That said, it is interesting that since my wife died, the Mail has laid off, presumably because the importance of cutting me down to size was rather lessened by a personal tragedy that might elicit public sympathy for me.
HJP Facebook Twitter Pinterest Updated at 8.45pm BST 8.40pm BST I think the chances of Annie Clark falling in love with me would have been rather lessened had she seen me eating that kebab.
The original referred to an attempt to lesson, rather than lessen, reliance on aid.
It may not be that simple, legal experts say; the often-misunderstood issue of mental retardation can increase, rather than lessen, the complexity of a death penalty case.
They concluded that a break-up would be more likely to increase, rather than lessen, the opacity of Tyco's accounts.
Working in collaboration with security groups or being seen to "cooperate" with them can politicize health care provision and may stoke conflict rather than lessen it.
Rather than lessening the impact, it reconfirmed for me the movie's genius.
At the Newtown school massacre in Connecticut, the judgment, mostly by the professionals, was that the amateurs were lacking: increasing, rather than lessening, the confusion.
And though the Nets stayed the same, other teams at the bottom of the Eastern Conference playoff hunt were reconfigured with trades aimed at bettering them, rather than lessening future payroll.
Educators have been arguing since last spring that the tests are flawed, and that the achievement gap in New York is widening rather than lessening: in 2013, there was a nineteen-per-cent gap between the scores of white and black third graders in the E.L.A. exams, and a fourteen-per-cent gap in math.
