"lessening dependence" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when discussing how to reduce dependency on something. For example: "The government is looking into ways of lessening dependence on foreign oil."
Wetland systems are also less energy-dependent, lessening dependence on electrical infrastructure, and require simpler maintenance since the system largely relies on the ecological action of microbes and plants for their efficacy.
"Are we making improvements in lessening dependence on oil?
If successful, the program would be repeated across Putumayo and beyond, lessening dependence on the aerial spraying that will still be used to destroy large coca fields.
A solution to the long-standing Cyprus dispute would open up new, cost-effective routes of transporting energy supplies through Turkey to Europe, thus lessening dependence on Russia.
The federal health care law, which is likely to reduce payments for in-patient care, as well as changing demographics and a lessening dependence on hospitals, are converging into a death knell for longstanding health institutions.
Germany's lessening dependence on the euro area economy appears to have given Mrs. Merkel more leeway to be assertive with her European allies, clashing repeatedly, for example, with President Nicolas Sarkozy of France on issues like Greece and Libya.
It will lessen dependence on government and may encourage people to save more.
Another possible impact would be to lessen dependence on government research grants that finance much of the work at HSPH.
Powering cars with corn and burning wood to make electricity might seem like a way to lessen dependence on fossil fuels and help solve the climate crisis.
In 2005 the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline opened to pump Azerbaijani oil to a terminal in Turkey to lessen dependence on piplines through Russia.
R. Richard Geddes, director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy, said the plan has potential to spur more creative solutions to funding transportation on the local level and lessen dependence on the gas tax.
