Sentence examples for badly diminished from inspiring English sources

It has overwhelmed the badly diminished Communist Party, which emerged from each of the last two parliamentary elections with the largest single bloc of seats.

A watershed moment in the history of the modern initiative occurred in 1978, with the passage of California's famous Proposition 13, which drastically cut property taxes and ushered in an era of badly diminished public services.

The experience of covering the war on terrorism, with its various tributaries at home and abroad, has reignited a professional pride that had been, for numerous journalists, badly diminished or lost.

Out of 450,000 acres of sugarcane grown south of the Lake, scientists believe about 100,000 acres is necessary to create water storage sufficient to the task of cleansing and limiting the massive pulses to both Florida coasts and to protect the Everglades and badly diminished Florida Bay.

Obama and Clinton inherited two unwinnable wars, a toxic international atmosphere in which America was reviled where it wasn't ignored, and a badly diminished stock of national power.

The withering response to these reports provides some sense of Musharraf's badly diminished stature in Pakistan: one well-known journalist, Murtaza Solangi, seized on the last detail with a stinging proclamation of disbelief.

In the novel the dog is more closely identified with the father, who is hurt badly in a mining accident and returns in a severely diminished state.

Outgunned by the African Union force (Amisom), its ability to wage a conventional war seriously diminished and having suffered huge losses, al-Shabab's badly mauled combat units pulled out of the battered capital they have struggled to control since early 2007.

"From 2008, membership diminished quite badly," Johnson said.

Recounting his youth when he fished for octopus off the waters of Waihee (literally 'octopus waters'), Fisher tells of how the land had become badly degraded, native fauna diminished and, by the late 1980s the entire 277-acre stretch of wilderness was (unsuccessfully) slated for development into a private destination golf course.

So badly has the bee population been diminished that in California, the important almond crop now requires more than one-third of all the domesticated bees in the United States for pollination.