Sentence examples for lessening state from inspiring English sources

But economically speaking, the party opted to shift to the right, with policies aimed at lessening state intervention, said Ellakuria Bastida.

These constitutional restrictions have unquestionably lessened state borrowing; in so doing they have, perhaps, reduced waste, but they have also sometimes prevented urgently sought improvements.

It is one thing to convince his colleagues of the money-raising, EU-placating benefits of a privatisation campaign that will lessen state holdings in some 13 companies, from Air France and Renault to the totemic Electricité de France.

He called again for lessening the state's harsh mandatory sentences for drug crimes, a hot issue among minority voters.

He supports a move to switch New Jersey's presidential primaries from February back to their traditional June date, potentially lessening the state's influence on nominations.

He recently convinced rebuilding authorities to hold a public hearing about the planning effort in the state, and he could be reluctant to do anything to lessen the state's influence in planning the memorial.

These findings suggest that women who participate in prenatal counseling and testing may be subject to experience distress and unrealistic perceptions of their risk and may benefit from interventions designed to lessen these states.

But it is certainly not going to do so at the expense of developing nuclear weapons—or of lessening the repression and state violence by which it stays in power.

But in the past decade or two employers have become less keen on staff being away for military training, and the networking advantages have lessened.Because the state needs fewer soldiers, dodging the draft has also become easier.

A recent British Social Attitudes survey found that people's perception of benefit claimants as a drain on the state lessened considerably when they were told how low out-of-work benefits really are (£51.62 per week for a single person under 25).

Wang established local militias that could aid the official standing army and lessen the constrained state budget expenses for the military.