Sentence examples for diminished if not from inspiring English sources

Cruz is deeply unpopular in his own party and Trump is diminished if not yet vanquished.

And the stigma of being laid off has certainly diminished, if not disappeared altogether.

The other half's legitimacy, even its existence, must be diminished, if not outright denied.

With music education so diminished, if not nonexistent, in public schools, what is a parent to do?

If you're a newspaper or magazine joining a recognised regulator then – stick and carrot – your legal cost risks may be diminished; if not, they're on an escalator.

Following parliament's decision to block military intervention in Syria, there were dire warnings that the UK was diminished, if not finished, as a credible world power.

The paradox is that if such unmediated expression were ever possible, it would diminish, if not altogether obliterate, literature.

The major television networks are pulling some of their top talent out of Minnesota, promising to diminish, if not upend, coverage of the convention.

Cruise passengers, they say, jam the streets, cause long lines at restaurants and attractions, and otherwise threaten to diminish if not destroy the city's laid-back style.

The "rapidly diminishing, if not disappearing, zone of privacy for public officials," in the words of Alan Brinkley, a historian at Columbia University.

It also could diminish, if not end outright, the single biggest sticking point in relations between Russia and the West, Moscow's dogged opposition to NATO's plans to expand into the Baltics, bringing the alliance more decisively to Russia's borders.