How To Use Diminished In A Sentence

He admitted killing her but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility and loss of control. Times, Sunday Times
Since Vanguard stopped flying, airfares have risen in Kansas City and service has diminished.
She noted diminished inflationary pressures and risks from the international outlook. Times, Sunday Times
Although our inner lives have been relentlessly diminished by ecosocial isolation, the antidote lies in recovering awareness of our context.
But the type of deafness I have inherited is associated at first with excessive along with diminished hearing, hypo - and hyperacusis combined. Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 3

Her life became more and more squalid and her expectations diminished.
The UN's clout in mediating war has long been diminished.
While there may be those who claim to be hazzanim or less than desirable candidates, that does not justify the diminished quality of prayer in such lay-led congregations.
The umbilical flow velocity waveform of a normally growing fetus has high-velocity diastolic flow, while in cases of intrauterine growth restriction, the umbilical artery diastolic flow is diminished.
But judges were going to have to be much more proactive if the role of lawyers is diminished. Times, Sunday Times
The effect of the cold rainwater soaking his collar from the inspector's awkwardly held umbrella had diminished. THE LAST RAVEN
And vice associated with prostitution - pimping, extortion and drug abuse - simultaneously diminished.
This suggests a certain diminished tolerance for what is defined as antisocial behavior; Eric Monkkonen, on the other hand, in “A Disorderly People?” A History of American Law
Shield: Or, a diminished bordure Vert, on a chief indented Azure, two fleurs-de-lis of the first.
Kippletringan was distant at first a gey bit; then the gey bit was more accurately described, as ablins three mile; then the three mile diminished into like a mile and a bittock; then extended themselves into four mile or there-awa; and, lastly, a female voice, having hushed a wailing infant which the spokeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering, It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers. Chapter I
Nay, the majesty of kings, is rather exalted than diminished, when they are in the chair of counsel; neither was there ever prince, bereaved of his dependences, by his counsel, except where there hath been, either an over – greatness in one counsellor, or an over – strict combination in divers; which are things soon found, and holpen. The Essays
Diminished prairie dog populations now face the even greater catastrophe of sylvatic plague, an introduced contagious disease for which prairie dogs have little immunity.
He found her in a white cymar of silk lined with furs, her little feet unstockinged and hastily thrust into slippers; her unbraided hair escaping from under her midnight coif, with little array but her own loveliness, rather augmented than diminished by the grief which she felt at the approaching moment of separation. Kenilworth
If that status is diminished, so too will be the ability of US regulators to bully foreign banks. Times, Sunday Times
We wanted it to be friendly, but not too cutesy in a way that diminished the intelligence of the user. Smithsonian Mag
But it is good to hear officially that the threat has diminished. The Sun
William, however, appears to have escaped not only unharmed, but with his appetite for soldiering undiminished.
They exerted great influence in inducing communities to macadamize roads, for which the passing of the stage-coach and the spread of railroads had diminished the demand. History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)
The fact that it was only the second day of his life in no way diminished it's lousiness.
He had the right to have that river run through his land unimpaired and its quality undiminished except where it resulted from reasonable use of the river upstream.
She has flirted with crossover material, but her popular appeal has in no way diminished the admiration of classical fans.
Nor is the role of the mother diminished - partly because women tend to get very involved with their children as soon as they come home from work.
Without him they would be much diminished. Times, Sunday Times
I must have watched the thirteen or so hour-long episodes right through five or six times, with an undiminished pleasure, and undistracted by any sense of discontinuity with the book.
But pressure to eliminate the budget deficit, said Vest, is likely to lead to diminished help from Washington.
It is not news that a man who once scored three triple hundreds in a month likes to bat, but that desire has not diminished. Times, Sunday Times
The effectiveness of this compactional pump diminished over time as void space in the peat gradually collapsed.
But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Arpeggios of diminished 7ths rushing up and down the keyboard are the main - indeed the only - motive in this bravura piece.
And so can schoolchildren who volunteer to participate in athletic programs and whose expectation of privacy in the locker room is diminished.
The whistles on trains are called chimes, usually sounding a diminished 7th so as not to seem cheerful. "You see, their young enter through the ears and wrap themselves around the cerebral cortex."
Also, I had the recent experience of reading Joel Shepherd's C Kresnov novels which are largely the same ideas but much better executed and thus put The Quiet War in diminished light. REVIEW: The Quiet War by Paul McAuley
Speculation as to where the trend of interest rates is ‘really’ going is thus undiminished.
