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Example sentences for: lessening

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The weapon would use the precision guidance technology already common in planes and tanks to deliver rounds that explode in the air above enemy soldiers, thereby lessening their ability to survive battlefield small arms fire by taking cover.
The final analysis discusses the FDA's decision not to exempt small entities from the rule because an exemption for small retailers would shift underage sales to those locations, lessening or eliminating the effectiveness and benefits of the access restrictions.
Examinations of 53 San Francisco bartenders made before and after the implementation last January of California's public indoor smoking ban show, says the medical journal, a substantial post-ban lessening of respiratory troubles as well as of eye, ear, nose and throat problems.
In the Federal Register notice, EPA described lessening risk management plan information requirements as follows:
I agree with Jacob Weisberg's "Not Just Talk" that a national conversation on race that focused on ways of lessening de facto segregation would be a good thing.