"When you start moving from a culture that rewards relationships to one that rewards results, there are people who feel a sense of diminished importance and loss, and that's upsetting and makes them angry".
There were few surprise moves from last season's top teams, which in itself is an indicator of the diminished importance of the draft.
One of the interesting twists to the multiplicity of media now available 24 hours a day, coupled with the diminished importance of religion in most people's lives, the idea of A Big Event, one that you know everyone is thinking about, everyone is talking about, something that will bring a sense of community, is more desirable than ever.
"So the ads are of diminished importance in a social media age, and things like debates become of outsized importance".
Djenné is now an agricultural trade centre, of diminished importance, with several examples of Muslim architecture, including its large, mud-walled mosque rebuilt in the early 20th century.
In addition we find evidence of a general divergence of Pix proteins in Ecdysozoa, which correlates with diminished importance of cilia and flagella and a simplification of centrioles.
And the differences in state law are of diminished importance in respect to a proposed settlement in which the defendants have waived all defenses and agreed to compensate all those who were injured.
Moody's Investors Service said it lowered the rating because it believed that over the long term, the aircraft unit would have a "diminished strategic importance" to A.I.G., and could therefore not rely on its parent's unstinting support.
According to Moody's, the aircraft unit would have a "diminished strategic importance". Moody's cut the rating to B1 -- junk status -- from Baa3.
