Sentence examples for a diminishing influence from inspiring English sources

At a time of growing executive power and a diminishing influence for parliament, and in particular following the terror attacks of 9/11 in New York and 7 and 21 July 2005 in London, the Labour government adopted an increasingly authoritarian approach.

The Turkish government also knows that its policy since 2011 of getting rid of President Bashar al-Assad has failed and that it has a diminishing influence in events in Syria as Russia, the US, France and possibly, in the near future, Britain increase their military involvement in Syria.

The top-down planning and administration of housing development enabled more efficient housing supply and first mass housing schemes, but consequently a diminishing influence of local communities.

The presence of this surface layer has a diminishing influence on the overall mechanical response of the particle for increasing particle sizes.

The unionized portion of America's private sector is now 8%, down from 24% in 1973, not because unions have exerted a diminishing influence on the economy, but because the industries they've infested were slowly ruined, forced to shrink, incentivized to flee to friendlier nations, or went bust.

Within the putative moral cognition network, higher moral ability for justice issues was also associated with a diminishing influence of the pSTS and rACC on PCC activity, suggesting that moral development is reflected in the level of biasing of PCC functions such that higher ability is related to more independent functioning of the PCC.

Excessive light scattering by the suspended particles also has a progressively diminishing influence on the reaction rate.

In other words, there is no obvious clear distinction between simple Mendelian and complex traits: genetic diseases represent a continuum with diminishing influence from a single primary gene influenced by modifier genes, to increasingly shared influence by multiple genes".

"The fact that most of the secretary of state's wilder proposals appear to have been watered down, dumped or delayed by the government, of which he is a member, is a reflection of his diminishing influence and lack of clout," said the shadow culture secretary, her voice bristling with contempt.

We are thus witnessing a situation of the diminishing influence of the national culture on many people whose habitus is increasingly more plural, if not hybrid, and whose lifeworld has been transformed by anti-authoritarian and post-material values.

This is about rich conservatives seeking to exert unlimited influence on our political system, and employing far-right Republicans who are animated, to varying degrees, by an innate hostility to this president, fear of diminishing influence and a disavowal of disagreeable truths.