Sentence examples for rather than lessened from inspiring English sources

In Part 2 the factional fighting at court is increased rather than lessened by the arrival of Margaret of Anjou, the new queen, who together with her lover, the duke of Suffolk plots against Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, and his ambitious duchess, Eleanor.

McMurray and colleagues [ 49] performed a large multi-site ethnographic study investigating care transitions for older adults and found that most of the health care professionals involved were using a combination of electronic and paper charting which increased, rather than lessened, the demands on their time.

The original referred to an attempt to lesson, rather than lessen, reliance on aid.

Rather than lessening the impact, it reconfirmed for me the movie's genius.

It may be that debriefing, by encouraging patients to open their wounds at a vulnerable moment, augments distress rather than lessens it.

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.

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.

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.

Elsewhere, abstraction shades into incoherence: "He saw it in the way her eyes left him isolated, a lesson on shouldering what he'd done alone rather than lessening the burden by passing it on, by turning it into a secret she had to share".