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Example sentences for: lessening

How can you use “lessening” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

CIA officials also began pressing proposals to use their ties with the Northern Alliance to get American agents on the ground in Afghanistan for an extended period, setting up their own base for covert intelligence collection and activity in the Panjshir Valley and lessening reliance on foreign proxies."
The center reportedly now serves more patients with eight fewer full-time staff members and anticipates that savings from the first year of the new outpatient program will be $600,000-with no lessening in the quality of patient care.
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.
Meanwhile, the State Department was focused more on lessening Indo-Pakistani nuclear tensions, ending the Afghan civil war, and ameliorating the Taliban's human rights abuses than on driving out Bin Ladin.
The Goldwater-Nichols example is seen by some as having lessons applicable to lessening competition and increasing cooperation in other parts of the federal bureaucracy, particularly the law enforcement and intelligence communities.