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Although all the major composers were church trained and fully cognizant of modal structures, a rapidly increasing use of chromatic tones in the 16th century lessened the influence of modal sonorities.

You've rediscovered things about yourself that you can be proud of, lessened the influence that the opinions of others have on your self-image, found time to track your achievements and center yourself every day, and learned that you can say no without dire consequences.

The rules are intended to lessen the influence of money in city politics.

He took steps to liberalize French rule in the region, increasing the administrative role of the Vietnamese court and lessening the influence of the military in civil affairs.

That is a sound idea that could lessen the influence of high-pressure lobbying — by drug companies, insurers, hospitals and doctors — that inevitably drives up costs.

Those results have strengthened the hand of racing industry figures who are pushing to lessen the influence of drugs, both legal and illegal, in racing.

"The intent of nonpartisan elections is to lessen the influence of political parties in the nominating process of candidates at election time," said Paul Elliott, a spokesman for the commission.

Mr. Obama also said that he would seek to lessen the influence of politics in the Federal Emergency Management Agency by giving its director a fixed term, similar to the structure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

They found instead that by the early 1970s the accusation of pandering was being used deliberately by prominent journalists, politicians, and other elites as a means of lessening the influence of public opinion on government policy.

Unlike Mr Miliband, the new leader will be elected under a one-member, one-vote system lessening the influence of trade unions and members of parliament in deciding who wins.

Mr. Maliki has said he does not support changing the constitutional powers to lessen the influence of the prime minister, but with his nomination by most Shiite lawmakers now in hand, he has indicated a greater willingness to accommodate Iraqiya in a new government, American and Iraqi officials said.