Water supply has diminished and the health and livelihoods of thousands been jeopardised.
"The LRA's strength has diminished and the remaining force, including Kony, are on the run".
Edwards rejects the perception that Chrebet's role is being diminished, and the numbers support the coach.
The cancer in Marie's lung is diminished, and the family is hopeful.
His fastball was diminished, and the Giants kept him in trouble all game.
Once the Soviet Union had collapsed, though, the stakes seemed diminished and the framework redundant.
This week the president looks abruptly diminished and the choice of plausible Republican challengers correspondingly wider.
The pleasurable, eye-popping sense of surprise has diminished, and the teasingly referential attitude shows signs of fatigue.
The level of hand-wringing diminished, and the willingness to act improved somewhat, during Clinton's second term.
But the access programme will be severely diminished, and the course Duggleby followed is not taking enrolments.
"The seriousness of the crimes is diminished, and the fact and the appearance of even-handed justice is compromised".