When Nelson famously said, "The Dons may make fine ships; they cannot however make men," after visiting the Spanish fleet in Cadiz in 1793, he was referring not to the quality of Spanish sailors but to the lack of them, for as often as not crews were diminished by disease and other factors. Letters to the Editor
The dry spell quickly diminished our water suply.
With enough delegates already in hand to clinch the nomination, the immediate importance of the primary has been vastly diminished.
Had they not worn different colors, it would have been impossible to tell them apart, and that was very strange in mature men: identicalness diminished with the years. Naked Cruelty
We still don't know the decisive elements that went into that change from an older style of symbolism and writing poetry to the new style — the new style being a new type of visionariness but also a certain intermingling of prosaicness or a diminished fear of the difference between prose and poetry. An Interview with Harold Bloom
Once he found in Grant and Sherman a pair of bulldogs who ignored setbacks and would not let go, his ‘meddling’ diminished.
Nor is there any likelihood of competition being diminished, except in the case of one minor product, titanium dioxide.
He was not expecting great things from himself this week but marriage to a swimsuit model has not diminished his basic instincts. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, even when the disease is diagnosed correctly, the common treatment is just to replace the diminished thyroid hormone, usually with an oral tablet or pill of the thyroid hormone thyroxine (T4 or levothyroxine), a synthetic analog. Dr. Andrew Lange: How Thyroid Medications Can Destroy Your Thyroid
Diseases occur according to increase or dimunition of the stimuli causing increased excitability, (sthenia) and weak stimuli diminished excitability (asthenia). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
With scholarly conversations concerning the economy and the horizon comes the phrase "diminished expectations. The Seattle Times
Such smoothing over of differences, however, would have diminished the powerful sense of otherness that is such a valuable aspect of the book.
Clearance of drugs with a low rate of hepatic extraction is especially dependent on the rate of liver metabolism. 7 Drugs which have low intrinsic clearance rates will have a corresponding decrease in metabolism with decreased hepatic function. 7 Clearance of drugs with a high rate of hepatic extraction will be mostly dependent on the rate of hepatic blood flow. 7 This can be diminished, as mentioned earlier, making these drugs more bioavailable. Elderly
The effect of the lacrimatory factor can be sharply diminished by freezing the onion or submerging the onion in water (diluting the chemical, which is soluble in water) before cutting.
Because psychopathology and diminished mentation can influence food intake, both mental status and cognitive ability should be assessed, particularly in older adult patients.
None the less his reputation as at once the most searching and accessible of contemporary composers has not diminished.
After this idea was posted on the blog, the number of trolls diminished to almost zero.
At the joints he diminished the flesh in order not to impede the flexure of the limbs, and also to avoid clogging the perceptions of the mind. Timaeus
The small differences among various amino acids are diminished further by averaging over the rather similar compositions of globular proteins.
The need for such programs could be diminished if more high school graduates were better prepared for college and a liberal education.
Trouble is, the thickness of the frosty mantle covering the Arctic Ocean has diminished by about 40 percent in the last four decades.
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Nor did they understand how the insulated walls of the cooker diminished conduction and convection of the heat inside the unit.
On account of the solar equation S, the epact J must be diminished by unity every centesimal year, excepting always the fourth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
Newspapers, used to fielding personals, are finding their business diminished by online dating services.
Its mystery somehow diminished life, or did it enlarge it by making life and its purpose more mysterious still.
The mushroom cloud diminished until it was no bigger than a man-sized saguaro, a desert cactus.
The system of Dr. Smith tended to the production of that natural freedom of trade, each step toward which would have been attended with improvement in the condition of the people, and increase in the _power to trade_, thus affording proof conclusive of the soundness of the doctrine; whereas every step in the direction now known as free trade is attended with deterioration of condition, and _increased necessity_ for trade, with _diminished power_ to trade. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished
The cliffs stand high over a river horribly diminished as the dry season flows towards its dramatic climax. Times, Sunday Times
The salience of the local press, often assumed to have diminished during the war, in fact increased dramatically.
Though diminished, the labor movement has played a key role in creating a new progressive political opposition.
Ms. ROSIN: Well, there's a lot of studies done on testosterone and what happens to testosterone, and does it decrease when men are in diminished positions? The End Of The Macho Man?
