The diminishing chances that the assembly would complete its work before the presidential election appear to be what motivated the Brotherhood last week to break its promise and run its own presidential candidate, Khairat el-Shater.
Saurav Ganguly then extinguished England's diminishing chances by having an increasingly static Fairbrother caught behind for 30, and then snaffling Mark Ealham, caught at slip by Mohammad Azharuddin, third ball for a duck.
Bernie Sanders acknowledged "an uphill climb" ahead of him in the Democratic nomination race on Sunday, but vowed to continue battling against Hillary Clinton despite his diminishing chances of catching her.
But that doesn't mean the filmmakers are happy with the current landscape and diminishing chances for a theatrical window.
Because cardiovascular complications of diabetes shorten survival, this diminishes chances of detecting any mortality excess from PES. Luckily, this bias can still be addressed by Slettedal et al. (2015), because causes of death are generally obtainable for valid research purposes.
But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has refused to make any serious compromises, and the two-state solution seems to have a diminishing chance of ever happening.
This means that, as this market matures, individual businesses have a diminishing chance to actually compete and gain search market share.
For the reasons listed above, there is a diminishing chance of a plan emerging that will satisfy the company's creditors and stakeholders, whilst leaving it fit for purpose on the playing field.
The leaks both magnified the possibility of relationship conflict and diminished the chances of open dissent.
The stakes-raising escalation of budgets and ticket prices has diminished the chances of such small, potent pleasures.
The bullying tone the president adopted in his diplomacy at the United Nations diminished his chances of U.N. support.
