This approach, in its passive way, diminishes and controls as effectively as many more aggressive gestures.
On a range of issues, including perhaps the biggest big-picture question facing the United States — how it might lead in a world over which it has diminishing influence and control — we've been treated to a full-throated debate and meaningful choices.
Amazon Web Services acknowledges that there are plenty of app containers or platform-as-a-service solutions available today, but claims they not only reduce the amount of programming required but also significantly "diminish developers' flexibility and control".
Nadal said the only thing that the change achieved was to "level things," by diminishing the mobility and control of players used to sliding on a normal clay court.
That's the impact of its bailout package, with its banking sector diminished and capital controls preventing Cypriots from withdrawing large sums of money from their accounts.
They commonly feel, in varying degrees, a sense of vulnerability and diminished control over their lives and future, and perceive themselves as "different" from healthy peers and siblings.
Prostitutes waive their right to sexual autonomy because their jobs place them under contractual obligations to have sex, and thus diminish their control over when and with whom they have sex.
As temperatures rise and water supplies dry up, farmers and herders are fighting to gain and control diminishing arable land and water (Baldauf 2006).
Nair, 61, "shows an impairment of judgment and insight and diminished self-control and sense of responsibility," due to "alcohol superimposed on a longstanding condition caused by alcohol dependency," the doctors decided, Lee said.
Speaking up, instead of remaining silent, is a way to confront our fear and diminish its control over us.
