If there's anything to conclude, it's that the hits don't rely on star power – a diminished force these days – to dig them out of a hole.
Rebecca Traister, author of Big Girls Don't Cry, a fascinating study of sexism in the 2008 campaign, observed: "It was easier to embrace this woman in a state of diminished power, once she had lost the big prize.
When optimising successful RoPax design, a compromise is always made between a light and compact hull geometry with diminished power requirement whilst providing substantial car and passenger capacities.
Furthermore, health policy research came to be perceived as a threat by the Ministry of Health, in the context of its diminished power to steer the health sector as a whole.
For the first time in 300 years, we would become a diminished European power.
A remote monarchy from a diminished European power is no sort of threat to countries that are in all other regards properly independent.
translates into a diminished bargaining power for the Greek side," said Yanis Varoufakis, an economics professor and blogger at the University of Athens.
The dichotomous variables were entered into the model if their prevalence was at least 10%, to avoid unstable estimates and a diminished statistical power.
In yet another move on the chess board yesterday, Steven Sanders of Manhattan, chairman of the Assembly's Education Committee and a close ally of Mr. Silver, said that a board with diminished powers was indeed a possibility.
