The phrase "allowed to diminish" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing permission or acceptance of a reduction or decrease in something, such as resources, quality, or intensity.
Example: "In this project, we are allowed to diminish our budget if necessary to accommodate unforeseen expenses."
Alternatives: "permitted to decrease" or "authorized to reduce".
Its lack of plot seems to mirror the lack of satisfactory purpose behind the Iraq war itself, but this isn't allowed to diminish the mission of its principals.
True, this gave him freedom to "have a bit of a dart" but that should not be allowed to diminish the second half-century of his Test career.
It has reached the point that some historians even caution that enthusiasm for Adams, the nation's second president, shouldn't be allowed to diminish respect accorded his successor, Thomas Jefferson.
Nothing was allowed to diminish her energy for writing, cooking and leaping from her chair with a scream of "Mamma Mia!" at the folly of the world.Yet her own death was not her chief concern.
If Indians seem less concerned today by this dispute than they were in the 1990s, it's not because the issue does not resonate with them: it is because what was at stake then – Indian secularism – itself has been allowed to diminish in importance by its custodians.
But the size of the production budget should not be allowed to diminish the aura of this potential masterpiece.
Decreasing the particle size, ie matching the size/thickness of porous catalyst particles/coatings to their intrinsic catalytic activity and the applied current density allows to diminish the Thiele modulus and to increase catalyst utilization to the highest possible degree.
The Fourth Estate is a vital component of our system of government and it must not be allowed to be diminished as a result of ignorance or apathy".
But current trends, if allowed to continue, will diminish such contributions.
Wooden barrels would have allowed air to diminish their immediacy.
However, she has neither struggled with her new role nor allowed it to diminish her.