Indonesia's dignity and self-respect are not diminished by pursuing good relations with Australia.
The new direction was toward shifting responsibility away from the federal government, which indicated a diminished civil works role for the Corps of Engineers.
Eliadis makes another statement that can only be called factually inaccurate: If these longstanding laws were truly a threat, they would surely have diminished freedom of speech in Canada by now. Ezra Levant: February 2008 Archives
The prevailing opinion is that all of them are signs of insulin resistance, which is defined as the diminished ability of a given concentration of insulin to exert its normal biological effect. THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU
Now, though Captain Riga had not been guilty of any particular outrage against the sailors; yet, by a thousand small meannesses -- such as indirectly causing their allowance of bread and beef to be diminished, without betraying any appearance of having any inclination that way, and without speaking to the sailors on the subject -- by this, and kindred actions, I say, he had contracted the cordial dislike of the whole ship's company; and long since they had bestowed upon him a name unmentionably expressive of their contempt. Redburn. His First Voyage
Again, if the shortening of the central axis in the successive stages of hypogynous, perigynous, and epigynous flowers were an indication of preponderant reproduction and diminished vegetation, we should find everywhere some clear indications of this fact. Darwinism (1889)
People don't want the freaking hassles of trying to figure this stuff out: the product is diminished when it can't be easily played on any kind of player.
The assembled company eyed them with wonder; which you may be sure was not diminished, when they began to unrip the linings and the patches of those old clothes, and as the seams were opened, poured out before them a prodigious quantity of jewels. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
And several times in the book a diminished fifth rather than an augmented fourth is called a tritone.
The mainland has diminished to a thin line of green and purple trees, and, closer by, neighbouring islands are underscored by slithers of sand and backed by dense jungle.
However in sympathetic assistance the charge is often reduced to manslaughter with diminished responsibilities, which ultimately carries a lighter sentence.
Altman collaborated with multitrack recording expert Jim Webb to equip the actors with radio microphones, then gave each voice its own channel, to be accentuated or diminished in postproduction. Ann Hornaday discusses sound innovations in 1970s films
‘Cello pans’ are played in sets of three or four; triple cello pans are tuned in diminished chords, and four-pan cellos in augmented chords.
But neighbors say his dire circumstances and what they describe as his diminished mental health make him vulnerable to exploitation. The Seattle Times
In some cases defendants run the two qualified defences of provocation and diminished responsibility in tandem.
He has a passion for gardening that remains undiminished despite painful arthritis in his hands.
Thought I was copping a plea on ... diminished responsibility.
Lateral slopes are weakly costate; the costae are diminished and almost invisible.
There is a satisfaction in turning out of doors a nephew or niece who is pecuniarily dependent, but when the youthful relative is richly endowed, the satisfaction is much diminished. Phineas Finn
He was found not guilty of murder at Guildford crown court on the ground of diminished responsibility. Times, Sunday Times
The mid-South region has seen major crop shifts occur as tobacco production has decreased and dairying has diminished.
It has been previously shown that the expression of integrins is differently diminished in a chain-specific manner in human colorectal cancer.
But the brain power remains undiminished. The Sun
His enduring success reflects hugely on both an undiminished ambition and capacity for hard work. The Sun
Often the quality of the remaining time will be diminished by the treatments themselves. Times, Sunday Times
And the funny thing, as admitted to myself, was that evolution teaches in no uncertain voice that man did run on all fours ere he came to walk upright, that astronomy states flatly that the speed of the revolution of the earth on its axis has diminished steadily, thus increasing the length of day, and that the seismologists accept that all the islands of Hawaii were elevated from the ocean floor by volcanic action. The Water Baby
The dry spell quickly diminished our water suply.
For instance, when the hundred parts are diminished to sixty, they constitute the strong chloric ether of Dr. Warren, and the alterations in that compound are subsequently shown.
The 1977 Homicide Act introduced the notion of diminished responsibility, which reduces a charge of murder to manslaughter.
However, as more and more graziers opt for this market it too will become ‘saturated’ and diminished profits from over supply will eventuate.
We're living in an era of greatly diminished expectations for heroes and further diminished standards for manhood among mere mortals.
The campers 'food supply gradually diminished as the days wore on.
How dispiriting it must be for young Scottish players as talented as Craig Gordon to see their prospects diminished by the unholy alliance of the media and the Old Firm-driven football establishment.
