Lessen Quotations

Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value - fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value.

What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

I don't know much about climate change. But I'm pretty sure we better figure out what to do to lessen its impact - at least its health impact - and that's not going to happen unless you have a lot of young talent interested in these topics.

I'm proud that LearnVest is creating content that helps expectant moms tackle their finances. As much as possible, we hope to lessen the stress during what is said to be such a life-changing time.

We are proud to be the first in the Pensacola area to achieve this distinction. Certification as a Primary Stroke Center recognizes Sacred Heart's commitment to providing outstanding stroke care that can lessen the potential effects of a stroke.

We're here to talk about ways that we can diversify our energy portfolio. Ways that we can lessen our dependency on foreign oil, ways that we can strengthen energy in Colorado and give farmers a chance to participate in our overall energy policy.

One of the things that has arisen is what can be done to lessen the damage if, in fact, we are now in an era of high (hurricane) activity.

No! You've got to have meaning to the regular season. Right now, the balance is okay. That was my only fear when we moved to 64 teams. I was chair at the time, and I did have some trepidation that we would lessen the importance of the regular season.

If they truly in their heart want to represent their country they should because that's special. If it was something that was every year ... but you never know when you're going to get a chance again. I would never tell a player not to play or you lessen your chance to make this club. It's not going to lessen your chance. All it is, it's going to take us a little longer to get to know them.

I don't think what happened four years ago is going to lessen this event at these Olympics, I think it will have exactly the opposite effect.

What we have is a nice blend of players. We can have a night where a few players are off but someone else comes through for us. Our depth helps us lessen the percentage of us having an overall bad game.

What we have in excess is women. So if you want, we can give a few of those to you, some tens of thousands. Let them go to your place. They will create disasters. That way you can lessen our burden.

Hydrogen holds the ultimate long-term promise for clean and sustainable power. In the meantime, both hybrids and ethanol-fueled vehicles can significantly lessen U.S. dependence on imported oil while reducing the impact on our global environment. The Escape Hybrid E85 program could lead to the breakthroughs needed to marry these two important technologies in production vehicles.

Hurricane Katrina is having a serious impact on the lives of so many Americans and we want to do what we can to lessen its effect on people and families, especially our young people,

I think the productivity numbers you saw this morning lessen the fears in the marketplace about the Fed raising rates.

Our goal is to use (treated wastewater) in solving needs around Sun Valley and Ketchum. And by using that water for irrigation, that will lessen the need to pump water from the ground.

Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.

Respect for each other is a key component of the game and racist comments have no place in cricket. That this is an isolated incident by a small number of people in one country does not lessen the game's resolve to address the issue.

Physicians need to be aware of the potential manifestations of CMI and the need to treat them, and metabolic syndrome is a key example. There's quite a bit of literature on this condition, and there are steps physicians can encourage their patients to take such as increased exercise, stress management and dieting to reduce abdominal fat that can lessen its effects.

That would actually lead to less cell death in Alzheimer's, so that would certainly be something that would lessen the impact of the disease.

Most important, maintain a healthy weight; being too thin or too heavy can lessen your odds of conceiving.

will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in.

We have to see what we can do to lessen the pain,

Today's news is a forewarning for congress and the administration. If we fail to expand and modernize our public transportation systems, the growing gridlock in many urban areas will strangle economic progress and lessen the quality of life.

Those countries buying U.S.-built fighters usually arm them with U.S.-built weapons, although there are exceptions, MBDA is aiming to have its air-to-air missiles integrated with the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), which is being developed by the United States, to lessen this advantage.

The overnight rain will be absorbed by the dry ground and lessen the intensity of the active fire, but is not enough to extinguish the fires.

What we have to do is make sure more people are in that pool of having some opportunity to have some coverage so that we lessen that pressure to increase prices to make up for those losses.

We'd like the thread of history to stay alive, ... Even if the bricks were used for signage along the Centennial Trail, that would lessen the impact of losing the building.

The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'

The day when the alien invade planet earth, human civilization will experience chaos. The first thing we have to do is trying to accept the sudden change in the reality. By that way, we will lessen any disadvantage caused by shocking event.

We lessen our dependency on foreign oil with every kernel of corn transformed to ethanol.

We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation.

We view this announcement as a slight positive as it may lessen some overhang on the DTV shares. However, we believe investors have already priced in $3 billion of buybacks, and GM's shares do not represent incremental repurchases of equity.

We assumed the sewage would lessen the salinity, but at surf sites, that wasn't the case.

We believe our disposition program is tracking well as we have a number of properties under contract or letter of intent to sell at this time. The proceeds from these sales will provide us the opportunity to recycle capital and lessen our need to raise new equity.

This will have a positive effect and will help lessen hostility in the Islamic world to the Americans.

The passage of time does not lessen the importance of reporting.

This reinforces the idea that social support helps to lessen the negative consequences of stress.

The only thing I can't explain is why somebody who was in fear for their life would follow the person who threatened them and not flee, ... That's why I did not call the police soon. It caused me to lessen the significance of this incident.

You can lessen the chance that your boss will make bad decisions that adversely affect you and your career by managing your relationship with the boss. Keep the boss informed about what's going on at work and never forget the pressure your boss is under. Honesty and reliability will win the hearts of most bosses.

