Sentence examples for only lessen from inspiring English sources

Shortcuts such as superpowers only lessen our accomplishments.

"It would only lessen her own position on the board if she took that position".

In brief remarks at the ceremony, Gov. George E. Pataki spoke for many when he said, "Over time, the wounds to this landscape will be healed, but the wounds in our hearts will only lessen over time".

More important, such an arrangement would only lessen Israel's incentives to make a deal with the Palestinians, as the government would have already won nearly everything that it wanted, through normalization.

"Why bring it to Broadway and subject it to the possibility of adverse criticism, which will only lessen its value?" The show is to open on June 5 at the Maine State Theater on the campus of Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Me.

Therefore, the optimized SPDMFE extrapolation approach (Problem V) could not only lessen the calculation load and spare the operation time in the computing course, but it could also alleviate the truncated error accumulation.

A preseason ankle problem only lessened expectations.

His injury and the resulting controversy only lessened his market value.

Doing so only lessens the value of his own work, which, in its time, had a charm and a purpose.

Which of course he isn't going to do, promising only  "lessening the impact on families during the transition".

Cheap goals when the game was over only lessened the impact of the result, but perhaps the Dockers had an eye to Saturday night, the huge clash against the unbeaten Swans.