Sentence examples for to substantially lessen from inspiring English sources

Washington has a unique opportunity today to substantially lessen our long-term outlays for interest payments.

The purchases are "unlikely to substantially lessen competition," the Justice Department said in a statement.

Judge Huvelle ultimately ruled for SunGard, writing that the United States could not prove "the proposed transaction is reasonably likely to substantially lessen competition".

At that time, the commission found that Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick, an online advertising company that specialized in display ads, was "unlikely to substantially lessen competition".

Another important U.S. antitrust law, the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, as amended in 1936 by the Robinson Patman Act, prohibits discrimination among customers through prices or other means; it also prohibits mergers of firms, or acquisitions of one firm by another, whenever the effect may be "to substantially lessen competition".

Kohl cites antitrust law, which explicitly forbids mergers that "may tend to substantially lessen competition".

Distributing "low-dead-space syringes" to addicts could substantially lessen H.I.V. transmission among them, a new study has estimated.

Sierra Leone is at the vanguard of a revolution — heavily subsidized for now by international donors — that appears to be substantially lessening health dangers here in one of the riskiest countries in the world for pregnant women and small children.

That the shutdown seems to be over after two weeks will substantially lessen the hardship.

Compact urban growth can significantly reduce the cost of providing services and substantially lessen urban infrastructure requirements.

The health care law encourages such alliances and joint ventures but provides no exemption from antitrust law, which bans mergers that may substantially "lessen competition".