"not be lessened" is a valid phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe something that does not diminish or reduce in intensity over time. For example, "His passion for life did not be lessened by his advancing age."
And as our planet adds another two billion people over the next 25 years, the dangers, complications, and human demands will not be lessened, but rather heightened.
"I hope the literary riches which we are seeing arise in Asia and Africa will not be lessened by the assimilation and the westernisation of these authors," he added later in his interview with Sabine Audrerie.
An editorial voice in news stories adds credence to the frequent charge that the Times' news reporting often displays a liberal bias — a critique that will not be lessened by the elevation of a woman brought up in a liberal-Democratic household on the West Side of Manhattan who worked for liberal Southern Democrats and wrote a book asserting that Clarence Thomas probably lied.
If you earn or save a dollar, the value of that dollar should not be lessened because of political mistakes.
Seventeen years have passed since he left, but you sense those efforts will not be lessened now he's back as the boss".
If, however, a transplant truly has enhanced the moral status of the chimeric research subject, then in whatever sense we humans "deserve" our special status, it now does as well, and so the value placed on human moral status will not be lessened.
Assad's ability to wage war has not been lessened, the rebel forces arrayed against him are in no better position, and the civilian population remains at risk of bombing with the conventional weapons that have done nearly all of the killing in this war.
"The women's coverage won't be lessened in any way," he said.
The problems that obese children face, like hypertension and bullying, won't be lessened by ignoring them.
But that doesn't mean penalties will be lessened for private dealers who persist in the black market.
By treating digraphs in the plaintext as units rather than as single letters, the extent to which the raw frequency distribution survives the encryption process can be lessened but not eliminated, as letter pairs are themselves highly correlated.
