1.   But new drugs can lessen the damage.

2.   But you can lessen the damage if you at least explain why you did what you did, and what opportunities their new role will offer.

3.   He favors regular and mandatory inspections of personal outdoor spaces to help lessen the damage that can fester undetected for years.

4.   Lives were surely saved by evacuations and property damage surely was lessened by people who battened down the hatches and brought their boats to safe harbor.

5.   So hitting the cancer from different angles lessens the damage to innocent cells that happen to be in the path of the beam.

6.   Sometimes card issuers are raising rates, lowering credit limits, or doing both in a pre-emptive move to lessen damage from the recession.

7.   To save lives and to lessen urban damage, the National Science Foundation is bankrolling a new consortium of quake research facilities.

8.   Government officials contend the Imataca plan actually would lessen ecological damage because major mining companies would bring in sophisticated technology.

9.   Government seeks to lessen pollution damage to statue.

10.   Lurie said Eaton and proposed amputating the finger, but another doctor lessened the damage with a second operation.