This view was maintained with only gradually diminishing conviction for at least another 50 years.
Despite the rising tide of revisionist thinking, other scholars of the Dead Sea scrolls continue to defend the Essene hypothesis, though with some modifications and diminishing conviction.
Mr. Bush's aides chose to interpret the ambiguous remark as an example of the senator's sometimes deadpan humor, and it did not diminish their conviction, shared by many Republican operatives, that the Texas governor had accomplished something important today.
An interesting factor influencing decisions to introduce CFs was the notion of 'eating off the shelf'; if the baby was already on formula this appeared to diminish the conviction of waiting until six months to introduce CFs.
Frank Sulloway of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michael Shermer of California State University conducted a study which found in their polling sample of "credentialed" U.S. adults (12% had Ph.Ds and 62% were college graduates) 64% believed in God, and there was a correlation indicating that religious conviction diminished with education level.
Risk was lower among those with previous criminal convictions and diminished as the number of previous convictions increased, with prolific offenders, having the lowest suicide risk.
Mr. Manafort's conviction cannot be diminished by arguing, as Mr. Trump and his coterie are fond of doing, that the misconduct was unrelated to the Trump campaign or Russian "collusion". On the contrary, the trial evidence included Mr. Manafort's close ties to pro-Russia forces and his desperate financial straits as he "volunteered" his time for the next president.
They also tend to treat all felons badly after their convictions, diminishing the rights and benefits of citizenship in other areas (voting and licensing).
She did obtain compensation for her wrongful conviction and incarceration, but it diminished quickly amid having to move more than once and paying back people who had helped.
Barry's bravado diminished after the Daily Mail dug up a 1966 conviction for tax fraud, for which he'd been fined and sentenced to a year in prison.
"Our passion and conviction to better serve Chicago customers has not diminished," Mr. Bisio said.
