Sentence examples for somehow lessen from inspiring English sources

"We were hoping the repayment of the money would somehow lessen the criminal outcome of the charges," he said.

Because earlier, higher estimates had taken hold in the public's consciousness, some fear that the lowering of the official count might somehow lessen the scope of the tragedy.

The authors suggested that aflatoxins either contribute proteins that help H.I.V. reproduce or somehow lessen the numbers of the white blood cells that the virus targets, making its attack on the immune system more potent.

And the flamenco at the core is the new sort, in which the fast, popping precision of jazz-fusion chops are all important; the purely professional touches somehow lessen the street-realism.

If the U.S. develops a system to protect America and its allies from terrorist missiles, goes Blair's perverse notion of deterrence, it will somehow lessen the value of nuclear weapons held by Britain, which is not a terrorist nation.

Mitt Romney pledged to fight for a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, hoping his newfound conservatism would somehow lessen evangelical resentment of his Mormon faith.

But I think it would be very presumptuous of me to say without me she can't win or she's somehow lessening her chance to win.

As it happens, the new Alt Berlin didn't feel like the old Alt Berlin: the regulars were different, the potato salad had been replaced with sourdough bread, and the fact that the bar was now located next to the head offices of the BND, Germany's intelligence agency, somehow lessened the old establishment's illicit backstreet charm.

Although the algorithm proposed in this article intends to minimize the energy consumption, it somehow lessens the energy balancing problem and may be combined with the existing algorithms dealing with the problem.

It might be objected, for example, that bringing new individuals into existence that have the (previously) distinctive moral status of normal human adults somehow lessens the value of that status for extant humans, as expanding membership in an exclusive club might lessen its value to its already existing members.

"They think it somehow lessens my appeal to hyper-masculine partygoers if I play for more inclusive crowds.