The jury rejected his case that his responsibility was diminished because of his mental disorder, the judges were told.
We may be unequal in terms of power but it doesn't mean our rights are diminished because of it.
She also emphasises that "many of our options have been diminished because of the downturn in the economy".
"It would have been horrible for the girls to see a situation in which their mother's life had been diminished because of the divorce," Ms. Brooke said.
Its forces are diminished because of Franck Ribéry's red card in the first leg, and Danijel Pranic is also suspended.
In general, the number of eggs produced by oviparous species greatly exceeds the number of offspring from species that bear live young, but the chances of survival are diminished because of the lack of maternal protection.
Filgrastim (granulocyte colony-stimulating factor [G-CSF]) is used to stimulate the production of white blood cells, which prevents infection in patients whose white blood cells are diminished because of the effects of anticancer drugs.
But he added that the Bush Administration's options for dealing with that threat are diminished, because of a lack of good intelligence and also because "we've cried wolf" before.
Extinction occurs when species are diminished because of environmental forces (habitat fragmentation, global change, overexploitation of species for human use) or because of evolutionary changes in their members (genetic inbreeding, poor reproduction, decline in population numbers).
In the ninth, some in the crowd, which was diminished because of the heat and the 6-2 stood, stood and applauded as Beltran came to bat for the last time.
