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Cooperating with Assad is also the only feasible way, at present, to lessen the humanitarian nightmare in Syria.

We ask that you lessen her pain and therefore lessen the pain of all humanity.

Each 6000kg sculpture is lowered to the seabed where it is drilled into the substrate to lessen the effects of turbulent weather.

But getting cyclists to don a hard-shelled helmet, which can lessen the risks of serious injury, has been a global challenge.

The company hopes the change will lessen the weight load for not only the pilots, but the planes.

Alone the supreme Self in him looked calmly on, seeming to lessen the part that trembled and knew fear.

The recognition did not lessen the reality, the poignancy of the revelation by any suggestion or promise of instability.

The wind now began to lessen; and, for fear of being becalmed, I was anxious to get an offing.

If fortune frowns he may lessen his crop but never his attachment for the plant.

The crop supplied more tobacco than was needed, but no one man would cease to plant it, or lessen his crop for the general good.