Sentence examples for diminished emphasis from inspiring English sources

However, the technical possibilities of palliative care with concentration on quality of life also brought about a "diminished emphasis on the good death" [ 45].

Yet it is a shell of its former self because Lucent has placed diminishing emphasis on basic research, and many scientists have left to work at technology start-ups and other ventures.

The voice of the barn owl, depending on who is trying to get it on paper, is "a weird scream; a nasal snore; a loud, prolonged rasping s_ksck;_ a series of notes click, click, click, click, click, resembling in character the notes of a Katydid, but delivered with diminishing emphasis and shortening intervals during the end of the series".

Executives say that Mr. Arnold clashed with Mr. Ospel on many issues, including the diminishing emphasis that UBS was placing on investment banking and its growing focus on private banking and asset management for individuals and firms -- the traditional mainstays of Swiss banks.

The voice of the barn owl, depending on who is trying to get it on paper, is "a weird scream; a nasal snore; a loud, prolonged rasping sksck; a series of notes click, click, click, click, click, resembling in character the notes of a Katydid, but delivered with diminishing emphasis and shortening intervals during the end of the series".

Past experiences prove that this often leads to employee turnover, priority reallocation, and sometimes diminishing emphasis on formerly core competencies.

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.

Appearing two years later in "On the Road," he was celebrated by Kerouac as having "the tremendous energy of a new kind of American saint," and then, toward the end of the book, diminished (with emphasis) as "the HOLY GOOF," a wanderer incapable of fulfilling his obligations as a father and husband.