The judge also said the defense was partly to blame for its predicament, writing that Mr. Gerhartsreiter's "calculated efforts to court media attention diminish the argument" for moving the trial.
It was part of the flash, but now that many of those guys are either trying to get extensions on their unemployment or telecommuting at home, the need to gain attention has diminished.
We also addressed the question of whether the effects of exogenous attention were diminished for the no-reward trials in a reward context, as compared to the no-reward trials in a no-reward context.
Their attention is diminishing.
Also, factors that are successful attract the kind of attention that diminishes their market-beating potential.
Thoreau, of course, attempted to use his year in the woods to bring to our attention the diminishing adherence to any sort of transcendent human values as we veered into unmitigated materialism in the wake of the industrial revolution.
ESPN is so afraid of our attention spans diminishing that they'd rather focus hours and hours of airtime on broad topics (Alex Rodriguez's slump) and insane questions ("If you were to do a Broadway show on Mark Sanchez as a Jet QB this year, what kind of play would it be?") instead of stuff that's actually interesting and important (the NHL lockout).
However, it is unknown whether some of the influenza-attributable pneumococcal infection might have been underestimated, because S. pneumoniae might follow influenza after a lag period, and a delay in the request for medical attention might diminish the sensitivity of diagnostic tests for influenza.
Pay special attention to diminishing their impression of the depth of your understanding and to starting a discussion of the problems instead.
The ad counteracts diminished attention spans, Mr. Berman said.
"We all have diminished attention spans," he said.
