Sentence examples for lessened the damage from inspiring English sources

Southend lessened the damage with a late Nicky Bailey goal but by then it had ceased to matter.

While the Mozambican government's flood plan, announced last year, may have lessened the damage, Malawi was caught off guard.

Promptly giving him oxygen could have lessened the damage from a heart attack and eased his pain.

Keatley lessened the damage by punishing Clément Ric for collapsing a scrum, his 25th-minute penalty going over off the right-hand post.

Slower, more rational development would have lessened the damage to the environment, given Native Americans a chance to adapt to conquest and perhaps saved thousands of lives.

For instance, the Indonesian tsunami exposed the destruction of natural resources (forests, reefs) that might have lessened the damage; Japan showed us, among other things, a government in thrall to the nuclear industry.

The White House, the Justice Department and the Pentagon have been trying to tinker with the Levin amendment to lessen the damage.

The question of what can be done to lessen the damage is vexing and gets into difficult questions of whether to limit the migration of skilled workers.

What if the power company could have sent in robots early in the crisis to lessen the damage, and now to clean up the irradiated dead zone?

After an intense debate, the assembled countries resolved to search for ways to lessen the damage of what they called increasing rates of emigration.

A more accurate term is "mitigating risk" – taking measures that will lessen the damage and loss of life in future events.