It held its ground as the genre diminished in popularity and the majority of soaps vanished.
The western diminished in popularity during the last decades of the 20th century.
Developing with 3 Nc3 has diminished in popularity in recent years because of the success of the Nimzo-Indian Defense, 3... Bb4.
Despite the rise of a new wave of digital technology, good old-fashioned linear TV viewing is showing no signs of diminishing in popularity.
Even though the sport diminished in popularity, boxing remained a constant in Las Vegas, through the high times and the recession that hit in 2008.
The Labor Day parade was canceled by Thomas Van Arsdale, the new head of the New York City Central Labor Council, who explained that it had diminished in popularity.
Both nationally and locally, golf as a means of passing time would appear to be diminishing in popularity rather than escalating.
While airline loyalty programs are diminishing in popularity, hotel loyalty programs are increasingly valued by travelers and by hotel companies themselves.
"We will have to see whether landlords try to pass their higher costs on, whether buy-to-let property investment diminishes in popularity and whether tenants are able to afford further increases in rents," he said.
In the years since then, even when Ali was a worldwide personality after his brutal brawls with Joe Frazier and George Foreman, boxing has gradually diminished in popularity as baseball, professional football and basketball, college basketball, hockey, golf, tennis, auto racing and the Olympics have grown.
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