Sentence examples for diminish criticism from inspiring English sources

To diminish criticism on Japan's immigration policy, Japan became one of the largest UNHCR donors.

But he sought to diminish such criticism by portraying his offer in the context of a much larger initiative to bring international film studios to Rio. "We consider this to be an industry that's important for the city," he said.

Aswany's new prominence did not diminish his criticism of the regime: he was one of the founders of Kifaya, a heroically rag-tag anti-Mubarak coalition composed of Nasserists, socialists, liberals, and assorted others who, in 2004, began to stage protests against the government — usually a hundred people at most, ringed by far larger crowds of state security police in riot gear.

The dinner demonstrates that the owner of the Sun's political pulling power has not been diminished by criticism in the Leveson report on the future of press regulation that politicians have had an unhealthily close relationship with the press.

Nor did the criticisms diminish after the settlement terms were announced.

Russian criticism diminished after Mr. Obama reconfigured the proposal to use smaller interceptors.

Each little piece of good, each interesting suggestion, each talking point in the gender equality debate, runs the risk of being derided and diminished by relentless criticism.

But, once you put your foot on the gas, these criticisms diminish in the rapidly receding distance.

In contrast to his admirers, California Chrome's image was somewhat diminished by the criticism that followed Coburn's post-Belmont comments.

The first is that if we use a scattergun technique for criticism, we diminish the salience of any individual charge.

But one former senior official said such criticism had diminished as the administration sought to move aggressively against Al Qaeda.