the years I've known Lanford's work, he has remained firm in his ambitions, retains his fine ear and has never lessened his scope in order to be 'popular.' I always look forward to his plays, for I know I will always learn something about both craft and ideas".
Time has not lessened the scope of the tragedy in Chernobyl.
Because earlier, higher estimates had taken hold in the public's consciousness, some fear that the lowering of the official count might somehow lessen the scope of the tragedy.
And the Park Avenue Malls Holiday Lighting Project and Avenue Association, faced with a drop in contributions, invested in smaller trees, although they did not lessen the scope of the effort -- nearly 140 trees, from 54th to 96th Street.
Had a market liquidity provider been in existence when the subprime crisis started, the resulting collapse of the credit markets would almost certainly have been restricted in scope and lessened in impact, and we would not now be facing the need to try to save A.I.G. and other institutions.
Together with Whitehead, he was also able to introduce a new axiom, the axiom of reducibility, which lessened the vicious circle principle's scope of application and so resolved many of the most worrisome aspects of type theory.
Most recently, Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain unveiled a "fix" intended to narrow the law's scope and lessen the likelihood that it would produce retaliatory suits against the United States in foreign courts.
With large courses, the tendency would be to create fewer assignments that are larger in scope to lessen the amount of grading.
Rawls has suggested that the scope of this problem of devising an index of primary goods is lessened by giving some primary goods, the basic liberties, priority over the rest.
More often, it lessened it.
