Sentence examples for trying to lessen from inspiring English sources

But instead of trying to lessen its reliance on tourism, Mexico is moving the other way.

Mr Arnault is suing Libération.There are already signs that the government is trying to lessen the impact.

Mary McAleese, a Belfast Catholic and Ireland's president, has spent much of her time in office trying to lessen loyalist suspicion of the Irish state.

I know that by drilling locally they are trying to lessen our fuel dependency on the Middle East, but at what cost?

Since September 2000, the agency has also been trying to lessen the humanitarian impact of violence, curfews and closures on the refugees in the West Bank and Gaza.

In the Holy Land case, defense lawyers told the jury that their clients did not support terrorism but were humanitarians trying to lessen suffering among impoverished Palestinians.

And the right policies frequently try to lessen the burden to adapt to change, rather than attempting to stop it.

Amid the whirring drone of the helicopter blades, some soldiers tried to lessen their anxiety by telling jokes; others slept.

He tried to lessen her horror by telling her about the sumptuous bird barbecues of his youth.

The United States, as it tries to lessen its reliance on the Middle East, will benefit if more oil is produced here.

So Pop Warner tried to lessen the number of impacts by reducing incidents in practice, when a majority of the "car accidents" took place, according to Duma.