Since LegCo is a mixture of popularly elected delegates and representatives of "functional constituencies" (professional, commercial and other interest groups), its powers already weak are attenuated further by questions over its legitimacy.
He was an artist, a delicate, attenuated figure who drew his inspiration from the pages of Marcel Proust, the paintings of Braque, Matisse, Picasso and van Gogh, and the counsels of his assistant, Loulou de la Falaise.
Then a larger study in which Dr Wakefield was involved produced evidence that children with the new syndrome had measles viruses in their guts more often than healthy children did.The measles component of MMR consists of living, though "attenuated", viruses so the implication was that this was the source of the viruses in the children's guts.
For one thing, the primary calendar is much more attenuated than in recent years.
In six out of the past seven quarters, household spending grew by 0.4% or less, well below its long-term average rate of 0.7%.The Bank of England has argued for some time that the link between the housing market and consumption has attenuated.
Zev Yaroslavsky, who sponsored the 1998 measure, now believes the attenuated Red Line ought to be extended along the Wilshire corridor.One reason for the change of heart is that Los Angeles has learned to make other people pay for its pipe dreams.
But officials in several of the offending states have suggested that the attention they will win from candidates and the media outweighs any penalties the RNC may choose to impose.All this has left the primary calendar oddly patchy and attenuated.
Government discrimination against the Shia may have attenuated slightly in recent years, but they are still looked upon with suspicion including by their Sunni peers, who claim they are doing Iran's bidding.
A painfully attenuated process of prisoner-of-war exchanges is almost finished: Iraq is now thought to be holding fewer than 1,000 Iranians, though Iran probably has more Iraqis.But, squirming under American scrutiny, the Iranians feel obliged to place strict limits on this co-operation.
Which is more likely: that such attitudes would simply vanish with the stroke of Lyndon Johnson's pen, or that they would continue, admittedly weakened and attenuated, in different forms?
Its American and British counterparts may be right in judging that inflation expectations will be attenuated by an economic slowdown, and flexible labour and product markets.
