The creation of a more federal Britain, devolving tax-raising powers, will entail the recasting and diminution of the Treasury.
Worked up from Polaroids, their bodies tend to normal scale at the top and diminution at the bottom.
It — like the other two films — offers a peculiar blend of glorification and diminution, replacing the creative drive with the commercial one, the artist with the celebrity.
Increase in demand, increasing in complexity and diminution of funding is pushing safe care out the reach of the CQC and the public.
Behind Door No. 2 is a gradual decline and diminution as rivals like Apple, Google and Microsoft devour most of the market; to some degree, they already have.
Just as significant is the substitution in the title of 'girl' for 'women,' a categorical displacement (and diminution) that also shifts the emphasis from the crime (and criminals) and places it on Salander's slender back.
The days and nights bleached out by boredom and diminution are more visible on the faces of others — in their measured gestures, in their silly and furtive little jokes.... Just as before, he neglects to notice the minute changes in products, prices, jargon — the mute subtexts of everyday life, the gray fog into which more and more of them are vanishing...
Over the last three years as president of the AHRC, I have become increasingly concerned about the decline in the effectiveness of parliament and diminution of the role of the judiciary and the corresponding increase in executive discretion, all too often exercised without independent scrutiny.
The decision by the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court noted the community opposition, but said the zoning board's finding that the expansion would be detrimental to the area due to increased traffic, noise and diminution of air quality were not supported by substantial evidence.
The days and nights bleached out by boredom and diminution are more visible on the faces of others — in their measured gestures, in their silly and furtive little jokes.... Just as before, he neglects to notice the minute changes in products, prices, jargon — the mute subtexts of everyday life, the gray fog into which more and more of them are vanishing..
Andrea Gabrieli and other Venetian composers often wrote ricercari based only on one theme treated extensively in the manner of the later fugue e.g., by stretto (playing the theme against itself with repeated, closely spaced entrances) and augmentation and diminution (playing the theme in longer or shorter note values).
