Sentence examples for as a diminution from inspiring English sources

None of us who had finished behind him saw his action as a diminution of his victory.

Ukraine and Turkmenistan expressed reservations about the commitments, however, regarding them as a diminution of national sovereignty.

If it might strike some visitors to the Met as a diminution of their pleasure to be surrounded by hundreds of ear-budded visitors, Campbell is not among them.

As a result, even though placement of this hardware met with some public opposition in both countries (in the Czech Republic more than in Poland), backing away from the system's implementation is interpreted broadly as a diminution of the strategic relationship.

While this demotion by three places compared with GBD 2013 [8] may appear as a diminution, this is not so: successive iterations of GBD, increasingly better informed, have shown total YLDs attributed to headache disorders rising consistently.

Our results support the conclusion that disuse causes a suppressed osteoprogenitor cell population as well as a diminution of osteoblast recruitment during early reambulation.

John Banville Last weekend was the sixth birthday of the Port Eliot festival; it might have lost its "literary" prefix, but that is a reflection of the growing number of musical, culinary and fantasy performances as opposed to a diminution of the festival's literary qualities.

In addition, the addition of Ni induces a slight increase of the WS2 lamellas stacking and a diminution of their lengths, as well as an increasing sulfidability of WOx phase by about 20%.

If Burke had a forward-looking mind, and believed that human nature both required and led to development, he did not think that progress was necessarily an unqualified gain: for instance, in discussing the civilizing of American savages, he saw a diminution of their courage as well as an increase in their moral goodness.

By the time Zurbarán was in his 50s, Seville was suffering an economic crisis as a result of a diminution in trade with America and of the wars in Europe, further worsened by a plague in 1649, to which he lost his son Juan, a promising still-life painter.

As elongated shape favor a diminution of floods because tributaries flow into the main stream at greater intervals of time and space.