Such was the great communicator's final broadcast: he was a transparently diminished figure.
It would cut a greatly diminished figure on the world stage.
GEORGE BUSH returned to the Middle East this week a diminished figure.
If it opts to leave, what remains of Britain will cut a greatly diminished figure on the world stage.
The Ramphele who became the DA's presidential candidate on Tuesday is a slightly diminished figure, not the glittering political Superwoman of a year ago.
His closest advisers insisted that there was no single silver bullet that precipitated a change in mood from his bullish, predictable attacks on the British media and the US justice system on Saturday to the contrite, diminished figure standing on the dais on Tuesday.
In Slc39a13-KO chondrocytype type 10 collagen RNA (Col10a1), a marker for hypertrophic chondrocytes, was diminished (Figure 1E, upper).
As expected, following oxygen exposure the ability of the beads to generate C12-resorufin fluorescence was diminished (Figure 3b).
When N-Mis17 was overproduced by REP41, the cell number increase was diminished (Figure 2F) and the cell viability sharply declined (Figure 2G) after 14 h.
We found that anti-apoptotic factors were increased in nm23-M1−/− virgin glands protein extracts as compared to WT, whereas proapoptotic factors were diminished (Figure 2A).
After ten minutes of chase, colocalization of transferrin and GFP-Dmknδ5 strongly diminished (Figure 5A, 10 min, arrowheads), and was no longer noticeable after 15 minutes of uptake.
