Sentence examples for and the diminution of from inspiring English sources
The Ultramontanists feared that a strong national monarchy would mean the subordination of the church to its authority and the diminution of papal authority.
Too much ignorance about another culture, nonexistent "postwar" planning, shameful acts by some in the military (not all of whom are being held to account), and the diminution of respect for the United States around the world.
People don't like the intrusion into their privacy — and the diminution of their opportunities for tax evasion — and businesses don't like the cost or the alienation of their customers.
The result is a rift between golf's two ruling bodies, a guilt trip for the average golfer and the diminution of golf's most revered icon, Arnold Palmer, who has endorsed the ERC II and thereby implies that golfers should not play by the rules (albeit, the U.S.G.A.'s only).
Indeed the novel occupies a similar place in Mr. Lodge's career as "Exit, Ghost" does in Philip Roth's, and "Villages" does in John Updike's: the book is a veteran novelist's meditation on aging and death and the diminution of youthful dreams.
From Manetti's descriptions it is clear that Brunelleschi had understood the concept of a single vanishing point, toward which all parallel lines drawn on the same plane appear to converge, and the principle of the relationship between distance and the diminution of objects as they appear to recede in space.
The main differences are in the opposite orientation of life, in which up becomes down and right becomes left, and in the diminution of all things possessed by the elflike creatures.
When Charles blasts modern architecture, he is essentially blasting the historical processes set in motion by the industrial revolution, and lamenting the diminution of his royal power in the world that it brought about.
However, a systematic exploration of respiratory function in January 2000 showed a severe hypoxia and confirmed the diminution of carbon monoxide capacity found 5 years earlier.
For example, where the property rights of employers may be in conflict with workers' rights to safety and health, the diminution of health or a threat to safety lowers one's capacity for action and is a greater loss than some decrease in another's property, wealth, or freedom to control it.
This may be due to a high local microparticle concentration, leading to DXM release in the articular and periarticular zones and resulting in the diminution of inflammation.
