Sentence examples for diminished duties from inspiring English sources

Once he was placed under investigation, Colonel Saleh was reassigned to what Mr. Waple said were diminished duties, and his access to government computers and e-mail systems was suspended.

See also diminished responsibility.

Lane says Ellison pushed him out, diminishing his duties and assuming them himself.

Pretended flight as a device for luring an unjust enemy into an ambush can be right in a just war, but lying to the enemy is wrong, although its gravity is much diminished by the duty not to reveal the truth to the enemy, a duty compatible with the coexisting duty not to lie.

In the dining room, his duties have diminished.

But the desire to reinvent this team as a possession-based, free-flowing, attack-minded side, channelling the ball through Cabaye's tidy touches in midfield, had long since blurred the focus on defensive duties and diminished the emphasis placed on the basics Millen was charged with overseeing.

Sovereignty can never be diminished by fulfilling this duty.

The employee retention plan offers enhanced benefits, including cash and faster vesting of stock options and other equity awards, to any Yahoo employees who are fired or leave because their duties or responsibilities are diminished after a merger.

Louis XVIII's role in politics from the Hundred Days onward was voluntarily diminished; he resigned most of his duties to his council.

Analysts said that with the advent of electronic trading and the increased restrictions on research analysts, the role had diminished for the equity sales agent, whose primary duty has been to market the firm's research to institutional investors.

To ride out future economic slumps, it allowed the foreign creditors to collect customs duties from other Greek ports if the intake at Piraeus, the main port, diminished.