Sentence examples for lessened the odds from inspiring English sources

Presenting the decision as a safety-related issue, the astronomers said, lessened the odds that it would be challenged, by, say NASA's Congressional overseers.

In this model, only higher APACHE III scores, the need for renal replacement therapy, liver disease, and surgical admission were risk factors for acquisition of BSI, whereas older age lessened the odds of a diagnosis of BSI.

History shows that a tough but measured military response to Iranian harassment may lessen the odds of a much bigger clash down the road.

It is random and it is chaotic, and even if your reasonable behaviour lessens the odds of your being hurt or killed, it guarantees you nothing.

He said that Washington, eager to lessen the odds of accidental war, is actively working with Moscow to help Russia improve its early-warning systems.

He could very much use the momentum of a big victory in Florida to help lessen the odds of an upset or two.

Worries That Real Estate Will Go Way of Dot-Coms The parallels between the way that real estate-crazed Americans are behaving today and the way they once did toward Internet stocks are raising alarms among many economists -- even those who acknowledge that there are important differences between homes and stocks that lessen the odds of another meltdown.

Plate tectonics, the authors say, promotes biodiversity by producing mountain chains and other kinds of environmental complexity, lessens the odds of extinctions, helps keep planetary temperatures even through the recycling of carbon and makes dry land on which advanced civilizations can flourish.

His group is now sequencing the entire Neandertal genome and in the 21 August issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes the steps taken over the past year to lessen the odds of contamination.

That sets up a counterintuitive situation in which the stock market might react more favorably to weak September jobs data than to a strong report, which would lessen the odds of additional monetary easing.

And that lessens the odds that candidates like Maldonado — or some other moderate, say someone supporting immigration reform or healthcare reform — will surface among the Republican candidates to broaden the party's appeal.