After several of his wealthier, long-time clients scaled back their involvement or passed away, Lukas downsized his operation out of necessity in recent years, but the reduction in the number of horses in his barn hasn't diminished his skill in spotting promising prospects and cultivating them into star runners.
It is not my intent to diminish, in any way, the wondrous skills of the players on the L.P.G.A. Tour, but if the basis of the tournament is to determine the best golfer, man or woman, then the parameters should be the same for each golfer.
Those skills did not diminish in his year abroad, as Kirilenko leads the Timberwolves in minutes, rebounds, blocks and field goal percentage, and is second in points, assists and steals.
Much of that is a result of poorly coordinated care, poor communication, patients falling through the cracks, knowledge not being transferred and so on, but some part of it is surely from failing to listen to the story and diminishing skill in reading the body as a text.
The differences were subtle, and the new research does not prove that high blood pressure diminishes cognitive skills in children.
The differences diminish in magnitude and significance as time since graduation increases, consistent with one prediction from the theory that diversity in academic skills will be more relevant to entrepreneurial entry when not much time has elapsed since graduation.
I'm not diminishing the skill involved, mind - that was a textbook volley.
The danger, of course, is that time at the bench will diminish bedside skills.
But that in no way diminishes the extraordinary skill and courage of the workers who Winter has photographed for us.
The encoded message assumes that black chefs, cooks, and cookbook authors - by virtue of their race and gender - are simply born with good kitchen instincts, diminished knowledge, skills and abilities involved in their work, and portrays them as passive and ignorant laborers incapable of creative culinary artistry".
Individuals who suffer a right-hemisphere stroke or develop the neurodegenerative disease frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can experience debilitating behavioral changes, diminished motor skills, and a marked reduction in social interaction skills.
