But tonight left him lagging in delegates and with a diminished ability to make that case, failing to meet his own campaign's best-case scenarios.
Underground needle exchanges are less effective than legal ones because of the threat of arrest and a diminished ability to raise money.
But the insurgents have a diminished ability to intimidate hospital staffs into caring for them directly and dwindling support among fellow Sunni Arabs, including doctors, the officials said.
This can be particularly useful in patients who have an impaired immune system and a diminished ability to fight viral infections, especially those with AIDS.
Scientists have found evidence in the past of genetic problems with hatched salmon, including lowered genetic diversity and a diminished ability to thrive in the wild.
But the plan backfired, and Mr. Pastrana was left with a poisoned relationship with Congress and a diminished ability to govern, after legislators suggested that the president's job be put to a vote as well.
As Cindy's story shows, it is also an inability to discriminate one sound from another because of a diminished ability to register high frequency sounds, or, in Cindy's case, low-frequency sounds.
Ms. Hastings said that this decline, which is almost entirely due to a drop in corporate donations, means a diminished ability to help finance classical music programs for poor schools.
While hog and pork prices have rebounded, industry analysts were unconvinced that consumers had overcome their economic jitters, and warned that a slowing economy would leave Smithfield with high feed prices but a diminished ability to cover those costs.
Barres says, though, that engineers seem to have a diminished ability to understand biology, in all its messy glory.
Conversely, following the concept of organizational inertia, installing new management after distress has prevailed for several years, resulting in a diminished ability to react and lower turnaround probabilities.