The rationality of the dissenters, their credentials, was enhanced, not diminished by this kind of reaction.
Many critics felt that the sense of likeness gained through the use of contemporary dress diminished gradually as time went by and fashions changed.
The daily grind of life, a demanding family, death of a young, pretty niece due to cancer and no steady job has not diminished his zest for life.
I do think the propensity of Americans to engage in invidious discrimination really has diminished, and diminished to the point of where much of the 1964 Act is unnecessary. The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar
Any girl of beddable age would at once be presumed to be the lowest type of harlot, a foreign devil's harlot and despised as such, sneered at openly, and her value diminished. Noble House
And the passion which drives him to travel across the country seeking out the best beers, wines and cheeses for the shop is undiminished.
His innocence, his undiminished hope, are ultimately inspirational.
I can see no good reason why we should accept our playing a diminished role on the world stage. Times, Sunday Times
Giles Terera's Caliban is no threat: merely disobliging: his "Ban Ban Caliban" riff is diminished by being ironically chanted by two of the clowns as if they were the Andrews Sisters; his rift with Prospero too chummily resolved. Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review
No one else claiming "asbestosis" has yet filed a pulmonology report showing diminished lung capacity. Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas
Consequently, the ability of parasites and predators of the orange tortrix to substantially suppress pest populations is greatly diminished by the use of insecticides.
Not one critic, however, diminished the incredible manual dexterity needed to create them.
Shave from me with sharp razors my lips, my nose, my ears -- ay, and tear out the eyes of me by the roots; and there, mewed in that featureless skull that is attached to a hacked and mangled torso, there in that cell of the chemic flesh, will still be I, unmutilated, undiminished. Chapter 12
Class divisions have increasingly permeated the nonprofit sector in recent years, a development incisively described by Harvard professor Theda Skocpol in her book, Diminished Democracy. Pablo Eisenberg: State of the Nonprofit Sector
The battlefield diminished behind us as we snaked down a sinuous road.
Although our inner lives have been relentlessly diminished by ecosocial isolation, the antidote lies in recovering awareness of our context.
Whiteley is no hagiographer - he can be coldly critical of his subject's blind spots and prejudices - and yet Banham's stature is enhanced rather than diminished by this study, which was no doubt the intention.
She left the portals of decision-making long ago, and has been at it now for sometime with a remarkably undiminished enthusiasm and an equally unflagging intellectual curiosity.
If financial gain and civic betterment are mutually exclusive, the shrinking capital worth of a diminished investment must be gloriously virtuous indeed.
Unfortunately, it looks like the downside wasn't evaluated as thoroughly: Leno's lower ratings at 10: 00 meant diminished ratings for 11: 00 p.m. local station newscasts, an unacceptable price for network affiliates, for whom the newscasts are a cash cow. Jonathan Handel: Mitigation 'Round About Midnight?
It also was observed that the more manganese the iron contains the less readily the percentage of silicium is diminished; and since manganese is more subject to oxidation than silicium, it is capable to reduce silicic acid of the slag or lining to metal, and thus to augment the amount of silicium in cast iron. Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885
The value of wondering about life is not diminished thereby, but the big quest may amount to ‘confronting the fragility, unpredictability and contingency of life and doing the best we can with it’.
And so can schoolchildren who volunteer to participate in athletic programs and whose expectation of privacy in the locker room is diminished.
Then the road got worse, the shade diminished allowing the sun to beat down mercilessly, and the gradient steepened as the corkscrew twists became sharper and sharper.
D was convicted of murder having raised both the defences of provocation and diminished responsibility.
Once the threat has diminished, the part of our bodies known as the parasympathetic nervous system then brings everything back into order. The Seattle Times
Well, I still have a cough, though it's much diminished, yielding ground day by day to a steady trickle of hot rum toddies served steaming at appropriate times.
The neck of the femur is shortened and its angle diminished. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
Another technique involved the upward revaluation to estimated fair market value of any long-term assets, such as land, and the recording of unrealised holding gains, which also diminished deficits.
It is true she never performed above one or two at most; but what she did, she piqued herself upon executing with a degree of spirit, which made all the operators in cotillon steps, and allemands, 'hide their diminished' heels. The Old Manor House
It not, it makes the person being touched feel either old and infirm or diminished and patronised. Times, Sunday Times
A separation of science from religion has also been seen in a diminished authority for the Bible in matters of natural philosophy.
