"This usually meant a diminished focus on the students that [needed] attention the most and increased focus on bumping students who were on the cusps into the proficiency and above proficiency levels.
The analysts who say a war with Iraq should not diminish investors' focus on the stock market are not advising a headlong rush into equities.
The vote will be the first under a new electoral law that supporters say will diminish the focus on sect and allow a wider range of candidates to run.
Dealing with it at work can diminish your focus and derail your productivity, initiating a vicious cycle of perpetual stress.
There's little point worrying about that, in case it diminishes your focus on what you're trying to do.
At times all perform a unison adagio but as the number of pairs diminishes, the focus is clearly on the lifts and eddies of movement of the main couple.
For me the "E" in "FE" has always been of primary importance – diminishing the focus on education in favour of skills will do long-term damage to the young people we serve.
The lackluster sales job, combined with recent controversial tweets and public statements targeting the media, has diminished the focus on the president's leading legislative priority at a key juncture in the Senate, allies and analysts say.
"The lackluster sales job, combined with recent controversial tweets and public statements targeting the media, has diminished the focus on the president's leading legislative priority at a key juncture in the Senate, allies and analysts say," John writes.
Once you start adding in other principles, then you're diminishing that focus". Nick Woodall, from the Centre for Separated Families, welcomed the government's proposals.
Voting is negatively related to the fraction of immigrants in an area, and, in contrast to results for volunteering, this effect does not diminish when focusing on larger cities.
