And key to that stasis, to the maintenance of the status quo, to a diminution of opportunity for 93percentnt of the population, is Oxbridge.
"There's been a diminution of respect for the office of the presidency, and it's not just here, it's abroad," he said, adding that voters' concern about that "is going to manifest itself on Election Day".
In the end, the choice will have to be between another late bailout from Treasury funds, an intensification of the rationing of access which is already evident in rising waiting times, or a diminution of quality, for example by allowing some slippage against the strictures on staffing which were introduced after the deadly scandal at Mid-Staffs.
This is one liberal who believes that amnesty (or whatever euphemism you prefer), in addition to fostering a diminution of respect for the law, will serve as a signal to millions of others that if they can get here, they are home free.
Ed Miliband now faces the prospect of being forced to accept a diminution of power for Labour MPs in Scotland.
"That could result in a claim by the tenant for a diminution of services," Mr. Abramson said.
Obama's critics blame him for a diminution of American prestige — of the country's influence, respect, and power.
Fewer phycobilisomes, the main light-harvesting complexes for PS II in the vegetative cells [ 75], could account for a diminution of O2-evolving activity of PS II in heterocysts.
Ross and colleagues proposed that a dispositional trait of Asian ancestry is responsible for a diminution of 5α-reductase activity, and that the lower prevalence of prostate cancer among Japanese men results from decreased exposure of prostate tissue to DHT.
We believe the behavior of the posterior cells derives from a diminution of en activity, responsible for posterior identity and for maintaining the A/P border (Morata and Lawrence, 1975).
