Lessening Sentence Examples

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  • The treatment of inflammation of mucous membrane is based upon the same principles as inflammation of the skin, and there too we usually associate means (I) for removing microbes, (2) for destroying them, (3) for lessening the irritation they produce, and (4) for repairing any mischief they have done.

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  • The goldfields of the Yukon, though still valuable, show a lessening production.

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  • Antiviral drugs are available that have some effect on lessening the symptoms and decreasing the length of herpes outbreaks.

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  • The Original Other looked up, the magic lessening.

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  • With basic substances, the chromophoric combination with a colourless acid is generally attended by a deepening in colour; auxochromic combination, on the other hand, with a lessening.

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  • In order to reduce the pulse to its normal rate in these cases, without at the same time lessening the power of the heart, the drug must be given in doses of about two minims of the tincture every halfhour and then every hour until the pulse falls to the normal rate.

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  • The inmates earn their board and lodging by piece-work, for which they are paid at the current trade rates, while by a gradually lessening scale of work and pay they are stimulated to obtain situations for themselves and given time to seek for them.

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  • A production temporarily in excess of the world's demand of several years ago, led to the offering of bonuses for the production in India and Ceylon of green teas, with a view to lessening the black tea output.

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  • The labours of the United States government have much extended and very greatly improved this navigation, materially lessening also the frequency and havoc of floods along the rich bottom-lands through which the rivers plough a tortuous way in the eastern and southern portions of the state.

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  • The one great economic change brought about by the decline of the Roman Empire was the lessening of urban life throughout the greater part of Europe, the closing up of avenues of communication and the predominance of isolated agricultural communities.

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  • In his hatred of idleness, he ventured to suppress no less than seventeen fetes, and he had a project for lessening the number of those devoted to clerical and monastic life, by fixing the age for taking the vows some years later than was then customary.

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  • For the purpose of checking the inflammatory processes and lessening discharge from mucous membranes astringents are employed.

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  • The pack has the double effect of restraining his movements and thus lessening the production of heat, while at the same time it dilates the vessels of the skin and produces loss of heat.

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  • Chronic poisoning by antimony is very rare, but resembles in essentials chronic poisoning by arsenic. In its medico-legal aspects antimonial poisoning is of little and lessening importance.

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  • The average amount of Turkish opium exported is 7000 chests, but in rare seasons amounts to 12,000 chests, but the yield depends upon fine weather in harvest time, heavy rains washing the opium off the capsules, and lessening the yield to a considerable extent.

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  • Finally, from the 4th century the epitomes of Eutropius and Festus served to satisfy the lessening curiosity in the past and became the handbooks for the middle ages.

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  • As the season advances and the flowers yield nectar more freely, visible signs of combbuilding will be observed in the whitened edges of empty cells in the brood-chambers; the thoughtful workers are lengthening out the cells for honey-storing, and the bee-master takes the hint by giving room in advance, thus lessening the chance of undesired swarms. In other words, order and method, combined with the habit of taking time by the forelock, are absolutely necessary to the bee-keeper, seeing that the enormous army of workers under his control is multiplying daily by scores of thousands.

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  • Sorghum and kafir corn are also excellent, and broom-corn fairly good, as drought-resistant crops; the last, which is of lessening importance, is localized in Cass, Saunders and Polk counties.

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  • They both knew he spoke the truth—a steady salary would go a long way toward lessening their money problems.

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  • Isolated high altitude airbursts of the chemical containers will cause the material to disperse as it descends, this lessening concentration and reducing effectiveness.

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  • Continue until the upper anastomosis is has only minor bleeding which seems to be lessening.

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  • There was no lessening of his opposition to " class distinctions and imperialist exploitation, no defection to " the forces of reaction " .

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  • Cooking oils that due to begin emotions thereby lessening star caron butler.

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  • However oil trading contracts have been terminated by the Iraqis, lessening the sympathy vote from the Russians.

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  • You might try gradually lessening the time you let him outside while you're still living at your current home.

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  • It is possible that we familiarize ourselves with these issues we might change our ways whereby lessening the negative effects and shed some positive light on our planet.

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  • However, you can make small changes over time that can help you save money while lessening your environmental impact.