There is always damage in cases like these. We have to wait to see how he will react when we lessen the dosage of the medications that are keeping him sedated.

We've got a great opportunity ahead of us ... to institute procedures to lessen the risk of not being able to locate very serious assets.

We don't see a downside, however she performs. Missing the cut will not tarnish any of her achievements or lessen her ability. It takes an awful lot of guts for her to do this. People will admire her regardless of the outcome.

We scored some good goals, and then unfortunately, we had a lot of players that wanted to do a lot of things on their own, and the quality of the play dropped. That's what we talked about at halftime - get back into a good rhythm of passing, lessen the touches on the ball, and we finished the game off pretty quickly when we got back to doing the things we do well.

We are an environmental organization. We do anything we can to lessen our impact.

We want as much federal funding as possible in order to lessen the burden on the state.

Ethanol can provide relief for customers at the pump and lessen America's dependence on foreign oil.

Ethanol can provide relief for customers at the pump and lessen America 's dependence on foreign oil. Plus, these vehicles can run on fuel that's grown in the heartland of America.

Even if it's hard to find teachers you don't lessen the requirements just because it's hard to find them.

The United States is involved, has been involved, will remain involved in doing whatever we can to help these two governments lessen the tension.

The United States can't allow its technology and scientific strengths to lessen because it will affect competitiveness.

The slowing of unit sales will lessen one pressure point lying behind the abnormally high rates of change in median sales prices.

Really, a lot of our share loss this year is a strategy to -- and I think it's the right thing to do -- lessen the daily rental fleet,

Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value -- fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value,

Normally when the winter comes, people lessen their activities and when springtime comes they want to be active again and that's when people get hurt.

This is the first time we have evidence that a drug can actually lessen joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis. It hasn't been clear that drugs can do this.

The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff.

This bill, more so than any provision in the recently-enacted energy bill, will lessen that dependence,

This merger would give General Dynamics a permanent monopoly in nuclear submarines and would substantially lessen competition in surface combatants.

There was selling for weeks in anticipation of something possibly happening. Just the risk of something happening made people want to lessen their exposure.

There was no program in place to defray the financial costs for patients who need to travel from all over North Dakota to receive cancer treatment, ... I am grateful to Gap for providing the resources to bring this program to life, and look forward to working with the amazing staff at Altru Cancer Center to implement the Filling the Gap program and lessen the financial burden and emotional stress of travel for the patients.

Its hard to lose any game and especially one that's so close. The fact that we didn't come away with the win doesn't lessen what these guys did last season at all. They've been a classy, hard-working bunch all year long. They played with a lot of courage and a lot of determination. I couldn't be any more proud of them. I wouldn't feel any better about them even if we'd won that game.

I want to lessen his workload this year, whether it's pitch opening day or work after him, so he doesn't have to do what he did last year. That's the main goal.

It won't solve everything, but this bill can hopefully lessen the impact of the hurricanes and rising fuel costs,

Once is switches to snow, it's a stored form of precipitation and that helps lessen the danger of flooding a little.

Around mid-2005 we started to see the growth in the replacements that had increased, begin to slow and it'll continue to lessen as we move further into 2006. We expect the average system price to continue to fall and though Q4 unit numbers aren't strong, there remains strong pricing pressure.

In Europe, we are optimistic that lingering concerns about beef will continue to lessen as the year progresses, ... We continue to educate our European customers about McDonald's high food safety and quality standards.

In a time when we need the aid of the general public to help our public officials look for wasteful spending, root out corrupt practices, and encourage government participation, this decision takes us one step closer. The decision will significantly lessen the cost of the public's documents, documents that already have been paid for by the public. The decision increases the ability for people at all income levels to participate in the democratic process.

If you compress payroll, lessen payroll disparity, have a little restraint at the top, give more at the bottom,

Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the

In the long term this is going to be a setback for the market ... It is likely to gradually lessen trade by individual investors.

Interest-rate support for the Australian dollar will lessen quite substantially as the year progresses. We see a steady outlook from the Reserve Bank of Australia and a higher Fed rate.

International migration to the U.S. is going to continue even with the economic changes taking place now. It's probably not going to lessen but instead increase in the future.

If ICE First can lessen that number significantly, it has accomplished one of its primary goals - making people feel more secure and safe by knowing that medical personnel have the information they need to do their jobs more effectively.

If, coming out of this, ... New Orleans gets to lessen the burden of the social problems that its city and state government are supposed to solve, that would be amazing.

The flexibility in the cost savings is in the elements that make up the $8.9 million, including work rules and other initiatives that can lessen the pay cut impact.

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.

You've got to realize there are 31 other teams in the NFL, so you can't get discouraged and let your play lessen in any way, ... Everything you do (in practice) is on film and people are going to watch that film, so you've got to be prepared to play even if this is not the place where you'll end up playing.

The city takes it seriously. We can't stop a hurricane, but we can lessen the impact.

The market is likely to find enough underpinnings in the FOMC statement to lessen fears of Fed tightening in the next several months.

The lessen is that sometimes the parts are worth more than the whole.

My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.