Sentence examples for lessening power from inspiring English sources

In addition to the recession, last summer was very cool historically lessening power demand for cooling.

Improving gender equality and lessening power imbalances with men is an integral part of achieving reproductive rights (16), a relationship recognized by the Millennium Development Goals.

The Chinese government's decision this month to import more coal in order to lessen power outages — and control rising coal prices — ensures that blending will increase rapidly.

Before this, person-portable gas chromatographs either operated isothermally at relatively low temperatures or at ambient temperature to lessen power demands, but several person-portable gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC MS) instruments capable of temperature program operation have become available in the past ten years based on this heating method.

Private enterprise has been brought even deeper into the heart of the public sector, not with the aim of lessening the power of the state but to provide ministers with weapons to bully the traditional civil servants.

The writer Colm Toibin says that McGahern has been enormously influential "in that he has established the notion of a small place becoming a whole world and sticking to that throughout a writing life without in any way lessening the power of his work or its appeal.

No. Britain has two options right now: a period of austerity to appease the markets even further, as this government is doing with its cuts and market reforms in public services; or a period of austerity to get out from under the markets, lessening their power by becoming less reliant on their money.

It would also create a separate career path for MPs, lessening the power of patronage enjoyed by party leaders, which is weakening Parliament's ability to hold the executive to account".

At the same time, new powerful chat apps like Kakao Talk are wedging themselves between Google's Android platform and domestic game developers, lessening the power of local studios.

Every time you lose money, you have eroded your principal, thus lessening the power of compounding, which Albert Einstein called the 8th wonder of the world.

Though there are more African-American and ethnic minority women onscreen than ever before, the fact remains that women of color are greatly under- and misrepresented; often falling into "specialty-act" roles or negative stereotypes, lessening their power in Hollywood as well as their worth in the industry.