Chronic alcoholic patients may have normal, enhanced, or diminished acid secretory capacity; hypochlorhydria being associated histologically with atrophic gastritis.
She was now in her late seventies, although her blue-rinsed hair, plucked and penciled eyebrows, and imperious manner betrayed a vanity undiminished by the years. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
We wanted it to be friendly, but not too cutesy in a way that diminished the intelligence of the user. Smithsonian Mag
This suggests that reflex mechanisms are diminished during the transition to sleep.
They thus increased their annual grain production rather than diminished it.
After six decades on the world's concert stages, Rosand's artistry and technical brilliance remain undiminished.
At this diminished rate of novel sequence discovery, one can expect to observe a significant gain from enrichment procedures.
New Zealand has been spared, and now radiation has diminished enough to allow this shipload of scientists of all kinds to explore the remains of civilization.
Later presentations may have symptoms of dysuria, hematuria, and straining to void that gradually become more prominent with a diminished urinary stream.
When alcohol or any other substance, introduced into the blood, retards the tissue waste, as shown by the diminished amount of excretory products, it must do so by either diminishing the amount of free oxygen in the blood, by impairing the vasomotor and trophic nerve functions or by direct impairment of the properties of the nuclein or protogen elements of the blood and tissues. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
Its council base is much diminished. Times, Sunday Times
A small telescope will show the main belts and the great red spot that has been looking diminished and faded for some time. Times, Sunday Times
He could not say that imperial overstretch in Iraq inflicted lasting damage on our soldiers and our military infrastructure -- what he called the steel in our ship of state -- and that our standing has been diminished in the eyes of the world. News & Politics
The role of poverty in diminished marriage prospects may be illustrated by comparing various U.S. ethnic groups that differ in average earnings.
The systemic immune effects include increased apoptosis of thymocytes, decreased macrophage phagocytosis, thymic atrophy and diminished allograft rejection.
While he increasingly retreated after 1867 from politics, his intellectual fecundity remained undiminished.
Lifton may have coined the term "psychic numbing," but his own sensitivity and capacity for empathy remains undiminished. Greg Mitchell: New Memoir by Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors, Hiroshima -- and Today
Couple that with the diminished character, intellectual moribundity, and congenital dishonesty of the majority of Congress's members, past and present, and it is easy to grasp why America is in the state it is in. revolt against any health care legislation passed by Congress. The Rule of Reason
Since then, diminished resources have reduced its intellectual quality as well as its students' opportunities.
The leaders have held a tight and undiminished grip on the country, successfully maintaining their theocratic dictatorship with little threat.
But since the favor has been extended to other churches, as well as from other reasons, the number is greatly diminished, and consists chiefly of people in _villeggiatura_ near by and of a few hundred Neapolitan peasants, who with undiminished fervor come to obtain the Pardon, and whose singular performance, called _gran ruota_ (the great wheel), everybody goes to see. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
Identifying herself with the word infertile had diminished her sense of herself as a woman. Wild Feminine
I use the term "social psychosis" because a psychosis is a mental state in which a person shows a diminished or loss of a sense of reality. Douglas LaBier: A Rising "Social Psychosis" in Public and Private Life
The politics of solidarity they ostensibly represent seem to me to be correspondingly diminished.
Boehner and Pelosi wrote that while they are "mindful of the special place their unique experience holds in the memories of the young Americans privileged to serve as pages over the years, our decision to close the program reflects two current realities: Changes in technology have obviated the need for most Page services and the program's high costs are difficult to justify, especially in light of diminished benefits to the House. House to end page program after nearly 200 years
Bulgakov speaks of this work as "kenotic" in that the Spirit "diminished Himself to becoming in His revelation in the creaturely Sophia" (220). The Fire and the Rose
In short, if Plaid drops to third place, and especially if the number of Plaid AMs is diminished, then a continuation of the coalition with Labour would in my view be a strategical error. Archive 2009-07-01
The chance for an all American doubles final was diminished after Gene Mako and Donald Bridge lost to Jack Crawford and Adrian Quist of Evansville Courier & Press Stories
On account of the solar equation S, the epact J must be diminished by unity every centesimal year, excepting always the fourth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
It was first synthesized in 1776 by Joseph Priestley and was named ‘diminished nitrous air.’
His control will be diminished and some power will pass to incoming investors. Times, Sunday Times
Our appetite for organic produce is undiminished, too.
