Sentence examples for lowered rather than from inspiring English sources

He thinks that Peter Tatchell "means well", but should concentrate on getting the gay age of consent lowered rather than "going on about Jamaica or trying to arrest Robert Mugabe.

Japan's obligation, he said, is "to politely offer kind words to the comfort women" — as if they are to be pitied, prostitutes for whom politeness would be a prize; as if they had been lowered, rather than the Japanese military debased.

The Florida restaurant lobby is pushing a bill that would drop the minimum wage for the state's restaurant servers and other tipped employees from $4.65 to $2.13 an hour, creating the rare possibility of a legal wage floor being lowered rather than raised.

In developing countries, where the preservation aspect is even more important because of the lack of a cold chain, treatment carried out in addition to the drying of meat will be somewhat different and in some cases (e.g. intensive smoking over fire) the product quality is lowered rather than improved.

35 It is also intriguing that our data indicated a lowered, rather than increased, risk of suicide in women ≤35 years old when pollen level changed from 0 counts to a very low level (<5), for which we do not know how to explain.

Filipa Sá, a labour economist and academic, found that immigration actually lowers, rather than raises, house prices in some areas.

Building basins, or dry docks, are sometimes used for the construction of very large vessels, because it is convenient to lower, rather than to lift, large assemblies, and this method also eliminates problems associated with launching.

In America, legislative bodies have reduced their own wages lower, rather than augmented them.

The reverse T3 has the opposite effect of T3, blocking the effects of T3 and lowering rather than increasing metabolism.

Selection for translational efficiency is also not to be expected in such a slow-growing species as B. henselae and would act to lower, rather than increase the synonymous substitution frequencies.

It expects them to be 4% lower, rather than flat as previously thought.