Sentence examples similar to lessening- from inspiring English sources

Admitting to a doping past is Armstrong's first step towards lessening his lifetime ban from cycling.

It might lead to a lessening of the emphasis on audacious creativity and strategic bloody-mindedness that, although it may not redound to the common good, can lead to acts of brilliance that change us all".

And the brutality shows no sign of lessening.

Chris Peters, the managing director of Pork Farms, said: "We are very pleased with the CMA's provisional conclusion that the merger has not resulted, and may not be expected to result, in a substantial lessening of competition.

The presence of food in the stomach slows down the rate of absorption, thereby lessening blood-sugar swings.

A senior Indian official talks of India having a legitimate interest because a Chinese "noose" is tightening on its friends and trading partners around the South China Sea.China's maritime fixation underscores the appeal of lessening worries over its terrestrial borders at least that is the argument that some make in Beijing for seeking an agreement on the disputed border.

Another is to shape the vessel's stern in a way that stops air being sucked into the propeller, where it would reduce thrust by lessening the propeller's grip on the water.

And for all the drug busts south of its borders, experts in the United States detect no lessening of the flow.

Fed by ideology, opportunity and the ready availability of frustrated young men holding their lives cheap the conflagration shows no signs of abating or lessening in its depravity.

It is whether America wants four more years of the Republican philosophy of reducing government and lessening regulations.

Loosening the army's grip on local economies is a condition of lessening its political power.