The solido Wilson stared out over the Dessault Mountain Range to the east, where the snow-capped peaks diminished into the bright haze of the curving horizon. The Dreaming Void
He pleaded guilty with diminished responsibility to causing an animal unnecessary suffering. The Sun
Often the quality of the remaining time will be diminished by the treatments themselves. Times, Sunday Times
And some of the suspense was diminished from the knowledge of how certain characters were destined to remain alive and appear in the first book. Archive 2010-04-01
The flood was dammed, the trickle diminished to a drop here and there as though someone had put a bend in the hose-pipe - which, I suppose, in computer terms, they had.
By degrees hay should be mingled with their food, and the quantity of this should be gradually increased while that of the grass is diminished; some carrots cut in tolerably thick slices and a few grains being given occasionally, till the cows have become accustomed to their dry food. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
The appeal of the accident-prone bear remains undiminished after half a century. Times, Sunday Times
On the same judging panel, Paula Abdul, pop star and choreographer, can watch a contestant fumble through a performance and find something consolable in it and can speak such drivel that she's rumored to be "of diminished capacity" when judging. James M. Lynch: Simon Cowell: A True Friend
The threat of nuclear war has diminished.
Pain relief may result from diminished muscle cocontraction rather than from so-called medial compartment unloading.
Once insoluble Abeta deposits are present, arteriolar reactivity is greatly diminished. BioMed Central - Latest articles
a time, though nourished with the same food which increased their growth from infancy, and afterwards supported them for many years in unimpaired health and strength, must be sought for from the laws of animal excitability, which, though at first increased, is afterwards diminished by frequent repetitions of its adapted stimulus, and at length ceases to obey it. Note VII
Functioning of the diaphragm and thoracic musculature may be diminished, contributing to respiratory compromise.
There were differences in foliar nutrient concentrations between burned and unburned sites; differences were most pronounced immediately following the fire and then diminished over the summer of 1997.
Despite the sickly light off the bulb, its luminescence still showed that the color of the image had not been diminished by time. COLDHEART CANYON
Chicago office with the rest of the daily mail, and the halting quality of the lettering on the envelope suggested a slightly diminished fine motor coordination that often bedevils seniors. Andy Shaw: 'Angels' in Search of a Better Government
Why, because at times, an egotist sense of self is so diminished and endemic, its false survival unknowingly depends on thrashing, belittling and insulting others to maintain a continuous sick illusionary story in their head necessary to misleadingly feed and encourage a diminished sense of self. Page 2
Diminished sight has rendered me virtually invulnerable to advertising and marketing.
The older nexus between self-improvement and traditional morality perdures as an undiminished factor in their worldview.
Kippletringan was distant at first a gey bit; then the gey bit was more accurately described, as ablins three mile; then the three mile diminished into like a mile and a bittock; then extended themselves into four mile or there-awa; and, lastly, a female voice, having hushed a wailing infant which the spokeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering, It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers. Chapter I
Other members of the much diminished royal family rallied round and offered their support. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
They are still around in diminished numbers, and probably will continue spreading their roots in the sandy soil as they have for millennia, taking hold for future generations. Alamos: Still a boom to bust town, but with everlasting charm
The king's prestige was diminished, and European powers became wary of intervening on his behalf.
But it is good to hear officially that the threat has diminished. The Sun
Did her diminished lifespan mean that she put the frivolity of sport to one side so she could focus on the things that really matter? Times, Sunday Times
The campers 'food supply gradually diminished as the days wore on.
The horizontal branch passes backward to the folium vermis, greatly diminished in size in consequence of having given off large secondary branches; one, from its upper surface, ascends to the clivus monticuli; the others descend, and enter the lobes in the inferior vermis, viz., the tuber vermis, the pyramid, the uvula, and the nodule. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon
Whites who are eager for minorities to remain educationally diminished. Is the U.S. High School Graduation Rate Worse Than We Thought? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
But our relationship seemed diminished, lessened by the events that had transpired during her disappearance.
Looking at my own situation, if I die early and leave a large bequest "by mistake," that will come when my children still need it, whereas if I live longer and the bequest is diminished, that will be after my children have had time to establish themselves. Defending Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Others are less jaded but believe nevertheless that its popularity has diminished its value.
Their physicality seems further diminished by the glass vitrines within which they dangle, boxes that lend them a disturbingly contradictory sense of hapless menace.
Vidal's fascination with politics is undiminished.

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