Arts organisations are, for the most part, putting a brave face on things, working out how to adjust, not wanting to admit there will be any diminution in what they can do; artists like Alexander Kelly will find ways to make art because that is their life's calling.
In the quarter century that I have been making shows for the BBC, its management has swelled in direct proportion to the diminution of programme budgets.
She was not arguing that the EU's remit should be trimmed.Britain could nonetheless secure a much lesser diminution, perhaps to gain freedom from some aspect of EU labour or social law.
This is leading to the wholesale diminution around the world of libraries that care for bound books and make them available for readers, an extraordinarily short-sighted policy.In fundamental scholarship (which is what most learning and secondary research is based on), the library is the scholar's laboratory.
Now that the speechless blockbuster is over, Ms Abramovic seems to find particular joy in talking, with no diminution of her powerful presence".Ideas can come anytime, anywhere, while I am making this gazpacho or going to the bathroom," she says as she chops tomatoes from her garden.
They also feel that the power Russia has recovered has to be demonstrated to be real and preferably demonstrated to the diminution of America's.
One measure of his stature on the world stage will be the sense of diminution of both those gatherings without him.
As a result the subsequent announcement that the British army is soon to remove or close several security installations including a lookout post in the republican heartland of South Armagh and contentious surveillance posts on top of two blocks of flats in Belfast drew only a muted response from unionists who would normally greet any diminution of the army's presence with outrage.
It is true the weakest must go first: the worst factory must be closed, the poorest mines must be laid by, and the worst ship must be laid up first; and then follow the next in degree; but the moment a little diminution of supply lessens the loss, a portion of the idle start afresh into competition.
Second, councils fear a further diminution of their powers.
This literal diminution of his stature can reduce his metaphorical stature, too.
