Sentence examples for diminished before from inspiring English sources

Alas, officialdom is blind to such forethought, and so the last game of the season, played to a global audience, is diminished before it starts.

Immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated that the colocalisation of the scaffolding proteins nestin, LRP-4, dystrophin and rapsyn were diminished before post-synaptic receptors in the gastrocnemius, and the degree of loss differed between proteins.

The depression gradually diminished before losing its identity over eastern Georgia on August 17.

As the chart below shows, Clinton's substantial lead in the Badger State had already greatly diminished before October 28.

These results are consistent with studies reported at the physiological, transcriptional and enzyme activity levels, which indicated that the capability of grapes to perform photosynthesis diminished before véraison and during the ripening process [ 47, 70, 71].

One possible explanation of this phenomenon is that, in addition to their own experience, people may need repeated confirmation from others that the practice of corruption has diminished before their opinions about corruption are likely to change.

In pure chalks (Stevns Klint and Mons) however, the creep response is characterized by a time lag, where creep initially diminishes before a tertiary-like creep develops.

I've got to find them.' " The biggest laughs yet, so loud that he must wait for them to diminish before continuing.

I've got to find them.' " The biggest laughs yet, so loud that he has to wait for them to diminish before continuing.

As a former battered wife, I had to struggle to define this new reality in my life, which others sought to dismiss or diminish, before I found the courage to leave my marriage.

Les Campbell, the Middle East director of N.D.I., recently told me that the organization's foreign staff was in Amman, Jordan, waiting for the violence to diminish before returning to Baghdad, where the Iraqi staff continues to work.