While there was no inherent conflict between preserving land and building less expensive housing, they said, mixing the two in the proposition might confuse voters and lessen support.
Ankara wants Moscow to stop bombing its insurgent allies; to lessen support for the Kurds; and to halt the bombing of civilian populations, which drives refugees into Turkey.
Mr. Pataki's strategists have said that while they do not expect to win the black vote -- he received 11percentt in 1994 and 15percentt in '98 -- they do believe that they can lessen support for State Comptroller H. Carl McCall, the Democratic nominee, who is seeking to become the state's first black governor.
If the position of ctenophores was affected by long-branch attraction, we would expect that the removal of outgroup taxa would alter the branching order or lessen support for non-bilaterian relationships [ 6].
The People's Daily article, however, focused on how these summits lessened American support for Japan.
Several said it would be impossible to end terrorism unless the United States lessened its support of Israel and championed the cause of the Palestinians.
To the extent that Fatah, the P.A., and the P.L.O. have been dedicated to a two-state solution, their failures — from liberation to governance to peacemaking — have lessened public support for the desirability or viability of the goal itself.
When he drew fire from the political right for his shift on Iraq, Mr. Murtha said his criticism of the war in no way lessened his support for the Americans fighting in it.
Eventually, the fact that the sanctions affected ordinary Iraqis lessened the support for them, particularly in the Arab world.
At the National Action Network conference, there is no sign that the Smoking Gun's FBI-informant report has lessened his support among prominent politicians.
