If you see changes, such as lessened emotional expression or suicidal thinking, alert your child's doctor right away.

"The moon had disappeared from the night, and again, with a lessened form, showed itself, while I still remained in the forest.

He faces a murder charge, but few say that the hope of lessened punishment justifies his decision to speak out.

Poor market conditions and weak investor interest have a lessened impact on taxation as opposed to carbon trading.

However, according to Mitterrand, this did not imply lessened concern on the part of Paris for its former colonies.

But others disagreed, citing lessened competition.

This lessened heat transfer from the gun barrel to the recoil mechanism effectively, but was not necessary for the added complexity.

Secondary effects of global warming, such as lessened snow cover, rising sea levels, and weather changes, may influence not only human activities but also the ecosystem.

This lessened world tensions.

He would later receive a lessened sentence after his hearing in 1949 because of his actions regarding the Prominente.

Caucasian business partners of Sakata carried on the resort operations during the war at a lessened state of grandeur.

The phenomenon is also observed in cigarette smokers, in whom there is a demonstrably lessened sensitivity to the effects of caffeine.

This lessened activity was based on the same two factors as the central Pacific, decreased activity since 1995 and the ENSO event.

His shoulders ached almost continually, for most of the skills he was reinstating made use of upper body strength, to compensate for his lessened mobility on foot.

They had to hit at the dragon hard right now; Cadderly had to find some offensive magic that would smash the monster while the dragon was caught in his lessened state.

From that point on, he has worked exclusively with pre-stenciled posters, citing the speedier application of the medium to walls, as well as lessened punishment should he be caught in the act.

Punching too early or too late results in either blocking the move with no counter-attack, or receiving lessened damage from the attack, also with no counter-attack damage to the opponent.

Continued segregation of housing and inner city schools "breeds further inequality for blacks and other minorities - including lessened opportunities for work and the greater likelihood of inferior education," a draft off the study says.

Today happened to be one of the cold days, although Riker wasn't sure how much of it was the air and how much was simply his lessened resistance to harsh climate at that particular moment.

Despite complaints such as lessened interactivity compared to previous games and poorer graphics, publications including Macworld, Computer Gaming World, and The Washington Post judged the game a fitting end to the series.

"In fact, if foundations step up to problems now and fund solutions at a faster spend-down rate, there will be a lessened future burden," he said, "and it will be less costly in both a social and monetary sense."

The group, the New York State Independent System Operator, titled its new report "Power Trends," instead of the previously titled "Power Alerts" to reflect a lessened state of urgency, the group's president, William J. Museler, said.

Maybe the effect was beginning to lessen, he thought with hope.

But it may lessen when the problem is more personal.

Sometimes these side effects lessen after a month or two.

"At least I could play for you and lessen the effort."

And if it can, does that in some way lessen the experience?

No time or distance, however, would ever lessen his interest in her.

The interest in us did not seem to be lessening at all.

To me it would seem their problems getting food have lessened.

The look of concern on her face did not lessen.

How long does it take for the hurt to lessen?

It would do nothing to lessen the pain in me.

Yet this knowledge does not lessen the pain of death.

She can take another's pain into herself and lessen it.

But it was not clear why the violence might have lessened.

I know it's a private party, but is there any way we can lessen the costs?

I knew the pain would lessen but never go away completely.

A long moment later, he saw some of their rage lessen.

In time, she felt the intensity of the need lessen.

But our loss will not be lessened by the state taking the life of another.

At any rate the numbers against us would be lessened.

Without it the impact of her would have been much lessened.

I had thought the hurt would lessen as the years passed.

"We're doing everything we can to lessen the impact on the community," he said.

And because I'm black they're looking for something they can say to lessen my credibility.

To do so would be indeed lessening herself in the eyes of all.