diminution

How To Use diminution In A Sentence

• But it is hard to sustain that insistence on the preservation of the Catholic tradition on the one hand with a total insistence on the diminution of a Protestant tradition on the other.
• In cases of large quantities of pus, as in pulmonary abscess and bronchiectasis, however, no diminution is noticeable. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
• Provision for diminution in value of foreign investment are the number of ready?
• The recent diminution on the international scene of these three nations means less illustrious sides are no longer gripped with a fear factor when facing what have tended to be considered behemoths of the game.
• If the above seems to create an "unfair" windfall for stockholders or short term diminution of tax revenues, raise the capital gains rates. Al Checchi: Government's Travels
• Thus diminution of prostacyclin production and stimulation of platelet aggregation both mediated by lipid peroxides could contribute to thrombosis on atheromatous plaques.
• His interest in counterpoint is shown in a set of 120 canons, which use such techniques as augmentation, diminution, and retrograde motion.
• The result was a one-third reduction in the number of robberies and a general diminution of other anti-social incidents.
• It is known also that the Japan camphor, termed factitious, will evaporate till it wholly disappears, and at all stages of its diminution retain its full proportion of strength; which does not seem the property of an adulterated or compounded body. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
• He explained the rationale for such financing: An article of property, insusceptible of division at all, or not without great diminution of its worth, is sometimes of so large value that no purchaser can be found ... A Back-To-Jefferson Solution For The Housing Crisis