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  • Sometimes instead of lessening the euphoric feelings become more intense, and a person will take risks that can lead to secondary physical symptoms.

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  • Larger ships are less affected by the ocean's waves and cross currents, lessening the possibility of seasickness for many individuals.

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  • Vibration stimulation is useful for giving silent commands, lessening the chance of confusing your pet or other dogs training around him.

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  • You may simply be interested in a change of pace or lessening your responsibilities and stress.

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  • Teens who sleep different hours throughout the week and on weekends may have reduced reaction times and a lessening of their functioning ability because of it.

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  • Healthy habits include proper diet and exercise, both of which can help you sleep better, lessening the occurrence of snoring.

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  • Although symptoms generally get worse during early adolescence, many people with Tourette syndrome experience a lessening of the severity of their symptoms during late adolescence and early adulthood.

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  • Treating the symptoms is always an integral part of lessening the impact of the disease.

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  • Cyclists who experience knee alignment problems and joint swelling may notice a considerable lessening of symptoms when wearing LUST shoes.

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  • Expressing humility by tending to trash, scrubbing toilets and lessening the toil of your teachers is pretty standard and healthful in my opinion.

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  • A Las Vegas wedding can help tremendously with lessening the emotional impact the merging of two families can have upon the kids.

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  • Many believe specific food combinations can actually improve one's health by making digestion an easier process and by lessening the work the body has to do to process foods.

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  • They both knew he spoke the truth—a steady salary would go a long way toward lessening their money problems.

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  • The highway department would periodically close the road and, using explosive devices, create slides in a controlled condition, lessening the chance for a surprising and perhaps deadly run loosed by nature on the unsuspecting below.

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  • The railways are prospering because they are managed with great skill and are doing increasing amounts of business, though at lessening unit profits.

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  • They had torn men loose from the ancestral custom of home to walk in new ways and see new things and hear new thoughts; and some broadening of view, some lessening in the intensity of the old one-sidedness, was the inevitable result.

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  • But this control does not meet the problem of actually lessening the number of vehicles in the main arteries of traffic. At such crossings as that of the Strand and Wellington Street, Ludgate Circus and south of the Thames, the Elephant and Castle, as also in the narrow streets of the City, congestion is often exceedingly severe, and is aggravated when any main street is under repair, and diversion of traffic through narrow side streets becomes necessary.

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  • The new triple alliance had the effect of lessening the demands of those Powers, and of leading to the well-known territorial compromise of 1815.

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  • The assumption explicitly made by General Walker that among the immigrants no influence was yet excited in restriction of population, is also not only gratuitous, but inherently weak; the European peasant who landed (where the great majority have stayed) in the eastern industrial states was thrown suddenly under the influence of the forces just referred to; forces possibly of stronger influence upon him than upon native classes, which are in general economically and socially more stable, On the whole, the better opinion is probably that of a later authority on the vital statistics of the country, Dr John Shaw Billings,i that though the characteristics of modern life doubtless influence the birth-rate somewhat, by raising the average age of marriage, lessening unions, and increasing divorce and prostitution, their great influence is through the transmutation into necessities of the luxuries of simpler times; not automatically, but in the direction of an increased resort to means for the prevention of child-bearing.

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  • At Canyon City it passes out of the Rockies through the Grand Canyon of the Arkansas; then turning eastward, and soon a turbid, shallow stream, depositing its mountain detritus, it flows with steadily lessening gradient and velocity in a broad, meandering bed across the prairies and lowlands of eastern Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, shifting its direction sharply to the south-east in central Kansas.

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  • This modification was the beginning of a gradual lessening of the antithesis of a priori to a posteriori, until at last the a priori forms of Kant have been transmuted into " auxiliary conceptions," or " postulates of experience."

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  • This title of theimperial court was purely honorary, but it attached him still more closely to Rome, though without lessening his independence.

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  • Rostov threw his cloak over his shoulders, shouted to Lavrushka to follow with the things, and--now slipping in the mud, now splashing right through it--set off with Ilyin in the lessening rain and the darkness that was occasionally rent by distant lightning.

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  • Despite the costs of in-home care, for many seniors and their immediate family members and friends, caregivers who come to the home can provide important help in many domains, lessening the responsibilities of all parties involved.

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