Mechanisation, from the steam engine onwards, lightened the load of manual labour, creating jobs and wealth.
The rain had lightened just a tad when Gonzalez stepped up to the plate on the sixth.
And the government has lightened the social charges paid by employers, to encourage them to create more jobs.
For better or worse, though, the combination of volunteer soldiers, hired guns and Asian creditors has lightened the load.
It does not mean that the overall burden on motorists should be lightened.
The White House has lightened the tone of the debt ceiling debate by joining an online craze known as "Rickrolling".
When he finally turned back to me, his smile seemed somehow refreshed, lightened, as if he had buried some burden in the landscape.
But when biotech valuations soared, in January and February, he lightened up, well before they went the other way in March.
So there's this woman sitting in the foreground, and she has this lightened halo around her in order to accentuate the form.
With the economy still struggling to re-enter the fast lane one might assume that the regulatory burden would have been lightened in 2012.
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He said it was that treatment -- not a once-rumored desire by Jackson to be white -- that lightened his skin over the years.
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Neither side, however, may be ready to assume that superpower role just yet--and not only because the burden of history may be lightened this week.
Your struggles, no matter what, can be lightened with this technique.
He spoke to Americans with an optimism that lightened their task.
The central banks of China, India, Russia, Thailand, South Korea etc have increased their gold holdings, while hedge funds with leveraged golds positions have lightened up.
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But broadly speaking a detox is when changes in diet are made so the load on vital organs such at the kidneys and liver are lightened.
In short, Dr Kitzhaber has lightened one of the blemishes on America, which is that more than 40m of its citizens have no health insurance at all.
Any individual who had a genetic mutation that lightened his or her skin (and eyes) would absorb more sunlight, boosting health and the ability to survive and breed.
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On the other side, red plastic slowly lightened into white.
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Deep down, Reagan believed that America offered bountiful opportunity for the average man when government lightened its grip and allowed the magic of human creativity and capital investment to work.
Before the East Room ceremony, the militaristic and somber atmosphere was lightened by Romesha's son, Colin, who climbed the podium and examined the lectern, briefly playing hide-and-seek with the bemused onlookers.
For "conspicuous gallantry ... at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, " Romesha, 31, received the honor at an emotional ceremony lightened by his rambunctious toddler son.
She wasn't much of a smiler, and considering this is a tour about disco, surely one of the most light-hearted, frivolous and fun forms of music, she could have lightened up a little.
Still, the convention's mood lightened in the end.
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So far, the company has built a one-eighth-size prototype to test its design, which consists of a carbon-fibre keel, an envelope made from modern composite materials, half-a-dozen engines, a passenger compartment, and a specially lightened crane.
The result of all this is a sort of primer on current American moviemaking: it starts off hip and loose, lightened by the presence of its young indie stars, but slowly seizes up into mainstream melodrama.
Nonetheless, many worry that Britain's extradition arrangements have become too free and easy, thanks to the legal changes in 2003 that lightened the burden of proof in seeking extradition for 51 countries, including a few rather dodgy ones such as Azerbaijan.
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She could find that place if she needed to, but for now she just lightened her grip on the steering wheel, then stared in contemplation at the recessed Chrysler logo at its center, as if it were some sort of ancient mandala-like emblem.
The cloth is washed in hot water and massaged with the feet, after which the wet fabric is placed on the snow-covered fields for ten to twenty days to be lightened by the sun and the ozone released by the snow s evaporation.
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